Beaumes de Venise

• Beaumes de Venise is a wine produced from Beaumes de Venise, near Orange, in the Rhone valley of southern France.
• The wine was well-known to the Romans.

Pliny the Elder

• Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE) wrote about the exceptional muscat wine produced at Beaumes on the southern Rhone, France.
• Beaumes de Venise still produces two types of wine, a fortified sweet white muscat wine and a red Cotes du Rhone Villages.

Photo and map: Beaumes de Venise