On Monday, 14th July at 3:00pm, The International Chocolate Awards announced the winners of the 2025 World Craft Drinking Chocolate Competition at a live online ceremony held at Artisan HUB in Bucharest, Romania.
Co-founder Martin Christy announced this year’s winners after 2.5 days of intense in-person and several months of remote judging.
The new Craft Drinking Chocolate competition received over 150 entries, from chocolate makers from all over the world, working with an equally global range of cacao. For our chocolate judges, this was yet another exciting opportunity to see how all the great chocolate-making talent out there translates that into something designed to become a drink.
The competition judged not only chocolate-based drinks, but also cacao infusions and even alcoholic beverages made with cacao.
Judging
The judging panel was a carefully selected group of our most experienced judges with a professional culinary background, who tasted the entries in anonymised judging, together with the permanent members of our Grand Jury.
Scores
The International Chocolate Awards is continuing its drive for transparency and standardisation in chocolate sensory evaluation, using the flavor profiling system from our parent body, the IICCT. As part of this initiative, we are now listing the scores for all winners and finalists, giving consumers a better guide for chocolate quality and entrants something extra to celebrate along with their medals. The scores given are similar to those used in specialty coffee, where 80 and above indicates fine chocolate quality and scores above 90 suggest extraordinary quality and craft. The prize break points are set by the Grand Jury for each category, according to the product type.
Click here to view the 2025 World Craft Drinking Chocolate Grand Jury Finalists.
The 2025 World Craft Drinking Chocolate Winners are:
(Prizes are shown in score order for each medal)
Bebidas de chocolate negro
Plain/origin dark drinking chocolate (made with water)
Gold: Rila Kakao (Thailand) – 72%prachuap Chocolate Drink (90.9) (**)
Silver: Infinite cacao (Thailand) – Dark 66% RayongChan (89.6) (**)
Silver: Rila Kakao (Thailand) – 70%chanthaburi Chocolate Drink (88.3) (**)
Silver: SLOK Chocolate (Hong Kong) – Taiwan Pingtung 70% (87.7) (**)
Silver: SLOK Chocolate (Hong Kong) – Thailand 70% (87.7) (**)
Bronze: SLOK Chocolate (Hong Kong) – Peru Piura 71% (86.6) (**)
Bronze: Rila Kakao (Thailand) – 70%chiangmai Chocolate Drink (86.4) (**)
Bronze: AHERZ (Austria) – Ritualkakao – 100% Kakao (86.0) (**)
Bronze: Oligin (Thailand) – Sri Saket 78 (85.5) (**)
Plain/origin dark drinking chocolate (prepared with milk)
Gold: Rila Kakao (Thailand) – 70%chanthaburi Milk Chocolate Drink (89.7) (**)
Silver: CHAROENDEE CHOCOLATE (Thailand) – Rainy Bliss Dark 70% (88.1) (**)
Silver: Nana Craft Chocolate (Thailand) – ์nana ‘nan’ Origin Dark 70% (88.0) (**)
Silver: Charlee (Thailand) – Kamphaeng Phet 75% (87.8) (**)
Silver: Goodbeans (Thailand) – Goodbeans Nan Origin (87.8)
Silver: AfterChoc.Chocolate (Thailand) – Signature Blend 75% ,Thailand (87.7) (**)
Silver: chocoTales of Warsaw (Poland) – Dark 70% Philipines Regalo (87.3) (**)
Silver: Infinite cacao (Thailand) – Dark 72% Rayong Signature (87.2) (**)
+ Special: Alternate sugars
Silver: CHAROENDEE CHOCOLATE (Thailand) – Cozy Winter Dark 75% (87.2) (**)
Silver: AfterChoc.Chocolate (Thailand) – Nanthaburi Blend Dark Chocolate 75% (87.2) (**)
