Okay, happy to share some observations, bearing in mind that tastes in chocolate, like tastes in wine, cars, music, and art are all highly subjective.
My current favorites are the bars from Orfeve, a Swiss chocolate maker who makes elegant, almost graceful chocolates. All of the bars are very good, though I have a particular fondness for the Bejofo Madagascar bar which is lovely and among the best of its kind. I also like any of the Peru bars, with a slight preference for the Alto Piura bar. Many of the bars are available in a "crispy" version, and that means they've added back some of the cocoa nibs. These bars tend to be a bit "darker" tasting (whatever that means) than the regular ones.
Soma is a Toronto-based chocolate maker who makes a wide variety of straight chocolate bars, inclusion bars, and various other vaguely chocolate-adjacent products. With a few exceptions, in general I'm not a fan of inclusion bars as I think they either use inferior chocolate (why bother?) or are totally dominated by the inclusions. That said, the straight-chocolate bars range from very good to outstanding, with favorites being the Old School Dark which ends up being an homage to Sicilian-style chocolates, the Crazy 88, the Bejofo, and the Costa Esmeraldas.
For my tastes, the quality of other chocolate makers is a bit more variable, which some bars great and some, while not quite DNPIM, they do approach that. I highly recommend talking with Pepi and discussing what's in stock/good.
As usual, YMMV and I welcome all comments and suggestions for further chocolate study.
