Undeniably, this is a smokey sauce. You can smell the smoke when you unscrew the lid. Your tongue is assaulted by smoke when you consume it.
Smoke smoke smoke smoke smoke.
I’m a bit torn by this one. On one hand, I do like strong smokey flavours, however I think that in this sauce it dominates anything that you might use the sauce on (unless you’re being very sparing.. And what’s all that about?).
It takes a while for the smoke flavour to give way to a very pleasant but not overwhelming heat with a bit of acidity in the tail.
7/10 – Good, but needs careful food pairing to avoid smothering other flavours.