Château de Pommard

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Le château en bref

The Château de Pommard, a few kilometres south of Beaune on the Route des Grands Crus, was built between 1726 and 1750 in the Régence style by Vivant Micault, secretary to King Louis XV. Acquired in 1763 by Claude Marey and then passed on to his son Nicolas-Joseph Marey, it hosted Napoleon I in retreat in the 19th century, who stayed in the 'blue bedroom'. Sold by the de Blic family (Marey-Monge heirs) in 1932, it passed to the Laplanche family in 1936, then to the psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche in 1966, to the property developer Maurice Giraud in 2003, and finally to the American Silicon Valley entrepreneur Michael Baum in 2014. The estate, the largest single-block private vineyard in Burgundy with 20 hectares of Pinot Noir, produces around 80,000 bottles of 'Château Pommard' and 20,000 bottles of 'Clos du Château' each year, kept in cellars holding 300,000 bottles and 600 to 650 oak barrels. A museum of vines and wine, opened in 2006, displays old winemaking tools and traditional harvest baskets and welcomes around 35,000 visitors a year. The château offers several tasting packages (Private Experience, Clos Marey-Monge tasting, discovery of Burgundy) as well as WSET courses from levels 1 to 3 through its École V.