The 10 Best Delivery Chocolate Boxes of 2025
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A chocolate Box is not a substitute for true love. But sometimes it's close enough. And as aphrodisiacs go, it's a whole lot prettier than oysters. Procuring the most exquisite chocolate once required dedicated travel or a vision quest, but these days the country's best chocolate can be sent to your doorstep within days.
Sometimes, only the best will do. We've tasted dozens of the finest chocolate boxes available anywhere in the United States and convened a panel of chocolate experts and dedicated enthusiasts—some might say, obsessives—to find the very finest boxes of delivery chocolate for every need and every palate.
But note that much of the best chocolate can be fragile, susceptible to both time and temperature. Most we recommend are as fresh as they come, available only from the chocolate sellers themselves, shipped on expedited schedules and made within days of shipping to ensure freshness. Each is best stored in cool temperatures and eaten within a week of arrival.
From stalwarts of French tradition and the purest single-origin chocolate to impossibly textured bonbons and true mavericks of cacao, here are our favorite delivery chocolate boxes in the country.
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Who Are the Tasting Panel?
The panel in January 2025 consisted of four tasters with long experience in the food world as critics, chocolate experts, chocolate festival or tasting organizers, and specialty purveyors. We included no chocolate makers or distributors, to rule out conflicts of interest.
Matthew Korfhage, who organized the tasting, is a writer and reviewer for WIRED with more than a decade’s experience as a food critic and food writer on both coasts and a long habit of sourcing bean-to-bar chocolate at the country's most renowned stores, as well as reporting on the occasional chocolate scandal or German chocolate club trend.
French-born Estelle Tracy is one of few who can credibly claim the title of “chocolate sommelier,” a Philadelphia-area writer and consultant on all matters chocolate and founder of the Brandywine Chocolate Society. She has hosted hundreds of chocolate tastings, both online and in person, and specializes in pairing wine and chocolate.
Barb Genuario is a founder of the Midwest Craft Chocolate Festival, a trained chocolate judge, and a consultant to other chocolate festivals. She is also cofounder of the DC Chocolate Society and is a globe-crossing chocolate lover who documents her chocolate-related travels online.
Jessie Mooberry is a proprietress of farm-to-table café and bakery Farmer & Co. west of Philadelphia, where she retails specialty goods that include chocolate and regularly provides space for chocolate tastings—including WIRED’s January tasting panel.
Other Delivery Chocolate Boxes We Enjoyed
Uzma Chocolat's Signature Exotic Box for $49: Hailing from Chicago, this was one of a few to arrive after the date for our January tasting panel—and so couldn't be included in our top picks. But among the latecomers, it was a contender: an enrobed box filled with intense but balanced South Asian flavors, and a rare chocolate box to advertise itself as halal. A ginger bonbon skewed a little intense, but a date-plum “khajoor” was a quiet riot of texture and flavor, and the tea flavors of lapsang and assam provided lovely and delicate accents.
Lily & Sparrow's Bonbons for $45: At less than a year old, North Jersey's tiny Lily & Sparrow was a strong favorite of a couple members of the tasting panel. Chocolatier Amanda Sanabria has a wonderful gift, in particular, at crafting intense bursts of fruit flavor in bonbons that included passionfruit and lemon pistachio. While not quite as complex as similar bonbons from Melissa Coppel or Kreuther, Lily's mastery of fruit filling puts it on a very short list. “Verdict is: This is one chocolatier to watch,” wrote one taster after the panel.
Vesta Chocolate's “Forever” Collection for $49: Also from North Jersey near New York, bean-to-bar chocolate maker Vesta was favored by a couple members of our panel for its emphasis on delivering dark-chocolate wallop in its glossy couverture bonbons. Tasters prized chocolate maker Roger Rodriguez's true “bean-to-bonbon” character in this collection, and a champagne bonbon in particular was a highlight of the tasting, though not every flavor stood out as much. Vesta stood close to Dandelion and Cluizel in strongly highlighting dark chocolate flavors.
AndSons 24-Piece Chocolate Box for $75: As befits a legacy Beverly Hills chocolatier, this is a beautifully packaged box, a mix of glossy bonbons and chocolate-enrobed squares. The molded bonbons made the biggest impression, whether a bright passionfruit, orange, and guava or a rich speculoos patterned after a gingerbread biscuit. The box didn't grab me by the lapels and demand to be remembered, but I'd be happy anytime to receive it: It's a lovely and accomplished box, absent flaws and off notes.
United Flavors 24-Piece Chocolatier's Selection for $89: This was another late arrival, and so it missed assessment by our full tasting panel. But this tiny and quite new Virginia chocolatier kept cropping back up in my thoughts, especially for an immaculately fluffy vanilla soufflé square with texture somewhere between sea-foam and cloud: There's little like it. Molded bonbons were also lovely and deft, if not quite up to the subtle complexity of Melissa Coppel or the trompe-la-langue lulz of Kreuther.
Eclat 16-Piece Signature Assortment for $48: A favorite of Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert, Eclat is a Pennsylvania brand with a wide and inventive selection of treats that include Frank Lloyd Wright–themed chocolate bars and wafer-thin chocolate "Mondiants" of chocolatier Christopher Curtin's own invention. This said, the box we preferred most was the simple enrobed squares and spheres of the signature assortment, prone to culinary flavors such as Sichuan or Aleppo pepper, or the light gush of beer or booze.
Boxes We Don’t Recommend
Compartés' 20-Piece Signature Truffles Gift Box for $59: Compartés is best known for its wackily creative candy bars, which may contain the tastes and flavors of doughnuts and coffee, a perfect s'more, or a whole cereal aisle—a popularity that's been cosigned by a Vanity Fair party's worth of celebrities. Their handsomely packaged truffles didn't make the same impression.
Forté’s 24-piece Signature Truffles ($110) and Exquisito's 24-Piece Artisan Collection: Washington State's Forté and Florida’s Exquisito both come highly praised. Both boxes, alas, arrived at our doorstep in less-than-ideal condition. It's unknown whether problems arose during shipping or at the chocolate company.
Creo 24-Piece Signature Chocolate Collection for $84: Look, I love Creo's inventive and lovely white or dark chocolate bars encrusted with thin wafers of dried strawberry or raspberry, which offer a terrific contrast of rich flavor and bright fruit. But the Portland maker's signature box of mostly enrobed chocolate truffles didn't always seem in control of its flavors and textures—a fatal flaw in a premium-priced collection.