Quite mild with a slight spiciness, this sauce has an excellent depth and interest of flavour that's as at home on pepperoni pizza as it is in lentil soup. I wish it was sold in bigger bottles because I'm 2/3 through in just over a week. To steal a phrase from a different brand of hot sauce, I put that sh*t on everything.
It tastes quite natural and fresh, instead of that hyper-salty, vinegary expectation that you often get with hot sauces. Don't get me wrong, I love that, but this is a different calibre of condiment entirely. I would expect this kind of flavour and texture and freshness from a farmer's market stall, not a commercial manufacturer. This is my first taste of Marie Sharp but it won't be my last, I want to try everything they have now.
A few caveats: take out the plastic nozzle thing in the neck of the bottle. This sauce is for drizzling, not dribbling. Also, I didn't like this sauce on first taste. Could be because I tried it along with the other sauces I received from Chile Mojo at the same time and my palette was over-flavoured, or because I was expecting the more intense commercial sauce flavour, but I'm so glad I gave it another try. It's genuinely different and stand-alone to other hot sauces I've tried - maybe that's Marie Sharp (I'll soon find out!) or maybe it's just this particular sauce, but man. It's a league apart.
Heat level : 5