Tabasco have got to be one of the biggest hot sauce brands out there right? I’ve always been surprised by how little they’ve expanded their product range, so I was not surprised to see this Tabasco Sweet Chipotle and Cola Sauce & Marinade in my local Sainsbury’s.
Say the words Tabasco, Chipotle, and Cola in the same sentence to me and I’ll always get very excited, until now. Yep I’m not impressed with this effort from Tabasco and it’s been hanging out in my cupboard for months now, I keep trying with it different foods either as a sauce or marinade but I just can’t get on with it.
The sauce is very thick and comes out of the bottle quite clumpy, great for a marinade but not great for a table sauce. The taste is very sweet with a tame cola-ish flavour, which then gets backed up by a slightly smoky heat which is actually quite pokey if you eat enough of it. Strangely the heat doesn’t hang around when applied to food which is then later cooked (ribs, chicken thighs etc), which is disappointing.
Overall this sauce is overly sweet, quite bland, and doesn’t have any depth. It could do with some more acidity and perhaps more seasoning. When you look at the long ingredients list (see image below), it’s not surprising that this sauce just tastes a bit generic and sugary. It’s such a shame since Tabasco’s core product has only THREE ingredients, all natural, which is a world away from Tabasco Sweet Chipotle and Cola Sauce & Marinade.
Not impressed Tabasco, you need to try much harder than this.
Rating: 1.5/5
