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• n  small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries
• n  North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries

• 1999 Castello Banfi, $60 While this is a more modern style than the other three, it's a sure crowd pleaser with its smoky cherry and little-red-berry flavors.

• redberry
• Rhamnus croceus
• red baneberry
• snakeberry
• Actaea rubra

News & Articles

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• Cheap wine: barbera d'Asti
  Italy’s Piedmont region boasts the two big B’s — Barolo and Barbaresco — but the “little b,” barbera, is coming on strong. The 2009 Vinchio-Vaglio Serra I Tre Vescovi Barbera d’Asti ($13) has everything you could want in a red wine: seriously tasty red-berry and cherry fruit, a hearty texture, harmony galore and a lush, long finish.
  Feb. 8, 2014 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune