Menozzi De Rosa Licorice Wholesale & Bulk

It’s a different animal from Dutch salty licorice, and from the candy-flavored twists most American shops stock. Here the stuff comes from real licorice root juice, and some formats have no real match on US shelves. We count sixteen SKUs in licorice across bulk and bagged and boxed forms. Cases weigh 0.31 lb to 2.2 lb.

Pure Licorice Products: Root, Juice, Powder

The extracts are the odd corner of this catalog. Licorice Root 5pc 36g Box is the dried root itself. Pure Licorice Juice Sticks come individually wrapped, and Pure Hard Licorice Juice Cuttings are concentrated pieces with nothing added. They’re intense. A serious licorice fan will love them. Pure Licorice Juice Powder Jar goes a step further, since a shop with home cooks or a foodservice crowd can stir it into drinks or desserts.

Pure Hard Licorice Spazzatina is a traditional Italian format made of little hard pieces of pure extract. We can’t think of a US equivalent. Pure Licorice Sticks in cellophane are the retail-ready cousin, nice for a gift or a single display. Together they cover ground you don’t see in mainstream US candy, which is the gap Menozzi De Rosa fills.

Chewy Confectionery Formats

The chewy side is a full line of its own. Tortiglioni Chewy Black Licorice Sticks are twisted black sticks, the classic Italian caramella di liquirizia. Tubeti Chewy Black Licorice Tubes are hollow, and that changes the chew in a way customers notice. Flauti and Penne are named after pasta. So is Fusilli. That plays well in specialty food stores and gifts, where an Italian name gets a smile. Black Licorice Straws at 20cm are long and dramatic. They stand apart from the shorter pieces.

Sample Products Available at Wholesale

• Menozzi De Rosa Tortiglioni Chewy Black Licorice Sticks, Italy
• Menozzi De Rosa Tubeti Chewy Black Licorice Tubes, Italy
• Menozzi De Rosa Pure Hard Licorice Spazzatina, Italy
• Menozzi De Rosa Pure Licorice Sticks in Cellophane, Italy
• Menozzi De Rosa Licorice Toffee Tofferelle, Italy
• Menozzi De Rosa Pure Hard Licorice Juice Cuttings, Italy
• Menozzi De Rosa Wrapped Pure Licorice Juice Sticks, Italy
• Menozzi De Rosa Pure Licorice Juice Powder Jar, Italy
• Menozzi De Rosa Black Licorice Straws 20cm, Italy
• Menozzi De Rosa Menthol Licorice Pellets Nipit, Italy
• Menozzi De Rosa Flauti Black Licorice Pasta, Italy
• Menozzi De Rosa Licorice Root 5pc 36g Box, Italy
• Menozzi De Rosa Black and White Licorice Penguins, Italy
• Menozzi De Rosa Black Licorice Fruit Rockies, Italy
• Menozzi De Rosa Fusilli Firm Black Licorice, Italy
• Menozzi De Rosa Penne Firm Black Licorice, Italy

The Tofferelle and Nipit: Two Standouts

Two of these we’d call genuinely odd. The Licorice Toffee (Tofferelle) is a soft toffee chew with licorice worked through it, and we haven’t seen a domestic maker try that. Menthol Licorice Pellets (Nipit) are the other one, pure licorice extract with cool menthol in it, so you get both at once. People who like a candy that does two jobs tend to find these on their own. You can’t really source either one here, which is probably why buyers keep asking us about them, so give them a little spot with a handwritten card and watch.

Colors, Forms, and Pack Range

Color-wise it’s black, mostly. Some white shows up with a bit of brown, and that feels right for a pure licorice brand where bright dyes would look wrong. You can get it bulk for bins or bagged for retail, while the root pieces come boxed and some sticks come wrapped, so it’ll sit in a bulk display or a gift section without fuss. Cases run from 0.31 lb on the light retail boxes up to 2.2 lb for bulk chewy stuff like Tortiglioni.

Who Buys Menozzi De Rosa Wholesale

Italian import shops are where we’d start, since the pasta shapes and Italian names do the talking. A specialty candy shop that already has Dutch and Scandinavian licorice can add this to cover Italy. Basket makers doing an Italian theme get a lot out of those pasta shapes (people pick up licorice penne just to look at it). Delis and Italian restaurants might shelve the pure extracts or cook with them, and a tea shop or gourmet pantry store with herbal things could make room for the Root Box next to the Juice Sticks and the Powder Jar.

Storage Notes

The pure extracts want somewhere cool and dry with no strong smells nearby. That goes for the Juice Sticks and Juice Cuttings as much as the Powder Jar and Root Box, because they’ll pull in moisture and go soft or clumpy if you let them. We’d screw the Powder Jar lid down hard every single time. Tortiglioni and Tubeti need the normal cool shelf with oldest stock out first. Same for Fusilli and Penne. Tofferelle minds heat more than the pure pieces do. Keep Nipit sealed, since the menthol fades once the pellets sit open on a display. If storage worries you the Root Box is the easy one, and we’d save Nipit and Tofferelle for shops with decent climate control.

Cross-Sell Opportunities

Menozzi De Rosa goes well with other Italian items in one order. People building an Italian section often add Italian hard candy and chocolate and gummies, so they cover the whole tradition at once. If you also stock Italian pantry goods, the Juice Sticks and Powder Jar can be both a treat and an ingredient. The pasta shapes sit nicely beside Italian food displays, where the pasta link gets shoppers curious about licorice they weren’t looking for.

Ordering Menozzi De Rosa Licorice Wholesale

There’s no minimum order. Cases run 0.31 lb to 2.2 lb depending on format. Approved accounts get account pricing, and orders go to US addresses. All of it is made in Italy.

Browse the full Menozzi De Rosa brand catalog for every SKU. The licorice wholesale section is wider. Shopping several categories? There’s the bulk candy section.

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