Bourgogne Wines reveals new international ambassadors

France’s Bourgogne Wine Board has welcomed nine new official wine ambassadors: joining a community of 67 ambassadors across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.

The nine successful specialists, including a Master of Wine, were selected from over 100 candidates. They came from Europe, Asia and the Americas and toured Bourgogne from north to south over five days.

They toured the Bourgogne wine region from north to south over five days: with the aim to deepen their knowledge and discover the variety of Bourgogne wines and terroirs through a study of the landscape, visits to wine estates and meetings with wine professionals and themed tastings.

This week of  training culminated in a demanding final exam, consisting of a blind tasting followed by a commentated tasting, to earn the title of “Official Bourgogne Wines Ambassador".

The nine new Bourgogne Wine Official Ambassadors are: Monica Marin (US); Maxine Dubois (Vietnam); René Langdahl Jorgensen (Denmark); Kenn Ching (Singapore and China); Sylvain Elies (France); Jacky Blisson MW (Quebec); Laura Kent (UK); Paulo Brammer (Brazil); Paul Peng Wang (Taiwan).