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The Taste of Imperialism?

My wife and I opened a bottle of a wine called ‘Merlot Sangiovese Rubicone’ tonight that has a rather interesting label. I reproduce it for you here:

There’s a little bit of a glare on the picture, but you can probably see the word ‘Caesar’ at the top above a Caesarean coin, surrounded by Latin. Here is how the broken Latin reads:

COGNITA MILITVM VOLVNTATE […]MINVM CVM EALEGIONE […]FICISCITVR IBIQUE […]RIBVNOS PLEBIS QV[…] AD EVM CONFVGER[…] CONVENIT RELIQVAS LEG[…] EX HIBERNIS EVOCAT ET SVBSEQVI IVBET

Numismatists and epigraphers of the world, unite!