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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.93
12 bottles: $15.61
Light, bright, clean, and fresh. A varietally perfect example of Barbera.
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Red
Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.00
12 bottles: $12.74
Deep ruby red with garnet hints. Perfume notes with cherries, plum and vanilla aromas. This classic Barbera is...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.94
12 bottles: $23.46
100% Barbera from selected vineyards in the village of Monforte d’Alba. Vineyards planted from 1980 – 1998. 200...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.93
12 bottles: $14.63
This is bright and fruity with raspberries, blueberries, violets and dark chocolate on offer. Medium- to full-bodied,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.80
12 bottles: $20.38
This 100% Barbera wine is produced from a Monferrato vineyard that is 20 to 30 years old. The soil contains white...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94 $16.66
12 bottles: $15.83
Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.09
12 bottles: $16.75
Franco Amoroso Barbera'Asti is elegant and polished with layers of dark red cherry fruit, lively acidity and subtle...
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.93
Plum and cherry aromas are ripe and rich with intense fruitiness. Sleek attack, quite concentrated and assertive, but...
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $30.90
12 bottles: $30.28
An outstanding example of Barbera from old vines, some dating back to 1949. Strained, deeply rooted plants produce...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.76 $26.40
This traditional process allows the maintenance of the fresh acidity and spicy notes of an easy-to-drink, fragrant,...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $17.90
Notes of blueberries and bramble fruit with lavender, dried herbs and cocoa. Medium-bodied. Juicy and sleek with so...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $24.90
12 bottles: $24.40
COLOR: Deep ruby red color with purple tints. NOSE: The nose is very intense, with typical aromas of plum, raspberry,...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.95
12 bottles: $18.57
Umberta is 100% Barbera and the so-called "entry-level" wine at Iuli. Coming from south-facing vineyards planted...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.00
12 bottles: $16.66
COLOR: Garnet red color with delicate purple reflections. NOSE: Intense, fresh nose with red fruit aromas and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.85 $14.73
Aromas of raspberries, wild strawberries, blood orange, crushed stones and hibiscus. Medium-bodied, juicy and racy...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94 $16.66
12 bottles: $15.83
A wine with hints of cherry and red fruits alternating with spicy and sometimes floral hints. A Barbera of excellent...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.94
12 bottles: $17.58
A perfectly perfumed nose of red berries and sweet spices lift from the glass, making way for notes of black fruits...
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90
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.93 $18.00
Expressive aromatics meld into a core of sweet red stone fruit, silky. Sweet floral and spice notes reappear on the...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
A bright, fruity red, this offers pomegranate, cherry, almond and fresh earth flavors. Charming and balanced, ending...
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Barbera Mencia Rum 2022

For centuries now, the beautiful red grapes of the Barbera varietal have been grown in Italy, where they are prized for their unusual high acid content and low tannins, brought about by their thin skins. The Barbera grape varietal thrives in warmer climates, and has had some success overseas in the new world, where its strongly aromatic flavors of intense hedgerow fruits make it a favorite with wineries and wine drinkers looking for a grape which offers plenty of interesting characteristics. Interestingly, the differences between young and aged wines made from this varietal are quite significant, with younger bottles holding a plethora of berry flavors, including blueberry and raspberry notes, and oak aged wines made from the Barbera grape being much loved for their ability to become extremely complex and spicy, and picking up vanilla flavors from the wood they are barreled in.

It is difficult to categorize rum as a single spirit, because of all the spirits found around the globe, rum is perhaps the one which varies most dramatically from place to place. Clear, white rum - a favorite for cocktail drinkers - is perhaps the most prevalent example found today, but there is a whole world of darker, spiced and molasses-rich rums to explore, thanks to the fascinating history and wide reach this drink has.

Rum came about during the colonial times, when sugar was a huge and world-changing business. The molasses left over from the sugar production industry could easily be distilled into a delicious alcoholic drink, and provided extra income for the sugar traders. Before long, it became a favorite of sailors and transatlantic merchants, and it quickly spread across the Caribbean and Latin America, where it remains highly popular today.

The production of rum is a basic and simple one - you take your molasses, add yeast and water, and then ferment and distil the mixture. However, as is often the case, the devil is in the detail. The variation in yeasts found from place to place, the maturation period, the length of the fermentation and the type of stills and barrels used provide the rainbow-colored variation that gives rum its spectrum of styles and characteristics.