Cutting a chic figure, Aurore Monot-Devillard has become a familiar face at the annual La Paulee Burgundy tasting organised by Vintage Wine Club in Singapore. Seated next to her at dinner though, I hardly have time for a chat as she’s often squired away by fellow Burgundy vintners and wine aficionados alike. “When your job is also a passion, you never really stop working because most of the time, you don’t feel like it’s work,” she later tells me, adding she knows how lucky she is. The veteran executive continues, “But that can also be a trap, because the job needs you to be enduring, persevering and highly fatigue-resistant.” In any case, the typically Bourguignon food paired exceptionally well with the wines that night, not least as Aurore says, “because…