Gindo's Mango Habanero Hot Sauce Review

Gindo's Mango Habanero

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Note: This sauce is courtesy for purposes of review from Roger Damptz of Burn Your Tongue, legendary hot sauce emporium. Check him out on Facebook. 

I don't have a lot of hot sauce companies where any entry from them, in a given year, is automatically going to be a danger of being in contention for Sauce Of The Year, but Gindo's is definitely one of them. Their approach to sauces is, I think, near unrivaled and the output speaks for itself. We have always delicious, high quality bottled results, which do a great job of letting the ingredients shine, will also having its own composite identity. Sometimes that identity works better than other times, to be sure, just the way it goes with these things, but any sauce from Gindo's that I'm having for the first time in a given year is one I tend to view with great anticipation.

It has been a bit since I've had one...I think I wound up skipping them in 2023, due mainly to their model of how they like to go to market, but I was excited to see this one. I surely do love me some fruit-based sweet-hots for a sauces and despite having a lot of Habanero-mango sauces, which are nearly always a mixed bag, I felt a lot safer with my taste buds in those capable hands...that sounded kind of odd, but I do trust Gindo's to deliver, particularly in flavor, and that is always the most important consideration. Indeed, if there was one sauce maker I would point to for those non-chileheads who say hot sauce never tastes good, it would be Gindo's.

So, I do not say this lightly, but this is probably the best Habanero-mango sauce I've ever had. Happily, this one veers toward the sweet side of the fruit and pairing it with some nice yellow and red bell peppers allows those to shine also, as well as drawing in a bit of the fruitiness of the Habanero. Pink Himalayan salt shows up in the mix, which is always a brilliant touch in a sauce, and what we have here is just an incredibly delicious concoction. Given that it's a Habanero sauce, heat was never going to be particularly high and it definitely isn't here, which should make this readily accessible to non-chileheads as well. 

Bottom line:

Gindo's is a sauce company every chilehead should know about and experience and once again, the company delivers the goods here, checking in with my pick for the top of the heap for Mango Habanero sauces. 

Breakdown:

           Heat level: 1
           Flavor: 10
           Flexibility: 8
           Enjoyment to dollar factor: 10

Overall: 7