World Île Maurice
Chef Sommelier for the Constance Hotel Group, Jérôme Faure made a successful masterstroke. And for that, he chose to take advantage of the opening of the “Ephelia Constance Resort”, a hotel complex built in the northwest of the Mahé island. Nestled between two natural coves, near Port Launay, it offers 184 junior suites, 40 senior suites, 44 villas and even a presidential villa shrouded in vegetation and getting a view of the whole complex.
Thus, it is there that seven wine growers, member of the “Art de Vignes” club, agreed to be the essential actors of a unique gastronomic week in the Indian Ocean. Paul Amsellem of the Domaine Georges Vernay - Appellation Condrieu, explains: “Art de Vignes is a club which gathers wine growers who all - each of them from his part - associate the art with the wine. And it is this common point which led us to get closer, two years ago. For us, it is more about an approach of image than commercial. And when we meet on an event in France, we take advantage of it to establish contacts with the prescribers. Being involved in this first is for us a way of paying tribute to the work realized by Jérôme Faure, here. If, by ourselves, we would not have bent over the Constance group market, it is evident that it is far from being negligible, nowadays. And this is due to the work that he carries out with open and well-off customers.”
“Together, they give the picture of an elite. They produce sommelier wines which represent France. And moreover, they are a bunch of friends who quickly accepted the challenge which I proposed to them” underlines Jérôme Faure. He has the ambition to renew this very unique event which allows at once the wine growers to present their new vintage wines, to the customers of the various restaurants where take place the prestigious evenings to meet the men who produce these bottles which we find on the most beautiful tables of the world, and finally to the professionals of the place to improve their knowledge.
Because in this idyllic spot, these wine growers coming from the great wine-producing regions of the Hexagon, not only proposed a selection of their wines for each of the seven gala dinners organized at the “Ephelia” and the “Lémuria” (on Praslin island), but they also agreed to participate in training sessions intended for the six young sommeliers of the new resort. South African, Mauritian, Danish or French, all took advantage of this exceptional moment. “Training is here a daily reality, insists moreover Jérôme Faure. One hour a day is dedicated to this work with practice, tests and a marking system which allows the best one to be offered a stay in France or in South Africa”. Julie Jorald, young Mauritian girl, even won a complementary training at the “Université du Vin” in Suze-la-Rousse and prestigious training courses in France which gave her the opportunity to enrich her skills.
An action on the initiative of a sommelier who, within a few months, will take the selections of the MOF with the will to go a little further than in 2004, when he was a finalist.
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