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

  • Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise 2022

    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

    Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise "Hommage"

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  • Beaumes-de-Venise Red 2021

    Beaumes-de-Venise

    Beaumes-de-Venise Red 2021

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