We had never tasted this sauce until we were living in Mexico.  I grew up using tabasco.  This sauce is richly flavorful and only a little bit spicy.  It is usually on the table in restaurants in the districts where we have traveled.  It is a marvelous sauce to have around.  It's just right with any latin foods, but also great with eggs!  A natural for beans, of course.  Delicious on chicken...  We were so sorry when we moved on southward and found ourselves outside Valentina territory.  When we came back up through Mexico several years later, we made a point of buying a couple of bottles of Valentina to bring back to the States with us...only to find that it had arrived in California grocery stores while we were away!  Thank goodness we can get it through amazon, now that we've left California for New England.