Newsletters
 September, 2012
Dear Customer,
And so to our usual verbiage: our newsletters can be unfashionably verbose, so if you prefer to go straight to a particular topic, the main headings are below.
General
You will see a few changes at Boursot's Wine Collection over the coming months. First, we have taken on an additional person as our business continues to grow thanks to your kind support. Kevin Malosse joins Jean-Bertrand de March and me to help you find the right wines for your requirements.
There are also building works in, and more appropriately in the cellars under, our shop. This should not disrupt trading at all but we apologise in advance if it sounds like the earth is moving under your feet -it probably will be! We hope to be able to show off our new entertainment and storage areas soon.
In the meantime, the price of shopping in France has been coming down, with a weakened euro against the pound. Today the euro rate is around 1.25 to the pound.
In case you should ever wonder, before VAT the UK duty currently stands at £1.90 per bottle of still wine and £2.43 on each bottle of sparkling wine. Add 20% VAT to both the duty and to the value of the wine and you have ... a very unhappy situation for UK wine drinkers. With the average sale price of a bottle of wine in the UK being £4.55, this means that around 60% of the cost of that bottle is now consumed in tax.
In France there is only a negligible rate of duty on wine, thanks to the country being a major supplier of wine. So, its tax still remains at an almost non-existent rate of around £0.02 per bottle!
Many of you say the same thing -epitomised by one happy customer not so long ago "One has to be crazy to buy wines in England. Virtually no choice on the high street and when you can find something interesting, it's ridiculously expensive... This (coming to Ardres) is so much fun, it's so easy, we make a day of it and everyone is happy".
On our list you get a good selection of French wines here in Ardres with some huge savings over UK prices. You can rest assured that all the wines on this list, starting at just 2,90€ (around £2.30) per bottle, have been tasted and selected by me as being "good" in their own different ways -it's then simply a question of your personal preferences and of course everyone has different tastes.
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Boursot's Reduced Cross Channel Fares
As you probably know by now, we have agreed a a new special favourable crossing rate with P&O. for our customers.
What P&O has also done is to offer you the same rate for a Day Return as for an Overnight Stay (meaning returning before midnight the following day). So if you have a longer drive from Britain or Ireland, or simply want to take it easy, you can book at this advantageous rate at no premium. And if you should need them, we can always help you with ideas of where to stay in the locality.
Assuming you book through this through this link, for a car and up to 9 passengers, prices are from £22 for travel every day except Saturday when the rate will be £25. There may be some specific supplement dates but provided there's availability and that you're travelling in a standard car, you will pay these low rates. This link is also accessible through the Offers page of our website.
For those of you in the South East who simply want to hop across and collect your wines, there is also an Afternoon Rate of £19, meaning leaving after midday and returning before midnight. So, after buying your wines, you will also be able to fit in some fine dining!
We hope you find this helpful.
In case you didn't know it already, we should point out that Tesco clubcard points can be exchanged for Eurotunnel tickets, although it may not be possible to use these in conjunction with an existing Offer.
You may have seen that Eurotunnel has bought part of the old SeaFrance fleet. They are said to have smartened up the ships and they are leasing them to a (hopefully better behaved!) workers' group based in Calais. Myferrylink.com is the name of the new company and in time, you should expect to see some attractive offers coming from them. You get no prizes for guessing their web address!
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Boursot's Hotel Offers
We have a list of local hotels, B&Bs, restaurants, golf clubs and places of interest on our website under the Local Info button from our Home Page - or directly here. Whilst talking about Local Info, we also list the Bank Holidays so that you do not find, on getting here, that everything is closed (except Boursot's Wine Collection of course which remains open every day except Sundays and Mondays and over Christmas).
If you are a "foodie" we are pleased to bring you a new offer from the 4 star Hostellerie de 3 Mousquetaires which is about 30 minutes' south of Ardres in Aire sur la Lys. Here you will enjoy a cosy atmosphere and fine cuisine as some of you will recall after some of our spectacular dinners there in January. Chef proprietor David Wojtkowiak worked at the Berkeley Hotel in London before setting up his own restaurants in northern France and so speaks good English.
