Chilli of the Valley, run from Wales by Dan Reed and his family, caught my attention all the way back in twenty-eighteen, when I was looking for a mild and Marvel-themed sauce for a friend. Their garlicky, green ones fit the bill perfectly and, when I wasn’t impressed by the second sauce that I tried from them,  they reworked it into the vastly superior Calypso that you see today.

In the time since, Chilli of the Valley have produced many other fantastic products, ranging from their exceedingly hot extract ones and carolina reaper-based, black garlic Black Death to their much milder BBQ offerings, the cherry-filled Dark Siren and korean-style Soseu. They’ve always been a delight to shop with and very supportive of me in turn.

However, through the years, I’ve gotten to know some of the people they work with, too. And, knowing how cool of a person their artist is, I can’t say that I’m in favour of their recent turn towards AI image generation at all. So I’m afraid you won’t be finding a website link here or in my sidebar.

Instead, consider supporting their real artist, Rory Petts and his facebook business, Graphics Fix.