New Zealand Pinot Noir finds fans in France

More and more French wine drinkers are enthusiastically embracing foreign wines, as shown during a recent tour of France by New Zealand Pinot Noir producers – who also offered a critique of Burgundy for good measure, writes Andrew Jefford in his weekly column. This, I guess, is how the wine world moves forward. It starts, typically enough, with an idea – in this case, from Jérôme Faure, group head sommelier for the Constance Hotels group of Indian Ocean hotels and resorts.