Wine of Helbon — Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged
WINE of Helbon. Ezekiel1 speaks of a kind of excellent Wine that was sold at the Fairs of Tyre. He calls it fat Wine, in vinopingui. The Hebrew says, in the Wine of Helbon. This Wine was well known to the Antients; they called it Chalibonium vinum. It was made at Damascus, and the Persians had planted Vineyards there on purpose, as Posidonius assures us, quoted by Athenæus.2 This Author says, that the Kings of Persia used no other for their common Drink.
Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Wine of Helbon,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged,
English translation, Mind of the Church,
https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/w/wine-of-helbon/.
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