Hitch-hiking through Ireland in the 70s, American couple Dennis Sherman and Eleanor Garvin stood on a Galway roadside with a sign that simply read ‘ Tunisia’. They didn’t quite make it all the way to Africa but they did get a free ride to Burgundy, and as wine and food enthusiasts, it instantly struck a chord. “As soon as we arrived, Dennis and I loved it and always said that we’d come back,” Ellie, as she is known, explains.