The apartment is right in the center of the little village of Pommard. The much bigger town of Beaune is probably 10 minutes away, and all the great wine towns of Cote de Beaune, Cote de Nuit, Cote Challonais etc are easily accessible for touring. My son and I would pick out 2 or 3 or 4 towns in each region to visit in a day - breakfast, touring, lunch with wine, touring, dinner with wine and home - it was incredible to see these places: Volnay, Merseault, Puligny-Montrachet, Gevrey-Chambertin, Vosnee-Romanee, Vougeot, etc. The private gated parking is a welcome feature - never search for a place to park at night. It is a perfect home base for touring.
Pommard itself is lovely and quiet. Not a lot was open in July but we very much enjoyed the bakery right outside the front door entrance, a tour of the Chateau , the Calabria pizzeria (friendly, family run, good wines, fantastic pasta amatriciana), and (right next door) Compagnie de Fanny for wine and wonderful charcuterie and frommage. (Au Pres du Clocher was unfortunately closed!)
Inside the apartment is so homey, and so completely thought through, that it is a pleasure to come home there each day. The kitchen and bath are full of high end fixtures and could not be nicer or more functional. The living room is comfortable for watching a DVD or TV - we mostly watched CNN international and movies. The dining area is much larger than we had need for.
The rooms are perfectly decorated. The 2 bedrooms are both comfortable and cool at night - even in July.
In addition to touring the wine regions we made the most of our proximity to Beaune - a very beautiful city. Highlights for us were the Saturday morning farmers market, Hotel-Dieu, a tour of the cellars of Jospeh Drouhin, the wine museum, and a wonderful (and expensive) dinner at Jardin des Ramparts.
The even bigger city of Dijon is a little more than a half hour away - we did some of the museums and churches and had a nice lunch at Cafe Gourmand on the main plaza.
For the ambitious I recommend day trips to Cluny, the Beaujolais region, the Chablis region and the great city of Lyon. We spent a week in Pommard followed by a week in Lyon which made seeing these places easy. We then backtracked to Chablis for a night to stage our return to CDG.
Finally, the owner Carolyn could not have been nicer or more helpful or informative. She knows so much about her region in France and is generous in sharing.
Just go - this place s great!