Domaine des Bernadins
Like many of this region’s villages, Beaumes de Venise has been producing wine since Roman times but is unique for the production of ‘vin doux naturel’ or sweet fortified wine. Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) wrote: “Muscat has been grown for a long time in Balme and makes wonderful wine.” Since then the story of Muscat de Beaumes continued to be told: the home of Muscat was supplier to Pope Clement V in Avignon and then the entire kingdom’s nobility, including Henry IV who had a taste for Muscat.