New Peppers

For the 2025 growing season Cherie added two new peppers to our portfolio. The Red Macedonian “Rezha Macedonian”. Rezha translates to “engraved.” It is so named because of the extreme corking on the peppers. This 100+ year Macedonian heirloom has a medium heat that has an amazing sweet and slightly nutty flavor behind the heat.

The other addition was the Death Spiral. The death spiral pepper was created when UK grower Terry Smith crossbred the naga chili with the bubblegum red pepper. These two parent varieties are both extremely spicy, and have unique traits.

• Bubblegum peppers are wrinkly and blocky with a fruity flavor. They also have the special characteristic of the “bleeding calyx” where the bottom of the stem turns red. This trait did not carry over to the death spiral. Learn more about .

• Naga chilies are one of the hottest The death spiral is a superhot, meaning it is among the world’s hottest peppers. In this particular case, no official Scoville rating has been tested. Having tasted it myself, and given its ancestry, I believe the death spiral is around 1,000,000 SHUs or higher on the Scoville scale.peppers with origins in India. It is similar (and some believe identical) to the ghost pepper, coming in at a whopping 1M SHUs.

• Death spiral peppers are very wrinkly and bumpy, coming to a rounded point at the end like the naga. The folds and wrinkles are similar to the bubblegum, but the overall conical shape is owed to the naga.

The death spiral is a superhot, meaning it is among the world’s hottest peppers. In this particular case, no official Scoville rating has been tested. Given its ancestry, it is estimated the death spiral is around 1,000,000 SHUs or higher on the Scoville scale. The death spiral has a fruity, almost tropical aroma and taste, with slight undertones of tangy citrus. It is a perfect ingredient for making tasty, fiery hot sauce.