Wine Spectator: Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Buys Burgundy’s Chateau de Pommard
September 19, 2014Silicon Valley entrepreneur Michael Baum has purchased Burgundy winery Château de Pommard from owner Maurice Giraud for an undisclosed sum, Wine Spectator reports. The estate includes two châteaus and a rare 49.4-acre, walled single vineyard, or clos, in the Côte de Beaune region.
Baum has been a leading Silicon Valley investor and executive for more than two decades. He is currently CEO of Splunk, a software firm that develops products to analyze big data.
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