Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (commonly shortened to PACA), also known as Région Sud, is one of the eighteen Regions of France, administrative regions of France, located at the far southeastern point of the Metropolitan France, mainland. The main P ...
region
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in southeastern
France
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Name
The word "beaumes" comes from the Provençal word ''bauma'' meaning "cave" or "grotto". The surrounding hills have many of these caves that were inhabited during the
Iron Age
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Population
Wine
The village gives its name to a sweet
wine
Wine is an alcoholic drink made from Fermentation in winemaking, fermented fruit. Yeast in winemaking, Yeast consumes the sugar in the fruit and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Wine is most often made f ...
appellation, Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise. It also gives its name to a drier red wine, formerly Côtes du Rhone Villages Beaumes-de-Venise, now
Beaumes de Venise AOC
Beaumes de Venise () is an appellation of wines from the eastern central region of the southern half of the Rhône Valley. It produces wines of two distinctly different types:
1. A sweet fortified wine of the type '' vin doux naturel'' (VDN), u ...
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See also
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Dentelles de Montmirail
The Dentelles de Montmirail are a small Mountain range, chain of mountains in Provence in France, in the ''département in France, département'' of Vaucluse, located just to the south of the village of Vaison-la-Romaine.
They are foothills of ...
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Communes of the Vaucluse department
The following is a list of the 151 communes of the Vaucluse department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Vaucluse
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