This offer is available to you during the week but not at weekends. Normally a room for two costs from 115€, breakfast 15€ per person and dinner typically 45€ per person: total 235€. The offer to Boursot's Wine Collection customers is an all-in price of dinner, bed and breakfast for two at 92€ per person. When you book, you must mention Boursot's Wine Collection to get these special terms. You can call on +33 321 39 01 11 or there is a booking form on:
www.hostelleriedes3mousquetaires.com/fr/reservations.php
Also, as a Boursot's Wine Collection customer, you will receive reduced rates at the 4 star Hôtel Château Tilques between here and Saint-Omer, of 129€ per room Sundays to Fridays and 159€ for Saturday nights; these prices are per night for two people, including breakfast and are of course offered subject to availability. When booking, please mention Boursot to get your special rates.
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Our UK online wine-related gift boutique, Grapes & Vines Gift Designs, continues to grow. There are all sorts of wine related goodies - from USB flash drives disguised as corks, framed copies of our exclusive Nick Newman wine cartoons (that you may have admired in our shop), natural wine soaps, wine map tea towels, sterling silver tastevin cufflinks, claret jug decanters, electric corkscrews as well as many more wine accessories. A novel recent arrival is a chandelier made up of wine glasses! All these make great presents for wine lovers and you can order these online and the items will be delivered to you at home within a few days. Many of these items are also available to look at in our Ardres shop from where you can of course collect.
Several gifts have been specifically designed and made for us, so you will not find them elsewhere. There are many more items to appear so do please keep looking or sign up via this page to receive direct updates via ezine or Twitter.
The Blog is constantly adding new articles and the wine related ones have been written by yours truly.
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Your Own Events in France
You may know it already but we are often asked to help organise various social events - for groups such as Golf Clubs, Rotary Clubs, U3A, Wine Clubs, Car Clubs, birthday parties, office parties, pre-wedding parties etc.
Typically, when planning your event, we would discuss your desired objectives and work backwards from there. We can liaise on your behalf with local restaurants and if required, hotels. Being locals, often we are allowed to provide our wines in local restaurants at our shop prices and with no cost of "corkage" to you.
As mentioned previously the Hotel Le Relais on the green in Ardres has now closed. We had been hosting many groups' lunches and dinners there over recent years -however we are using other restaurants in Ardres that can happily accommodate your needs and provide good quality food at a sensible price, while we can provide our wines at shop prices. Typically a four course lunch or dinner works out at 27€ all-inclusive and six wines work out at 8€ per person.
Depending on whether you would like it, I can talk a little about the various wines being served, probably concluding with some entertaining words about what's going on in the World of Wine. These events are always fun and they are different: with only 23 miles across that English Channel, but a million miles away in cultural terms, people always seem delighted to get away for a complete change of scenery and for a bit of French life.
With our advantageous deals on cross channel fares as well as with local restaurants and hotels, you can really entertain your guests here in northern France at extraordinary value.
In addition of course, I am happy to travel to you to present wine related events to your groups or dinners.
Do please contact me by phone or or through my speaker website guy@boursot.com to explore your options.
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Forthcoming Boursot Events
All our customer lunches and dinners are of course held in English. Vegetarian and alternative food options can also be provided, as long as we receive notice at the time of booking. Please contact us on ardres@boursot.co.uk or on +33 321 36 81 46 to book for any of our events below.
If a guest speaker is unable to attend, we will endeavour to find another speaker and if none is available, Guy Boursot will present the talk.
Boursot's Wine Collection is usually open on the Sunday morning after a Saturday night dinner.
Saturday 13th October: Anniversary Gourmet Dinner at Hotel Atlantic, Wimereux - An Evening with Simon Hoggart
Our Ardres shop opened in 2006 and each year, we celebrate the shop's birthday by hosting tastings of cheese, chocolate and wine, and we often include an event such as a bakery visit or a visit to the underground parts of Ardres. And then for our Dinner we are always pleased to lay on a great guest speaker. In previous years we have had Paul Bouchard, Patrick Leflaive, Charles Metcalfe and Simon Hoggart.
