Domaine des Bernardins
Like many of this region’s villages, Beaumes-de-Venise has been producing wine since the Roman times but is unique for the production of sweet fortified wine or ‘vin doux naturel’. 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.
Domaine des Bernardins is a family estate for five generations
since the 19th Century.
The property was previously owned by the Bernardin monks before Louis Castaud, the founder of AOC Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise turned it into a wine estate. He was the first one to show real concern about how the village’s traditional production had almost disappeared and achieved appellation status for Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise in 1945. Today his granddaughter Elisabeth, her husband Andrew Hall and their son Romain continue the family history combining know-how and traditional values.
The wines
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Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise
Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise 2022
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Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise
Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise "Hommage"
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Beaumes-de-Venise
Beaumes-de-Venise Red 2021
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Pays du Vaucluse
Dry Muscat "Doré des Bernardins" 2022
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Côtes-du-Rhône
Côtes-du-Rhône "Les Balmes" Red 2021