Amazon Chipotle Hot Sauce Review

Amazon Chipotle 

Note: In July 2025, I found another set of these, which had been unavailable for quite some time. They packaging and bottle labels had been significantly and gorgeously revamped, with an Amazon jungle animal, and some brief information about them, being tied to a sauce. The animal for this sauce is the capuchin monkey. As it had been 12 years and many hundreds of other sauces since I initially reviewed them, I didn't recall the sauce(s) exactly, only that I vaguely remembered liking about half of this set. I therefore went into it with a fresh set of lenses, so to speak, and an open mind. Some of the sauces bore up exactly as I initially reviewed them and others did not. I have left the initial reviews of all here for posterity, as it was a reflection of the sauce(s) at that time and have noted when my impressions changed during the filming for the FOH series, which will be linked above when available.

This is the third entry in an Amazon hot sauce 4 pack I got a while back from putting together a free shipping order. The other two entries (both reviewed elsewhere here) went 1 - 1, with the Mango being wretched and the Green sauce being somewhat interesting, enough so that it's one that I consider worthwhile. With the score tied overall for the box, it's now on to the Chipotle.

I actually opened this one before the Green sauce from last week, but the Green sauce was something I could pick up on right away and wanted to review that right away. For this one, despite it's apparent simplicity (sort of a liquified version of McCormick's Chipotle powder), I wanted to kick it around a bit more first.

There are no hidden subtleties or complexities here. This is more or less chipotle flavoring in vinegar. It has the attendant degree of spiciness (as in not much) for that type of pepper and even though it's based in vinegar, by far the dominant characteristic is that smoke. So, a little goes a long way, but unlike the liquified adobo sauce from Wicked Cactus put out (Smoking Gun, I think? It's reviewed elsewhere here), this one has no additional anything other than the taste of chipotle.

Bottom line: There's not a great deal to say about this. It's liquified chipotle and a fairly strong taste at that, so a little goes a long way. It doesn't add a great degree of heat and it would be overpowering with the smokiness and vinegar long before you got there. I guess you could use this as an additive, like that McCormick's dry chipotle powder, but it functions not particularly well on its own as a sauce. I'm going to be generous and call this a hit, but just barely, raising the box record to 2 - 1, with one more left to go.

Update 2025: I finally came across this set some 12 years after the initial review and the tables turned substantially, with this tasting like the cheapest vinegary barbeque sauce imaginable and the one I liked least being at least somewhat palatable, which this one wasn't particularly. 

Breakdown:

          Heat level: 1
          Flavor: 2
          Flexibility: 2
          Enjoyment to dollar factor: 2

Overall: 2