This year Simon Hoggart has kindly agreed to come back as our guest presenter so, for those of you who missed his appearance at last year's Anniversary Dinner, we still have a few places remaining.
I am sure that Simon Hoggart needs little introduction to most of you but he is the Guardian's political sketch writer as well as the wine columnist for The Spectator. In addition of course he was for 13 years the chairman of BBC Radio 4's comedy show "The News Quiz". With his inimitable insight of politics and wine, wrapped up with his incisive humour, you can be assured of a highly entertaining evening.
Tickets for this Gourmet Dinner will be, as last year, 96€ (around £77) per person to include a champagne reception, four course dinner and five more wines. And of course all entertainment - and there should be plenty of that!
We had blocked off rooms at the Atlantic but these have all been taken up now. However there are several other hotels in the town including the Hotels Saint-Jean, du Centre, Esperanza and Cyprin (also known as the Carnot).
Over 50% of available places have been reserved to date.
Saturday 17th November: Bordeaux Dinner - "Up to Margaux"with Pierre Brousse-Schyler of Château Kirwan, 3ème cru classé Margaux. At Hôtel Château Tilques
This will be one of our "great" dinners: we are honoured to have with us the head man from one of the most respected chateaux in Bordeaux. Classified as a 3rd growth in 1855, Château Kirwan in Margaux is nowadays back on top form, producing some stunning and widely acclaimed wines.
Our venue will be the four star Hôtel Château Tilques between Ardres and Saint-Omer and because this will be such a major Boursot dinner, we will be trialling menus beforehand to ensure the highest possible quality of food to go with the great wines.
You can of course ask Monsieur Brousse about all matters Bordelais and I'm sure that he will be up for a bit of lively discussion! Tickets for this Gourmet Dinner are 84€ (around £67) per person for this four course dinner. At the last count, it looks as if we will be comparing a pair of dry whites at our reception, moving on to four reds from Château Kirwan, and finishing up with a Premier Grand Cru Classé Barsac. This should be a winelover's dream.
We have blocked off rooms at Hôtel Château Tilques, so please let us know if you should like to take a room from our allocation.
With 70% of seats already reserved, this is already proving to be popular so if you are thinking of coming, we suggest you react as soon as possible.
Sunday 9th December: Ardres' Christmas Market and Boursot's Christmas Lunch at La Griotte, Ardres
Ah, it's the season of Christmas markets in Europe! So easily accessible from Britain, the town of Ardres always injects some fun and colour into an otherwise grey time of the year.
From 10am that day, the annual Turkey Festival will be held about 20 minutes away in Licques, a village famed for its outdoor reared chickens and turkeys. Here, a flock of local turkeys is "shepherded" up the main street. Dotted along the route you can enjoy stew served from a huge steaming cauldron, eat roasted meat from street barbecues and you can even try out "Licquoise", a fiery local liqueur that will help to keep you warm. All for free. There are musicians and confrères and there is also a simple Christmas Market brimming with local produce. It is all typically "local French".
And then to lunch at La Griotte on the green in Ardres, which provides great quality "home cooking". The informal four course lunch will be preceded by a bubbly reception and then accompanied by a further five Boursot wines, and everything will cost just 55€ (around £44 at today's rate).
We suggest you "do" the Ardres Christmas Market after lunch by which time everyone's spirits will have been warmed up! Père Noel is normally found to be abseiling down the outside of the church at around 6pm, throwing goodies to many of the local children gathered below!
This is a fun day out and for many, makes a great start to the Christmas season. We suggest you book soon as 90% of available places have already been reserved.
Saturday 26th January: Boursot's "Blues Buster" Gourmet Afternoon and Dinner presented by David Wojtkowiak and Guy Boursot at Hotel Les Trois Mousquetaires, Aire sur la Lys
As soon as news circulated about the success of last year's Blues Buster event at the Three Musketeers, we were asked when we might repeat our formula of culinary classes, wine classes and a Gourmet Dinner combined in one event.
