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EventsForthcoming EventsPast EventsWe organise three main types of Event for our customers.
Forthcoming EventsThis Year’s Top Quality Boursot EventsYou do not need to bring a dictionary: all our lunches and dinners are held in English! And as a Boursot’s customer, SeaFrance will grant you special 36 hour crossing rates so do please ask us first. Please contact us to book now for any of our events below. Saturday 16th October: Boursot’s Anniversary WeekendBoursot’s Wine Collection was launched in 2006 so this will be our 4th Anniversary Weekend and as always it will be a weekend that revolves around enjoyment. On the Saturday afternoon there will be a Cheese and Chocolate Tasting in our vaulted cellars: do you know your French chocolates from your Belgian chocolates? There will also be several local cheeses for you to sample. Madame Dumont who runs the excellent little delicatessen in Ardres will be on hand to take you through the several differences, and can obviously supply you directly if you should wish to buy. There will also be a Wine Tasting all afternoon at our shop, from the cheaper end of the scale to some of the finer Grand Crus of Burgundy or Saint-Emilion. For those of you who are interested in the long history of Ardres, there will be conducted tours of underground Ardres (which will be free of charge to you as a customer). To my knowledge there is only one other town in the whole of France that has the ancient underground silos and bastions that can be found in Ardres. And so, then to dinner at the Hotel Atlantic in Wimereux. This is always a very special event in our calendar and this year, I am delighted to tell you that our guest speaker will be journalist and broadcaster Simon Hoggart. As you may know, Simon was chairman of Radio 4’s comedy show “The News Quiz” over 13 years, he writes the daily Parliamentary Sketch column in the Guardian, he writes on wine in The Spectator and what’s even more relevant, he has recently written “Life’s Too Short To Drink Cheap Wine” (and who could possibly disagree with that?). I am sure that Simon Hoggart needs no introduction but in case you should be wavering, you can be assured of a highly entertaining evening. Tickets for this Gourmet Dinner served up with four courses of some of the finest cuisine and washed down with six of our most interesting wines will be, as last year, at 96€ per person (around £85) to include everything. We have reserved a number of rooms at the Atlantic so please ask if you would like to stay there – rooms will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Saturday 6th November: An Audience with FaiveleyThe 185 year old Burgundy house of Faiveley in Nuits Saint-Georges has effected some big changes recently. In 1976 François Faveley took over the reins of the company from his father Guy and in so doing, he lowered vine yields and introduced such revolutionary processes as a wind tunnel to dry grapes before they were crushed. One could say that François brought in a more scientific approach to the making of the wine that carried his family name. In December 2004, François handed over the running of the company to his 25 year old son, Erwan who, after business school, worked in Philadelphia and Paris. Inexperience has not appeared to be a hurdle, and Faiveley has recently acquired additional vineyards, new pressing and fermenting equipment as well as a new source for its barrels. And to help put together all these new ingredients, Faiveley has attracted one of Burgundy’s top winemakers to make all their wines from their generic Burgundy up to their Grand Cru Cortons and Montrachets. The transformation at the house has been impressive and has led to wines with even more purity of fruit than previously and with softer tannins. This is an impressive story that will be recounted to us on our evening by Philippe Ochin, director of Faiveley in Nuits Saint-Georges. I have known bluegrass playing and Harley Davidson riding Philippe for over 20 years and he is a passionate Burgundian. He has agreed to introduce several of his new wines at a pre-dinner tasting and may well surprise you by inverting the “rules” of tasting! Burgundy is one of France’s most complex viticultural regions but with Philippe’s help, you will come to understand and appreciate some of its wines from one of Burgundy’s very finest producers. We expect to hold this prestigious dinner at one of the most famous hotels of the area, the Westminster in Le Touquet (and don’t forget to bring your golf clubs!). Tickets will be 95€ per person to include everything - the tasting, a lavish 4 course dinner and all wines and entertainment. Sunday 12th December, Christmas Market: Lunch at Hotel Clément.We are of course flattered that some of you have already booked for our 2010 Christmas lunch which has become the fun highlight of the year. Last year rather than spoon more people into the lunch, we had to turn people away after the numbers got to 60, so this year if you would like to guarantee your places, we can happily take your bookings now. That morning the annual Turkey Festival in the village of Licques will be held about 20 minutes away, and then I suggest you come to the lunch and then “do” the Christmas Market in the afternoon, when our spirits and the general atmosphere have warmed up! Père Noël is normally to be found abseiling down the church spire at around 6pm. The lunch comprises four courses and six wines at a price of just 49€ per person all-inclusive. It is a great inexpensive day out and accommodation can of course be arranged for you, should you wish to stay over. Please call or e-mail for tickets. |
