About Us

Greg at show in New York

We began our company in the early part of 2009. With the availability of many of our great grandfathers John Bono's recipes, we began making various sauces. My dads grandfather was a head chef for many years in the Springfield, MA area and left a legacy of great cooking and recipes behind. Our friends and family were enjoying recipe results so much that we all decided to try and start a specialty foods business. My dad also featured food and recipes for tailgating parties, on his sports radio show some years ago. For many years our family traditionally experimented with various fruit sauces, drinks and grilling with bbq sauces. We did not realize at the time that all this would result in a specialty food and drink business.

The Crimson lion now offers a varied selection of gourmet specialty foods and drink mixes. We have created hot sauces, bbq sauces, dip mixes, olive oil bread dips, no bake cheesecake dessert mixes, gourmet soup mixes, jams, condiments, Fruit Salsa and Specialty Salsa. We continue to add new products such as Apple and Pumpkin Butters gourmet dry cocktail drink mixes. We have developed our Wine Blizzard frosted slush drink mix that features Merlot wine. We also provide a Sangria Ice slush drink mix for those that prefer Sangria.

We have developed a full schedule of shows and events that we attend and have developed a following of loyal customers.

We now sell to stores throughout the country.Feel free to contact us about wholesale opportunities and a Fundraising program that has been very successful to date.

We will also consider applying your own label/name to the product. Contact us at: 413-896-1114 or 413-642-5288.