The idea is not so much to be taught how to cook but to experience the kitchens of a quality restaurant and be given several useful culinary tips in the preparation of the dinner that we would come to enjoy that evening. This is tutored by David, chef proprietor of the hotel who speaks English having cheffed in London.
At the same time, there will be wine masterclasses during which you can taste and compare wines from several different areas across France and learn about what is going on behind the scenes in each of these areas and more generally with the global trends.
The price of the dinner will be, as last year, 74€ (about £59) per person. We have blocked off bedrooms at the hotel, so please say if you would like to take up a room from our allocation.
Just when you thought that winter couldn't get any more grey and bleak at the end of January, here's something to introduce a bit of colour and entertainment!
You can book now for any event shown above.
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Views on the World of Wine
You often ask me as a wine presenter and writer to tell you my thoughts about what appears to be happening currently in the global wine market. Here are my latest thoughts!
We are sad to announce that the Hotel Le Relais on the green in Ardres has now closed down and will no longer be a hotel. This leaves Ardres with no hotel (several B&Bs though) and whilst everyone would agree that the rooms were simple, very often they did the trick as a staging post for travellers with decent food and a comfortable bed. From our point of view, it is sadder still as the restaurant used to host very well many of our customer groups' own lunches and dinners, during which one of us might talk about the wines being served. We have alternative venues now but as an institution, the Relais' departure is sadly missed.
It's that time of the year again -harvest time. And after a year of extra-ordinary weather (these are becoming all-too-common words) there are mixed reports coming in. In Champagne, the situation seems to be very patchy and one of our suppliers talks of good "vintage" quality but a 40% reduction in volume owing to a combination of lack of sunshine, hail and mildew, adding "This year has been the worst season in Champagne for several decades". Another of our suppliers, only a few kilometres away, talks of good quality and only a marginal reduction in volume. So in Champagne at least you should expect to see some prices hardening -if you have an event to cater for in 2013, it could be prudent to get your purchases in early.
In Bordeaux, I have heard mention from a friend that the quality of the reds is superior to that of 2011 although I am usually wary of a Bordelais talking up the quality of the harvest. Picking for the quality reds of the Médoc is expected to start quite late at the end of the month as the grapes, despite showing phenolic maturity, are still showing high levels of tannin. Later picking produces increased sugars and softer tannins but the inevitable downside is a higher potential alcohol level. I, for one, really dislike some of the new Bordeaux reds coming out at 15° in which I can taste more burn or alcohol than fruit. Consequently I would not buy those wines by choice.
Dry whites are mostly in already, and the quality does look good.
If you are coming to our Margaux dinner in November you will be able to ask Pierre Brousse, owner of Château Kirwan for his thoughts. By then, his grape juice will be turning into wine so one can get a more balanced analysis of the situation.
Conditions in Burgundy this year have been very difficult and there has been much storm damage, poor fruit-set after flowering and there has been mildew. Consequently the harvest which has just started in the Côte d'Or will be small.
From the 2012 harvest across European vineyards, you may see some labels that state that a wine contains egg or milk. Do not be alarmed, this is not a novel way of making wine! It is in fact highlighting the fact that many wines are "fined" or clarified with egg whites or other agents derived from milk. These substances normally disappear after a short time.
There was a danger that this EU ruling would be applied to all wines that had been treated in this way but now it has been adapted to apply only to wines that retain traces of these products. After the showing of "contains sulphites" on labels, this is a further step towards providing more information about contents that can cause allergic reactions.
As suggested in this newsletter back in May the UK's minimum pricing plans are about to face a major challenge. Despite talk that the introduction of minimum pricing in Scotland was imminent, I understand the 50p per unit tax has not in fact been implemented yet. The Scotch Whisky Association launched an official complaint and now Bulgaria has sent a formal objection to Brussels, so now it is down to the EU to decide whether this tax on an agricultural product is "legal". Our view remains the same: the tax will be outlawed, so the Scottish and English parliaments will have to think again.
