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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $47.78 $50.30
6 bottles: $39.76
Copper color. Aromas and flavors of molasses cookies, caramelized lime, toffee, and cherry cola with a slightly...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $47.78 $50.30
6 bottles: $39.76
Copper color. Aromas and flavors of molasses cookies, caramelized lime, toffee, and cherry cola with a slightly...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $14.96 $15.75
12 bottles: $12.40
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $17.80 $18.74
12 bottles: $14.81
Cane Run delivers a superior drinking experience with its aroma of sweet, light brown sugar. It tastes of delicate...
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Spirits
700ml
Bottle: $32.39 $34.09
6 bottles: $28.81
Made from traditional Jamaican rums infused with natural spices and aged in oak casks, Canerock Jamaican Spiced Rum...
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Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $12.11 $12.75
12 bottles: $10.40
Parrot Bay is a premium merge of fresh, rich flavors with a light, crisp Puerto Rican rum. This rum is designed to...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $23.55 $24.79
12 bottles: $17.80
Parrot Bay is a premium merge of fresh, rich flavors with a light, crisp Puerto Rican rum. This rum is designed to...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $23.55 $24.79
12 bottles: $15.72
Parrot Bay is a premium merge of fresh, rich flavors with a light, crisp Puerto Rican rum. This rum is designed to...
Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $24.79
12 bottles: $15.72
Parrot Bay is a premium merge of fresh, rich flavors with a light, crisp Puerto Rican rum. This rum is designed to...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $23.55 $24.79
12 bottles: $15.72
Parrot Bay is a premium merge of fresh, rich flavors with a light, crisp Puerto Rican rum. This rum is designed to...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $25.82 $27.18
12 bottles: $21.95
Very fragrant fresh pineapple aroma, with a ripe & juicy pineapple taste profile. Its slight notes of molasses and...
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Spirits
1.0Ltr
Bottle: $13.88 $14.61
Captain Morgan Apple Smash blends our Caribbean rum with a burst of green apple flavor that is sure to be a favorite...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $27.14 $28.57
12 bottles: $18.99
Captain Morgan Apple Smash blends our Caribbean rum with a burst of green apple flavor that is sure to be a favorite...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $32.66 $34.38
12 bottles: $26.51
A firm favorite, this spiced rum is specially crafted to taste great with Cola or as a shot.
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Spirits
1.0Ltr
Bottle: $23.99
It's become fashionable to hate on the Captain, but the original in the spiced-rum category has a pronounced vanilla...
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Spirits
1.75Ltr
Bottle: $31.99
It's become fashionable to hate on the Captain, but the original in the spiced-rum category has a pronounced vanilla...
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Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $11.99
It's become fashionable to hate on the Captain, but the original in the spiced-rum category has a pronounced vanilla...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $27.18
12 bottles: $21.95
This clear rum is full-bodied, even slightly viscous, with vanilla, coconut and marshmallow sweetness and a touch of...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $11.40 $12.00
12 bottles: $7.13
Caribaya Coconut rum derives its name from the rich porduction fields formed around and about the many islands of the...

Ice Wine Melon de Bourgogne Rum Viognier

One of the more unusual French grape varietals, Melon de Bourgogne has been grown in and around the Loire Valley for several hundred years. In fact, this grape was first planted in the Loire region of Pays Nantais back in the mid 17th century, after a devastating frost decimated most of the red grapes which were typical in the area. The winemakers of Pays Nantais were keen to cultivate vines which were hardy, high yielding, and capable of surviving another such frost, and so turned their attention to Melon de Bourgogne for this very reason. The native home of the varietal is actually in Burgundy, where it is still grown to a lesser extent.


Because Melon de Bourgogne produces naturally heavy yields, the vintners of Pays Nantais go to great lengths to reduce the amount of fruit the vines bear. This allows the finest characteristics of the grape to come forward, and also opens up the opportunity for it to express the wonderful granite and schist soils in which the vines are grown. Melon de Bourgogne is a minerally white wine grape varietal, with a very subtle set of fruit flavors. It is prized for its freshness and brightness, and is seeing a revival in the twenty first century as an excellent wine for pairing with a wide range of foods.

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.

Although primarily associated with the Rhone region of France, the precise origins of the Viognier grape variety are unknown, and the subject of much debate. However, these fine and delicate green skinned grapes are an important varietal for many of France's most elegant white wines, and they are quickly beginning to spread around the New World, too, where wineries are discovering their unique qualities and unusual character. Viognier grapes are notoriously difficult to grow, due to the fact they are highly susceptible to mildew, but wineries persevere with them nonetheless, producing wines which are highly aromatic and have a great, fruit-forward character. Their delicate aroma suggests sweetness due to its flowery, sappy nature, but the wine itself generally very dry and crisp, and full of summery, light and refined qualities.