Note: Support video available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SZc37eXQjg Like the Smokin' Mangoes hot sauce (reviewed earlier), this one is built on the platform of the Mango Meltdown. While that one rather diluted down any mango taste that may have been laying around under a heavy layer of smoky Chipotle, this one goes one (or two) better and knocks down both the flavor and the heat with heavy doses of raspberry.
Now, a good raspberry Chipotle jelly/jam/sauce is one of my favorite things with a roasted meat like turkey or chicken or pork or even with some nice cheese and crackers. This is a fairly fruity concoction along those lines, but we have here a battle for supremacy between the Chipotle and the raspberry and though the raspberry is a close dominator, they both sort of lose. I suspect this is just too many things in one sauce and the mango and Habanero seem to be utterly drowned here.
Things get more confused as the vinegar and salt also try to get some traction on the taste buds, which goes a long way towards limiting the usefulness of this sauce. It would still be good on a plain roasted meat, one of the milder ones such as I mentioned and maybe for a nice change of pace on chicken strips or something, but it's too sweet and salty and does not have a particularly wonderful taste enough to be used as daily anything. Heat level is fairly minimal.
Bottom line: In my view, the problem with this is they just kitchen-sinked it too much and there are too many flavors that combine antagonistically to have much of a pleasant sauce.
Breakdown:
Heat level: 1
Flavor: 5
Flexibility: 4
Enjoyment to dollar factor: 3
Overall: 3