You may have seen our tweet some weeks ago about the noise in Burgundy when it was (finally) announced that a Chinese casino owner had bought the 13th century Château de Gevrey-Chambertin after the death of its owner. The property was on the market for a year with a price tag of 3.5 million euros but no potential purchasers were able to raise the money; the price went up to 7 million and a Chinese businessman bought it for 8 million! Nobody can really complain but the fear among the Burgundy vignerons is that this purchase could lead to increased interest from outside investors. This area has always retained a closed shop mentality and previously land only transferred between other Burgundians: probably not very much in the spirit of modern Europe!
However this château was more an icon than an important wine producer and the new owner is said to be passionate about Burgundy and is not looking for a financial return. Apparently he wants to pour money into the old building which may then be turned into a conference centre.
Inheritance tax remains a major issue in France and all too often we hear of owners who feel obliged to sell up rather than pass on their family's increasingly valuable asset to the next generation who would be "clobbered" by tax.
The village of Saint-Emilion produces a lovely softer style of red Bordeaux wine thanks to its higher proportion of the softer Merlot and Cabernet France grapes -somewhat different to the Médoc area across the Gironde estuary that produces reds with more of the sturdy Cabernet Sauvignon grape. All too often you will have seen the words Grand Cru Saint-Emilion which seem to offer a guarantee, or at least a suggestion, of additional quality.
Unlike the Médoc's five tier Cru Classé system that was devised in 1855 and remains largely untouched, the best wines in Saint-Emilion are reviewed each 10 years by blind tasting. But inevitably there are huge financial consequences of promotion or demotion in such a review. In ascending order of quality, the tiers in this classification are Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classé and Saint-Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classé (within which there is further differentiation "B" and at the summit, "A"). Confusing, huh?
2012 has just seen the publication of the new 10 year reclassification and it includes 82 Grand Cru Classé properties. Those that have been denied what they expected complain that there have been inconsistencies in the judging and are threatening legal action to overturn the judgments, which could throw the classification into disrepute and even temporary collapse - again. It is early days yet but I'll let you know more as any drama unfolds.
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Bio-Dynamic Calendar
As hard to comprehend as it all seems, so many top vineyards around the world are now practicing bio-dynamic viticulture that it is increasingly difficult to ignore this phenomenon. And over recent months, researchers in Germany have stated categorically that bio-dynamic wines do taste better than conventionally made wines. It is not for nothing that most major British supermarket chains only show off their wines to the Press on "Fruit"or "Flower"days! The other two elements "Root"and "Leaf"do not produce "bad"days as such, but you may find that your wines do not taste quite so open and fruity on these days.
On our home page at www.boursot.co.uk we show an indicator as to how your wines might taste today! There is then a link in the panel which will take you to an article "wot I wrote"in which I have tried to précis some information on this curious phenomenon which remains largely unproven scientifically.
Treat our indicator as a talking point and as a bit of fun - you tell me if you have noticed any difference between tasting the same wines on different element days!
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Wine Tourism
Whilst much of Europe has been relatively slow to catch on, nowadays France's vineyard areas in particular have really embraced wine tourism. You just have to visit Epernay, Beaune or Bordeaux to appreciate how wine tourism has been accepted and developed and whilst you can try dropping in on whoever will see you, many of the top domaines will only see you as part of an officially recognised group.
So if you should like to visit one of France's viticultural areas, do go to our vineyard tours company on www.overthetoptours.net - we will take you behind the scenes in many of the great vineyard areas where you will meet and often dine with some of the producers. Alsace, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Languedoc, Loire and Rhône are all areas that we visit and where we have great contacts who are happy to greet us and let us taste a wide selection of their wines.
