Denise Dupre’s love affair with France started when her husband, former Bain Capital managing director Mark Nunnelly, proposed in the Burgundy region in 1989. “Sometimes a place grabs you,” she says. “We came back over and over again.” They must have really loved it. Visiting Burgundy has long posed challenges other winemaking regions don’t have: the dearth of luxury accommodations and the Do-Not-Disturb signs that dangle, metaphorically, from the gates of the high-profile wineries tourists want to explore.

With her latest project, in Pommard, she hopes to remove both obstacles. Dupre, whose family ran a ski resort stateside and who taught hospitality management at Harvard, is no hotel-owning dilettante. Indeed, she has already tested the template she’s rolling out here: Seven years ago,

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