Sicilian Fire Habanero Hot Sauce

First, an apology: I couldn't do a review yesterday due to me attending a funeral. I'm sorry to all of you that I couldn't do our Wednesday tradition together but I hope the following will ease your frustration with me.
A friend told me on social media "If you don't review these hot sauces, you have failed us all". I would never want to fail anyone, especially you, my friends out in the internet wonderland. "These" he was referring to are the Golden Girls hot sauces given to us, the public, by Always Fits. Always Fits is a gift shop with a feminist lean and an obsession with 80's and 90's themed subject matter. They have an entire page devoted just to Golden Girls gifts! I've always loved this show so it was a logical next step to share what I thought about these sauces with you! While this set of sauces is found in the aforementioned section of Always Fits, they are manufactured and distributed by Southwest Specialty Foods, Inc. They create and sell a variety of food and gift product, mostly of a spicy context. I wasn't able to find this set on the site but, if I missed it, I'd welcome any of you to send me the link and I'll edit this review to reflect it. Regardless, today I'll be specifically exploring the Sicilian Fire Habanero Hot Sauce.
The label is very cute. A definite 80's theme can be observed in the lettering and somewhat in the stylized rendition of Sophia (played by Estelle Getty on the show). It's full of bright colors and engaging art. I am a fairly big fan of this label. It just makes me smile. It also has a recipe for Sicilian Fire Cheesecake Filling which just sounds neat!
The color is darn near precisely what I look for in a spicy condiment. It's another hot sauce with a red richness, like the sauce we dove into last week. There is a note of ingredient sediment when one moves the liquid in the bottle but it's not as noticeable as I generally prefer. There is a thickness to the residual product left on the bottle after the two surfaces meet, so it might get lost to the eye in that.
The pour is surprisingly thick, though not so meaty as to make it a slow exit from the bottle. It has a drip spout, though with an unusually wide opening. One could make the assumption that this is due the the relatively think nature of the bottle's contents. Either way, don't attempt to pour too fast for risk of over-seasoning your target.
The flavor is nice but not especially well executed. A relatively simple and non-layered flavor, I detected a vegetable-like flavor upon it first touching my tongue. My lovely friend garlic is undetectable here which, as many of you know, tends to elicit a frown from me. Other than these two notable points, the taste in general is acceptable but not anything to put a proverbial bookmark in.
This is a surprisingly hot sauce. I say "surprisingly" because when I first looked into a Golden-Girls-themed product, I expected it to cater to the lowest common denominator when it came to heat tolerance. The initial tongue burn is significant, focusing mainly on the tip. It hits the back of the throat too, startling me upon tasting. Of course, the lip tingle appears with repeated tastings.
In short, this is a good sauce for the heat high, but not a must-have regarding flavor. But, and let's be honest here, who doesn't want a Golden Girls hot sauce set for their collection just on the merit of being what it is? I know it make me happy to see the images of Sophia, Rose, Blanche, and Dorothy on bottles sitting on my shelves. Go and pick it up. You know you want to. Until next week, thank you for being a friend.