We tailor private tours specific to your preferences, so if you have a group of friends or colleagues whom you would like to get together on a vineyard tour, please do contact me on info@overthetoptours.net and we can start working out a schedule and budget. We do all the planning and booking for you and our all-in prices are surprisingly reasonable (probably unbeatable!) - all you will need do is to come along and enjoy a trip of a lifetime!
As a testimonial from one of our recent trips for 24 people to Burgundy, just take a look at this:
"People are still talking about the wine trip. Those that went have had great fun telling those that didn't just what they missed. The 49 wines tasted have somehow become 100 and the light lunches and dinners magnified out of all proportion. We must look for somewhere else to take them another year." JM -June 2012
Twitter and TripAdvisor
Our Twitter address is @Boursots_Wine. Do please feel free to mention us and our wines if you are happy with what we do, and we will be pleased to retweet your comments to our own followers.
We were pleasantly surprised to find recently that shopping experiences were also included under TripAdvisor. This was after a happy customer posted a complimentary remark about her experience here. So, again, if you are happy with what we do, please help us by telling others by posting your comments there.
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The Boursot Family History
As you probably know, I am fortunate enough to come from a very long family line in the wine business, passed from father to son continuously since the mid-16th century. Indeed it is one of the longest family lines in the wine world.
I was very pleased to learn some weeks ago that the historian Dr. Rodney Gilbert had taken the Boursot family as a project and given a presentation in Australia on my family's history since the 18th century. Rodney Gilbert has extra-ordinary access to international historical records and with a keen eye to detail, he sent me a copy of his presentation which took the theme "History captured in a 150 year old 1862 photo - The Boursot Family". As an insight into European social history, I believe this makes a very "interesting read" on www.boursot.co.uk/boursot_history.html and I hope that you too might enjoy it.
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Boursot's New List
You can always see our latest list on this link and if you would like to print it, it's available on this link. In case you are seeing an old version of the price list, try pressing Ctrl and F5 simultaneously on your computer so as to refresh the page.
This, together with the October list, is probably the most comprehensive list of the year for all the obvious reasons. From November the list will begin to contract again until April of next year. If there is something that attracts your eye now, that you'd like us to put on one side for you, just say and we'll be happy to arrange it.
New items this month:-
| Sauternes de Rayne-Vigneau, Sauternes (Bordeaux), 2003 | 17,40€ £13.70 |
| Château La Vallière, Lalande de Pomerol (Claret), 2007 | 9,40€ £7.40 |
| Château Closerie de Camensac, Haut-Médoc (Claret), 2008
(2nd wine of Château Camensac, 5ème cru) | 15,90€ £12.50 |
| Chevalier de Lascombes, Margaux (Claret), 2008
(2nd wine of Château Lascombes, 2ème cru) In wooden cases | 24,80€ £19.50 |
| Sarget de Gruaud-Larose, Saint-Julien (Claret), 2006
(2nd wine of Château Gruaud-Larose, 2ème cru) | 27,40€ £21.60 |
| Napoléon, Vieille Réserve, Premier Cru Cognac de Grande Champagne,
Claude Thorin, 40% In gift box | 39,50€ £31.10 |
Returning wines this month:-
| Bourgogne Chardonnay, Domaine Rossignol-Trapet (Burgundy), 2009 | 10,90€ £8.70 |
| Clos de l'Oratoire, Blanc, Châteauneuf du Pape (Rhône), 2011 | 20,20€ £15.90 |
| Château Haut-Bellevue, Cru Bourgeois Haut-Médoc (Claret), 2008 | 10,40€ £8.20 |
| Sancerre Rouge, Domaine Franck Millet (Loire), 2010 | 12,60€ £9.90 |
| Château Tour du Pas Saint-Georges,
Saint-Georges Saint-Emilion (Claret), 2009 | 12,80€ £10.10 |
| Château Loudenne, Cru Bourgeois Médoc (Claret), 2006 | 14,50€ £11.40 |
| Gevrey-Chambertin, Vieilles Vignes,
Domaine Rossignol-Trapet (Burgundy), 2007 BIO-DYNAMIC | 26,30€ £21.00 |
| Crème de Mûre au Cognac, Claude Thorin, 18% Half Litres | 12,90€ £10.20 |
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Stocks
If there is something that attracts your eye in our current list, do call or e-mail us and we shall be pleased to put some stock on one side for you, so as to guarantee that you can have it for when you want to visit.
