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The Boursot family has been involved continuously with wine on both sides of the English Channel since the mid-17th century. Continuing in his family's tradition of wine, Guy Boursot worked for 17 years for Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd in London, both buying and selling wines but left them in order to rekindle his family's old wine business of A. Boursot & Co. which he then ran for 11 years.
Guy is a wine writer, lecturer, consultant, wine merchant and vineyard tour operator - and building on his solid and trustworthy reputation, he opened his own wine shop in northern France in 2006.
"Boursot's Wine Collection" is in an attractive 250 year old listed building in the pretty and historic town of Ardres, just 15 minutes south of Calais. Here you can be assured of receiving good, sensible advice and you can taste the wines before you decide.
All wines are personally selected by Guy Boursot to offer great quality for the price. Prices start from 4,40€ / £3.70 and of course offer you the huge savings obtained by buying and collecting in France. Assuming your purchases are for personal consumption you can take or receive these without paying any additional taxes across the EU.
We also deliver across the EU. However, if you wish to have wines delivered in the UK, you will have to pay the taxes imposed by the UK’s new status: £2.23 on each bottle of still and £2.86 on each bottle of sparkling wine, plus 20% VAT on these amounts. The wines still work out less expensive than if you were buying them in the UK but the savings are nothing like as great as they would have been if you had collected them. As the UK’s prices continue to rise, the differentials should increase.
Regarding travel, it has been put about that there are quantity limits when travelling back to the UK but countless customers have experienced that there are no customs checks and nobody has been asked for additional taxes, even when large numbers of cases have been clearly visible inside the car.
Via our account, currently we can get you very attractive prices on Eurotunnel so please ask us if you should like to take advantage.
If you are planning an event such as a party or a wedding, it's eminently sensible to come to Ardres, enjoy a great lunch and pick up some guaranteed quality wines at low French prices. Once discovered, visitors regularly come back to Boursot's in Ardres, not just for their wines but also for a very French experience. The relatively little known town of Ardres has a selection of restaurants, small shops and its own lakes to welcome those who want to get away from the scrums of day trippers that only know about Calais and its hypermarkets and booze bunkers.
Informative yet fun Gourmet Dinners are also hosted in English language in the locality, allowing customers of Boursot's to enjoy a complete and superior wine experience than that generally found in the north of France. See the panel on the right to see details of the next events.
Boursot's Wine Collection also offers a wine receiving service, allowing you to order directly from your favourite vineyards for delivery to its shop, so that you can easily come and collect your wines (still at the French low duty rates).
Escape for the day or the weekend and enjoy some of the finer things France has to offer - and save yourself a fortune!
Wine Consultants and Boursot's Wine Collection offer you:
- Experienced advice at whichever level you require
- Guaranteed quality wines at very low French prices
- The ability to taste before you buy
- The peace and tranquillity of an unspoilt 17th century town for your wine shopping
- A receiving service for your favourite wines
- Talks and tastings for your groups in France, Ireland or the UK
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 The vaulted cellar available for tastings
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* Guide price only
Forthcoming Events |
Saturday 20 September
Autumn Wines at
Hôtel la Matelote, Boulogne sur Mer |
The Hôtel la Matelote is on the sea front in Boulogne sur Mer and is just 25 minutes from Ardres.
The food at the Matelote is magnificent and is among the best reputed of the whole region. For what it’s worth, the hotel also has an indoor pool and health spa available for residents’ use.
Guy Boursot will talk about the 2025 harvest across France as well as other current news and discuss whether seasonality in wines has any relevance.
Because the weekend is popular in the region, we have blocked off a limited number of rooms for our guests, on a first-come first served basis. Please let us know if you’d like to take one of our rooms. Just say and we’ll do the rest, and even when the hotel’s rooms are booked out, we would recommend in the first instance the Opal’Inn a few metres along the sea front which should have some availability, and of course there is no shortage of other hotels in the town.
We will enjoy at least 6 different wine styles over an excellent 4 course dinner. Tickets are at 95€ each for all food, all wine, water and coffee and all entertainment.
E-mail ardres@boursot.co.uk for more details or to reserve your places. |
Sunday 5 October
A Tasting in the Ardres Shop followed by Lunch at Akène, Ardres’ new gastronomic restaurant |
After some years of being closed and during 2025 some months of restoration and kitting out, Akène is about to open. There is a fanfare of local publicity and this resto bodes well for Ardres and for our clients.
At noon, we propose a tasting of some of our newly arrived wines and then we will walk across the road for lunch at 12.45.
The all-in ticket price for the tasting and the 3 course lunch with 6 wines, water, coffee and all entertainment will be 70€ per person.
We expect strong demand for this lunch and so we recommend you book early.
E-mail ardres@boursot.co.uk for more details or to reserve your places. |
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Boursot's Wine Collection
9 Rue de l'Arsenal, 62610 Ardres, France
Wine Consultants SARL RCS Saint-Omer 481 778 876 00013
Tel: +33 (0)3 21 36 81 46
Email: ardres@boursot.co.uk |
OPENING HOURS
MON to SAT. 10.00-6.00
non-stop |
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