Passum

Passum ( passon, stapidites or hepsema ) was also a Roman of the 1st to 4th century Cretan sweet wine (probably today's dessert wine accordingly), which was in addition to other types of wine an important export item of the time the Roman Empire incorporated Mediterranean island. Passum is mentioned by numerous Greek and Latin authors as stimulants and remedies.

In addition came from the ancient Crete, the wines athalassos as wine without sea water, hydatodes. Than light white wine as well as a sweet wine theraios In the Asklepios sanctuary in südkretischen Lebana found the wine, mixed with pepper, as a remedy its use, as evidenced by inscriptions.

The Cretan wine imported into the Christian era resulted from the social and economic change, the Crete ( 67 BC ) was defeated by the Roman conquest. On the Cyrenaica united in one province island there was now, and especially after the era of the Roman civil wars economic renewal towards a plantation economy, which was comprised of the wine and olive growing and export among others, to Italy and the West, the Roman Empire was finished.

First written by Mago found in the work De re rustica by Lucius Junius Columella Moderatus a detailed summary in the book 12