Menozzi De Rosa Italy Candy Wholesale & Bulk

Menozzi De Rosa Italy Candy Wholesale & Bulk

Menozzi De Rosa comes from Calabria down in the toe of Italy, where licorice root has been grown and processed for centuries. We don’t know many producers who take the stuff as seriously as they do. Their range runs from the plainest, purest licorice you can buy all the way out to silly display pieces. Here at CandiesWholesaler.com the Menozzi De Rosa Italy candy wholesale collection has 16 of them in bulk and bagged and boxed formats, with no minimum order for US buyers.

Menozzi De Rosa and the Calabrian Licorice Tradition

Glycyrrhiza glabra grows wild across Calabria, and people there have been digging up the root to sell since at least the 16th century. Taste the extract plain and it’s herbal and a bit sweet. There’s some anise in there too, though not much. Most black candy in North America gets its flavor from anise oil. Put the two side by side and the real extract comes across earthier and more complicated, with a sweetness that hangs around instead of turning fake.

Menozzi De Rosa gets its extract from Calabrian production and builds the whole range around that one taste. Some of your customers grew up on real Italian licorice, or picked up the habit on a trip to Italy or at a specialty food shop. For them we honestly don’t know a more authentic wholesale line. Newcomers get plenty of ways in as well, because the shapes and strengths swing so widely from one piece to the next.

Pure Hard Licorice: The Most Elemental Expression

Start with the hard stuff. Pure hard licorice is what a lot of Italians reach for after a meal, more out of habit than as a sweet. The Menozzi De Rosa Pure Hard Licorice Spazzatina Italy takes its name from ‘little broom’ in Italian, a nod to the old idea that licorice tidies you up after eating. Small pieces. Very dark and very strong. It isn’t mainstream candy and doesn’t try to be. Italian-American shoppers still go looking for it, and so do specialty food people who’d take the genuine article over a licorice-flavored copy any day.

Menozzi De Rosa Pure Hard Licorice Juice Cuttings Italy are cut straight off a block of solid licorice extract. No added sugar and no sweeteners. Nothing else, really. In Italy you’d find these in pharmacies and old apothecaries, which tells you how people there think about them. In a specialty food shop they land in an odd spot between candy and the herbal shelf, and you can say exactly that on the shelf tag.

Same pure extract, different shape. Menozzi De Rosa Pure Licorice Juice Sticks Wrapped Italy are sticks wrapped one by one, which makes them look nicer and feel cleaner than loose pieces in a bin. Gift shops can use them. Sampling tables too. The Menozzi De Rosa Pure Licorice Juice Powder Jar Italy heads off somewhere else entirely, since it’s loose licorice powder in a jar and people cook with it. We’d think about baking supply stores for that one, or tea shops and anybody selling cocktail ingredients.

Chewy and Soft Licorice: Accessible Formats for Broader Appeal

Plenty of shoppers find pure hard licorice too much, and Menozzi De Rosa clearly knows it. So there’s a softer, chewier side to the range that’s closer to what Americans call black licorice candy, except the flavor underneath is still Calabrian extract and not what most domestic or Dutch licorice gets made with.

Menozzi De Rosa Tortiglioni Chewy Black Licorice Sticks Italy are twisted chewy sticks. You’ve seen the shape in any candy store, but these use Calabrian extract. In a bulk display the twist looks handmade. Menozzi De Rosa Tubeti Chewy Black Licorice Tubes Italy take the same chewy licorice and form it into little hollow tubes. Hollow chews a touch faster than solid. They pour nicely through gravity bins, too.

With the Menozzi De Rosa Licorice Toffee Tofferelle Italy the licorice goes soft and toffee-ish, and it’s richer in the mouth than the regular chews. People who say licorice is too much often like this one, because the flavor is still there, only gentler. We’d shelve it with the toffees and caramels. Tucked inside a licorice section it can get overlooked.

Licorice Pasta Shapes: Visual Novelty with Genuine Flavor

This is where it gets fun. Menozzi De Rosa makes licorice in pasta shapes, which is about as Italian an idea as candy gets. Menozzi De Rosa Flauti Black Licorice Pasta Italy are flutes. Menozzi De Rosa Fusilli Firm Black Licorice Italy come as spirals, and Menozzi De Rosa Penne Firm Black Licorice Italy look just like penne. All three are firm licorice.

Set a jar of licorice penne on the counter of an Italian deli and people will do a double take. They’re fun to photograph too. A gift shop could build a little shelf around them, or anyone going for an only-in-Italy theme. The firm texture is friendlier than the hard pure licorice, and it’s still that real Calabrian flavor.

Straws, Sticks, and Specialty Formats

Menozzi De Rosa Black Licorice Straws 20cm Italy are long thin licorice tubes running 20 centimeters. And yes, you can actually drink through one. A cold drink picks up a mild licorice taste on the way up. That gives a bar or a coffee shop something to play with, maybe a stir-straw in a cocktail or a little extra beside an espresso. Even standing upright in a jar they look pretty striking.

Menozzi De Rosa Pure Licorice Sticks Cellophane Italy are the classic long sticks wrapped in cellophane, which suits a jar by a gift shop till or a sampling tray. The Menozzi De Rosa Licorice Root 5pc 36g Box Italy is the root itself. Dried pieces in a small box, for chewing or brewing. It’s really more herbal product than candy, and we suspect an herb shop would take to it as readily as a candy store.

Menthol Licorice and Playful Pieces

Menozzi De Rosa Menthol Licorice Pellets Nipit Italy add menthol, so you get the herbal licorice hit first and a cool finish after. Italians pair licorice with mint a lot. Scandinavians do it too. We’d keep these by the checkout, where people grab something to freshen their breath on the way out.

The playful end of the range is Menozzi De Rosa Black and White Licorice Penguins Italy along with Menozzi De Rosa Black Licorice Fruit Rockies Italy. Each penguin is a little black licorice piece layered with white, so it looks less scary to someone who’d walk right past anything all black. The Rockies mix fruit flavor in with the licorice. Easier for a first timer.

Wholesale Terms and Program Building

If you sell by weight, the bulk pieces go straight into a gravity bin. Bagged ones work for grab-and-go. We’d save the boxed things, the licorice root box especially, for a gift shop or a fancy food display. Unit weights go from 0.31 to 2.2 lb and a case comes to roughly 5 to 10 kg. There’s no minimum order. Approved wholesale accounts get account pricing, and CandiesWholesaler.com ships within the US.

More Italian candy from other brands is in the bulk candy catalog if you want company for the licorice. For a licorice-only section these 16 SKUs go a long way. Strength runs from root and powder at one end to soft toffee at the other, and the shapes go anywhere from pasta to pellets.

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