List Price: Our Price: $5.25 Your Save: $ ( % ) Availability: Manufacturer:Cholula
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Product Description
Hot and tangy red hot sauce from chile de arbol, piquin pepper and spices. Cholula Mexican Hot Sauce is great! A Novamex product. CHOLULA HOT SAUCE INFO Cholula Hot Sauce is the fastest-growing premium Mexican hot sauce in the U.S market. It has been imported from Mexico since 1988. Made for three generations by the same family in Jalisco, Mexico, Cholula's special blend of red peppers, piquin peppers and spices have a unique flavor and aroma unlike anything you've ever experienced before. It's a seasoning, an ingredient, a condiment and a sauce. Its unique taste makes it the perfect complement to a wide range of foods.
Customer Rating: Summary: Price Comparison Comment: My wife purchased this item at "Shoppers" supermarket in Laurel, MD today. She was complaining that the price was raised from under $2.00 to $2.98 when the item was moved into the Gourmet section of the store. Still, the $2.98 she paid is a far cry from the $13.20 this company gets, when shipping is included.
Customer Rating: Summary: Nice Vinegar Hot Sauce Comment: This is not your grandfather's Tabasco. With all due respect to Tabasco, I've never liked the flavor of that hot sauce. Cholula is about the same level of heat, but with a better flavor.
Customer Rating: Summary: My absolute favorite hot sauce Comment: I can't rate this sauce highly enough. It's not especially hot, (if you're looking for something to sear your tongue with, may I recommend one of Dave's Insanity Sauces?) but has an incredible flavor. I'm nuts about pequin peppers, and this sauce has got 'em!
Customer Rating: Summary: One of the best hot sauces Comment: It's not terribly hot, but the flavor is probably the best I've ever found in a hot sauce. As another person said, it isn't heavy in the vinegar taste found in Tabasco sauce or other sauces. The only food I don't really use it in is that where I want a really high heat level (and for that purpose I'll usually use fresh peppers instead anyway).
If I had one suggestion, I would LOVE to see this company release a hot version (in addition to the current version). Piquin/Chiltepin peppers are actually some of the hottest out there, so the Cholula people are definitely using small quantities of it in the sauce. I wouldn't change the flavor at all, though, just up the pequin content.
Customer Rating: Summary: A Fave on My Table Comment: I prefer the Mexican hot sauces, mainly Cholula and Tapa Tio, to Tabasco, which I find too vinegary. If you've never tried any of the Mexican sauces, Cholula would be a good start. It has an interesting blend of chiles you won't find anywhere else. And while it's definitely picante (which is kind of the point in a hot sauce) it's not hot enough to burn your tongue.
Also, it comes in a neat-looking bottle with a wooden stopper on top. Very classy when you put it out on the table for company to try.