Bronze: Rila Kakao (Thailand) – 70%chiangmai Milk Chocolate Drink (86.7) (**)
Bronze: Rila Kakao (Thailand) – 72%prachaup Milk Chocolate Drink (86.6) (**)
Bronze: AllYouWant (China) – 70% Ecuador Dark Drinking Chocolate (86.6) (**)
Bronze: SLOK Chocolate (Hong Kong) – Mexico 70% (86.6) (**)
Bronze: Chocoholic Thailand (Thailand) – Phatthalung 75% Dark Chocolate (86.2) (**)
Bronze: Aroko Chocolate (Italy) – Chuao D.O.C.C. 74% (86.1) (**)
Bronze: Charlee (Thailand) – Tak 75% (86.1) (**)
Bronze: Charlee (Thailand) – Central North 75% (86.1) (**)
Bronze: San Marzano x Noir Chocolate Bar (Thailand) – Chonburi (86.0) (**)
Bronze: Oligin (Thailand) – Sri Saket 78M (86.0) (**)
Bronze: Casa Kakau (Bulgaria) – Drinking Chocolate 70% (86.0) (**)
Bronze: San Marzano x Noir Chocolate Bar (Thailand) – Sisaket (85.9) (**)
Bronze: Rio Nuevo Chocolate (United Kingdom) – 60% Drinking Chocolate (85.9)
Bronze: Sakulthai chocolate (Thailand) – Surin 80% (85.8) (**)
Bronze: San Marzano x Noir Chocolate Bar (Thailand) – Krabi (85.7) (**)
Bronze: San Marzano x Noir Chocolate Bar (Thailand) – Nakhon Si Thammarat (85.5) (**)
Flavoured dark drinking chocolate (prepared with water)
Gold: Choc-A-Dii (Thailand) – ‘choco Roselle’ Flavor Dark 60% (90.4) (**)
+ Special: Ingredients
Flavoured dark drinking chocolate (prepared with milk)
Gold: Chocoholic Thailand (Thailand) – Phatthalung Harmony Trang Red Pepper (88.3) (**)
+ Special: Local ingredients
Silver: Solkiki Chocolatemaker (United Kingdom) – 54% Pineapple Fig Leaf Drinking Chocolat (87.3) (**)
+ Special: Vegan
Bronze: Kaori Kakao (Thailand) – Ichigo Berries Flavor Dark 73% (86.6) (**)
Bronze: Alex Yu (Taiwan) – Mu Pingtung Cocoa & Shanlinxi Oolong Tea (86.5) (**)
Bronze: Maria Magdalena Bizgan (Romania) – Salty Cinnamon Dark Chocolate (86.4)
Bronze: Allo Simonne (Canada) – Chocolat Chaud 61% À L’érable Et Tonka (86.3) (**)
Bronze: Alex Yu (Taiwan) – MU Pingtung Cocoa Yuenyeung Drinking (86.2) (**)
Bebidas de chocolate con leche
Plain/origin milk drinking chocolate (with milk chocolate/milk powder)
Bronze: Chocoholic Thailand (Thailand) – RuenRom (85.6) (**)
Flavoured milk drinking chocolate (with milk chocolate/milk powder)
Bronze: Flow Cacao roasters (Bulgaria) – Drinking Chocolate 60% With Coconut Milk (85.7) (**)
White drinking chocolate
Gold: Alex Yu (Taiwan) – Mu Shanlinxi Oolong Tea White Chocolate (90.7) (**)
+ Special: Local ingredients
Plain/origin cocoa powder drinks (prepared with milk)
Silver: Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – Almendra Blanca Hot Cocoa (87.0) (**)
Bronze: Sa-rarn Chocolate (Thailand) – Cacao Powder (86.5) (**)
Bronze: Goodnow Farms Chocolate (United States) – El Carmen Hot Cocoa (86.2) (**)
Infusiones
Infusiones de cacao o té
Gold: CHAROENDEE CHOCOLATE (Thailand) – Charoen-tea by Charoendee: Shiny Star (91.7) (**)
+ Special: Ingredients
Silver: 可愛巧坊 (Taiwan) – 可可露cocoa Dew (87.6) (**)
Silver: CHAROENDEE CHOCOLATE (Thailand) – Charoen-tea by Charoendee: a Day in Siam (87.0) (**)
Bronze: Charlee (Thailand) – House Blend Cocoa Tea (86.5) (**)
Alcoholic drinks
Las bebidas alcohólicas / licores hechos con chocolate o cacao
Gold: Eden Reserve Cacao Royale (Grenada) – Eden Reserve PhytoMed Honey Cacao Bitter (88.8) (**)
+ Special: Biome
+ Special: Innovation
Bronze: A-TYPICA (France) – Liqueur de Cacao (86.4) (**)
(*) Declared chocolate maker for private label bars.
(**) Winner has declared the product is made with their own bean-to-bar chocolate or couverture.
