Michael Juergens was pleasantly surprised when he went to Bhutan to run a marathon. "I was taken aback to see how fertile the valleys were. So I naturally assumed the country had wineries," recalls the senior partner at Deloitte and a certified sommelier. Surprised to realise there weren't any, he wrote a white paper on why and how Bhutan could grow world-class wine, and sent it to the government. The government was so interested in his proposal that it decided to donate the land and partnered with him on the project.
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