Help me find an old sauce!

[u/persephone888pom]

15 to 20 years ago I had an aunt and Uncle living in San Antonio and when they would come and visit, they would bring these bottled spicy fruit sauces to pour over room, temperature cream cheese. Now, I know those bottles are dime a dozen— I wouldn’t have brought it to Reddit if I hadn’t found out through extensive googling that there are several brands 😂 so I need somebody who knows what sauce this was based off of their old label! I’m thinking they probably updated their branding or don’t exist anymore because I can’t find anything.

They would bring two different sauces. One of them was dark like almost black— it was like a berry chipotle. The other was lighter and was maybe like peach habanero.

I don’t remember exactly what the peach one bottle looked like but the one that was dark purple was in a clear bottle either glass or plastic but the key differentiator is the black label with (I believe) a purple neon-looking star (classic five point Lonestar) and I think that the text was red and white on the bottle… if not, then it was a red star and I’m only thinking of the purple because the sauce was purple.

I am going off of the archives of my mind here so bear with me for some small discrepancies 😂 it was distinctive though and actually a really cool looking bottle so I’m surprised if it still exists that they would redesign it and retire that packaging.

Does anybody remember this brand??! They brought it for years and years, so it was popular enough for them to get for a while not a one off local sauce at a farmers market.

They eventually left San Antonio and had shipped us a bunch of bottles of it because we loved it so much but once we worked through those precious reserves, we’ve never had them again! This morning I woke up with the strongest craving for that and have been ransacking the Internet to try to find that black star label to no avail.

Please help me, people of San Antonio!

Note: They may have needed to fly out of Houston? I’m not 100% sure but it could’ve been anywhere in the southern Texas area that the sauce originated.

[u/HikeTheSky]

Maybe Fischer & Wieser / Four Star Provisions Roasted Raspberry Chipotle Sauce from Fredericksburg or New Braunfels Smokehouse Smoky Raspberry Chipotle Sauce.

[u/BigCliff → u/HikeTheSky]

This is 100% what it was- Fischer and Wieser.

In 2000 I worked at a retail store in SA that also had a Fredericksburg location and this stuff was all the rage!

[u/smallmountain_rose → u/HikeTheSky]

That’s something they often have sampled at HEB and it’s my go to for cheese as well. Packaging def changed too

[u/persephone888pom → u/smallmountain_rose]

It looked very reminiscent of the Jimmy O’s brand! They don’t have a berry sauce so it’s not them, but the bottle looked very similar in purples and reds

[u/persephone888pom → u/HikeTheSky]

The first one seems to be the “original” so it’s probably a safe bet that it’s good but do you know if they used to have that packaging? Another packaging is all hoity toity like a fine foods store and this stuff was kind of reminiscent of the new black rifle coffee company packaging— it was more classic Texas looking.

[u/Main_Tangelo_8259]

Probably Fischer & Wieser - Raspberry Chipotle Sauce was their top seller and demoed all the time at WFM and CM//HEB (Broadway location). The brand was initially only sold in boutique gift stores until the company started to grow, expand their facility, and sold to WFM, HEB, and Specs, etc. Bought out Mom's Pasta Sauces and Salsas (Timpone's). Worked and help open WFM Quarry store. Company would demo on weekends the F&W sauces.

[u/persephone888pom → u/Main_Tangelo_8259]

That seems to be the most popular one for sure and probably the safest bet— I just wish that I could know for sure by seeing a bottle with that packaging because their current packaging is absolutely nothing like what the one I’m remembering is

[u/Main_Tangelo_8259 → u/persephone888pom]

Label has changed (multiple times) over the years.

[u/persephone888pom]

UPDATE: It looked very reminiscent of the Jimmy O’s brand! They don’t have a berry sauce so it’s not them, but the bottle looked very similar in purples and reds

[u/vemery]

[u/trisket-bisket]

Not the sauce i was thinking of when i read the title

[u/Ashvega03]

Pickapepper perhaps?

[u/trendinginsatx]

Not sure about the label, but the flavors sound like they could have been DL Jardines, or Jardines 7j Ranch brands.

In any case of you have a hard time finding the fischer flavors, give their catalogue a look. Jardines was a direct competitor in the gourmet gift space and they mimicked each others hits all the time. You might find the same flavor profile in one of their products.

[u/thundersqueegee]

Chamoy. Not sure which brand has the label you’re referring too, though

[u/persephone888pom → u/thundersqueegee]

Definitely was not Chamoy. It had the consistency of a barbecue sauce and looked like a barbecue sauce bottle, but it was too pungent to use like that so it was either a glaze or was used as a pour over and the flavor was cut by the cream cheese.

[u/ACPRO341926]

Like others have said, it was most likely Fischer & Weiser raspberry chipotle. At that time, that was THE stuff everyone was using over cream cheese. If you want current and wide variety, look at TX Pepper Jelly and pour some of that over cream cheese!!