About D'Fuego
Caribbean origins
D’Fuego got its start on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica with a little hot pepper known locally as the Panamanian pepper. It’s essentially a habanero pepper with a more intense flavor that’s for sale in local markets only. Its taste is truly addictive and had me searching for ways to eat it with everything and making a hot sauce from it was the simplest way!
A very special sauce...
Whether the Panamanian pepper is a hybrid or not is debatable; the pepper is actually a habanero, but with a stronger aroma and richer flavor than your mass-produced habaneros. These attributes are what make D'Fuego such a special hot sauce.
Think of it as the difference in fine wines or coffees, where altitude, shade, soil, and climate influence quality and taste.
We’ve gone to extreme lengths to ensure the authentic taste is cultivated with the right amount of water, light and nutrients to bring you the strongest aromatic and flavorful sauce possible.
Home grown quality and fresh taste!
Hard to get hot peppers!
D’Fuego is a truly artisanal sauce that took me over 3 years to replicate in bigger batches due to the scarcity of the peppers. Finding more than a few pounds of the peppers per vendor was very difficult and getting them consistently the same was impossible.
I spent a year looking for a single source of peppers and finally decided that the only way to get the volume and quality I wanted was to grow them myself.
It turns out, a colleague of mine had a lot of unused farm land in the Costa Rica countryside and he shared my passion for hot sauce! We partnered up to make D’Fuego fresh from seed to sauce and the rest is history!