Pommar(d), as it is or is not pronounced, is threaded with the tiny stream of Avant Dheune, that in the past could become a torrent, moving rocks down off the escarpment and mixing them up thoroughly as contributions to a relatively uniform soil, if not to uniform wine flavors. It is consider it a place where only y red wine is traditionally grown. The fractured and faulted rock strata allow the accumulation of water from above, making springs quite common on the surface and in historical times being a source of water for the festungs and walls of Beaune, almost as today the wines go north to become educated in the cellars there where fine negociants take off for us a tithe of the best. The predominance of pearly marl of various sources is important for the vines, especially the ferruginous (iron-bearing) variety, making the reds often unusually depp on color for Burgundy and sturdy in flavor, two characteristics for which Pommard is known. Pommard has the gentlest slopes of the cap-rock vineyards and the most uniform soil, but is also capable of considerable subtlety in its upper-class lieu-dits.

Jadot possesses a considerable slice of Cotes-du-B eane vineyard land and the region of Pommard is no exception, over its various company holdings. It is a fine negotiant of long standings, also having accumulating much find classified land and real property under the name Heirs of (Heritérs de) Louis Joadot, Maison Louis Jadot, and two or three family Domaines of different names, owned and operated outrigth, including Domaine André Gagey. and sub-negociants in the Chalonnais, Maconnais, and fine land in the Beaujolais region.

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