Chipotle Hot Sauce

A chipotle is a jalapeño that has been smoke-dried. That process turns a bright green pepper into something deep and woody, and it produces a flavour raw peppers simply cannot: less spark, more coal.

Crossed The Line is our smoked chipotle sauce. Aged red chipotle up front, a small amount of sugar underneath so the smoke reads slightly sweet, onion and garlic for body, and aged tabasco peppers to sharpen the finish. We rate it Very Hot — four marks on our scale. It earns the higher rating for how the heat lands rather than how high it climbs: lower and rounder than a raw pepper, and it stays on the back of the palate long after something sharper would have gone.

If you like the smell of a grill, this is the bottle. Barbecue, chilli, beans, brisket, burgers — anything that already has char on it. It is the sauce that surprises people most in our range.

Gluten free, 5 FL OZ (148 ML), about 30 servings.