Passum


Passum was a raisin wine apparently developed in ancient Carthage and transmitted from there to Italy, where it was popular in the Roman Empire. The earliest surviving instruction constitutes the only known Carthaginian recipe. It is a fragment from the Punic farming manual by Mago in its Latin translation by Decimus Junius Silanus. It survives because it was summarised by Columella :

Mago

Later, less detailed, instructions are found in other Latin and Greek sources.