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Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $14.66 $15.43
12 bottles: $11.88
Explore the indulgent side of the Caribbean with this Blue Chair Bay® Mocha Rum Cream. Drink the decadent, smooth...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $26.45 $27.84
12 bottles: $19.15
Explore the indulgent side of the Caribbean with this Blue Chair Bay® Mocha Rum Cream. Drink the decadent, smooth...
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Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $14.66 $15.43
12 bottles: $11.88
Blue Chair Bay® Rum is inspired by the island lifestyle of multi-platinum singer-songwriter Kenny Chesney. This...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $26.45 $27.84
12 bottles: $20.98
Blue Chair Bay® Rum is inspired by the island lifestyle of multi-platinum singer-songwriter Kenny Chesney. This...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $20.16
12 bottles: $19.15
The zesty taste of lime is an invigorating symphony for he senses. With its vibrant citrus profile, this rum offers a...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $25.54 $26.88
12 bottles: $18.24
Blue Chair Bay® Rum is inspired by the island lifestyle of multi-platinum singer-songwriter Kenny Chesney. This...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $25.54 $26.88
12 bottles: $18.24
Blue Chair Bay® Rum is inspired by the island lifestyle of multi-platinum singer-songwriter Kenny Chesney. This...
White
750ml
Bottle: $42.00
12 bottles: $41.16
Attractive and nervy nose with white pepper funk, wild berries and grapefruit. Full-bodied and flavorful for a rosé...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $24.00
12 bottles: $23.52
• 100% Listán Blanco (Palomino). • Sourced from ungrafted centenary vines at 500-600m altitude in the village of...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $45.00
• 100% Palomino. • From a less-than-one-hectare parcel of 80-year-old vines planted in slate at high altitude....
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White
750ml
Bottle: $32.94
12 bottles: $32.28
Rated 96 - Intense, stony and layered, it's a wine that builds on the palate, with effortless concentration, Loire...
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $27.14 $28.57
Toasted pastries, coffee bean and chocolate confections create potent aromas. The flavors open on a savory note,...
UBC
91
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Spirits
375ml
Bottle: $25.64 $26.99
12 bottles: $20.97
Made with a blend of sugar cane “from eight different countries” in the Caribbean and South America, the bottle...
WE
91
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Spirits
750ml
Bottle: $31.56 $33.22
Made with a blend of sugar cane “from eight different countries” in the Caribbean and South America, the bottle...
WE
91
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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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88
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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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88
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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...
White
750ml
Bottle: $15.84
12 bottles: $15.52
This wine displays classical chenin blanc aromatics of straw, lanolin and bruised peach, accompanied by a beautifully...

Chenin Blanc Sherry Mencia Rum

Originating in France yet now grown in many parts of the New World, Chenin Blanc is one of the most versatile and highly regarded white wine grape varietals on earth. These green skinned grapes hold a relatively high acid content, and as such can be used for making still white wines of exceptional quality, as well as superb sparkling wines (such as the Crémant wines of the Loire Valley) and extremely aromatic dessert wines. Their natural transparency means that they are a fine grape for expressing their terroir in the bottle, and winemakers often experiment with this varietal to coax unusual and intense flavors from the grapes, such as allowing the development of noble rot on the fruit in order to make sweet and viscous wines of a unique character.

Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.

Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.

Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.

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.