We also have a range of unusual sizes in wooden boxes, making smart gifts. For example, we have magnums, jeroboams (double magnums) and imperials (quadruple magnums) of Bordeaux, Champagne and Minervois, most of which are in wooden boxes at very sensible prices. As with our wine-related accessories, these make beautiful and unusual gifts.
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Special Offer for September
As many of you know already, we have a special and favourable relationship with Château de Sours in Bordeaux. This is a château that is arguably best known for its still rosé wine, found widely in the UK, although as many of you have already discovered through us, it also produces an exquisite pink sparkling wine at a very attractive price. But Château de Sours, located just outside Saint-Emilion in Bordeaux, also produces some good quality red and white wines and we would like to draw your attention to these here.
In September, whilst stocks last, we are pleased to offer you:-
Château de Sours, Bordeaux Rosé, 2010 -drinking beautifully at the moment: full of dry Cabernet and Merlot fruit but it's a wine to be enjoyed over the next 9 months. |
4,20€ (about £ 3.40) in place of 6,90€ |
Half-Litres Château de Sours, Bordeaux Rosé, 2010 -this is a great size for two people; when a half bottle is not enough, yet a bottle is too much. The wine is perfect for drinking now, as the notes above intimate. |
2,70€ (about £2.20) in place of 4,20€ |
Château de Sours, Bordeaux Rouge, 2003 -the aficionados among you will recall that 2003 was that warm year that produced rich, rounder style of Bordeaux wine. This wine is of a mid-weight style and is for drinking now and over the next year. |
Bottles are available at 6,50€ (about £5.20)
Magnums are available at 15,00€ (about £12.00) |
These reduced prices are only available whilst current stocks last. So this is most definitely the time to stock up! You can reserve your order by telephoning or e-mailing us and we will be pleased to hold onto your wine until you can collect. Stocks are offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
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In Conclusion
We are constantly being told that our offering is so much more exciting and wide ranging than the equivalent retail operation in Britain. We are proud of our wine selection which, thanks to your support, has been growing and is finding a wider audience with each passing month.
We do not advertise and it is unlikely that you will read a review on us in the British media, but we have found that your word of mouth continues to be our best source of new customers. So, if you are happy with what we do, please continue to help us by telling your wine loving friends, or tweet or blog about us - or you could refer them to our "Receive Monthly Newsletter" button on the home page of www.boursot.co.uk. We will be very grateful to you.
As with all our wines, we stand by our guarantee to take back any resaleable bottles if you find that the wine is not to your taste or if you have too many bottles left over after a party.
Remember: according to HM Customs & Excise you can take back as much wine as you like from France to Britain, provided that it's for your personal consumption. If you want to take back a lorry full of wine for your own use at weddings and parties, you are perfectly within your rights to do so.
We are open from 10 to 6 from MONDAY to SATURDAY (even if it's a French or British bank holiday), and we do not close for lunch.
If you are returning from a holiday, Boursot's Wine Collection is situated just off the old main north-south road (RN943) and 5 minutes off Junction 2 of the A26. Then from Ardres to the port or the tunnel in Calais takes 15 minutes. Please let us know if you should like to visit outside our normal opening hours; with a little advance notice, often it is possible to open up or else to leave your order nearby for you to collect - and we have a secure web page on which you can leave your card details.
We hope to see you here again very soon, whether it's for our delicious and easy to enjoy Petit Pont Réserve wines at around £3 a bottle or whether it's for something more exclusive for your special dinner parties. We have them all.
A bientôt!
With all best wishes,
Guy
Guy Boursot
Wine Consultants SARL
Boursot's Wine Collection
9 Rue de l'Arsenal
62610 ARDRES
+33 3 21 36 81 46
www.boursot.co.uk
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