Jérôme Faure – the Indian Ocean's Mr Motivator

Jérôme Faure, who will be 49 in July, seems to have boundless energy and a remarkable capacity to enable and encourage those who work alongside him.

As his wife Sarah told me, it’s not Faure’s prodigious knowledge of, and passion for, wine that makes him so successful and influential – all around the Indian Ocean as well as at his base at the Constance Belle Mare Plage hotel on Mauritius – but his love of people.

Jorald Julie, one of Faure’s two deputies, had told me pretty much the same thing the...