Amazon Habanero Hot Sauce Review

Amazon Habanero 

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 mighty jaguar. 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 fourth (and final) bottle from the Amazon 4-pack that I've been reviewing and conclusively, after fairly exhaustive testing, I can say the only dud in that 4 pack was that awful Mango sauce that I wound up tossing.

This particular one is another Louisiana-style sauce, substituting Habaneros instead of the usual Cayenne or Jalapeno, somewhat similar to the Tabasco Habanero, minus the actual tabasco part of it. This cuts out a lot of the sweetness from the Tabascos and just leaves a strong red Habanero flavor, tempered by the vinegar. I find the taste of this to be refreshing overall, but a bit confusing, since it functions about halfway as a Louisiana-style sauce (Habaneros are maybe not the most suitable pepper for this style) and functions halfway as a sort of Mexican-ish sauce, where Habaneros tend to be used more frequently.

The heat is about on part with the green Amazon pepper sauce, perhaps a bit hotter, but less vinegary, right around the level of the aforementioned Tabasco Habanero. The dropper is built right into the bottle, but the design is a bit pour because frequently more will come out than necessarily intended. It isn't a bad taste, by any means, but not exactly stellar, either. I think this one meshes better across a wider variety of food than does the green, but not by a landslide or anything. All in all, with that 4-pack, we had 2 pretty good sauces, 1 that was basically liquified smoke in a pepper sauce and 1 total misfire that needed to be tossed. Not too bad and definitely worth getting to check out, but I'm not sure I will ever repeat it.

Bottom line: By a razor thin margin, this one emerges as the best sauce of the 4-pack, very narrowly beating out the green Amazon sauce. Still not enough for a repeat purchase, but definitely enjoyable while the bottle lasts.

Breakdown:

          Heat level: 2
          Flavor: 7
          Flexibility: 7
          Enjoyment to dollar factor: 6

Overall: 5