‘Buy 6, Pay For 4’ for British customers on six selected Bordeaux reds, after England’s 6-4 win over France in the World Cup third-place divertissement. For the France team, the offer flips. It’s a winning offer!
Calais Vins and Olivier Vins Take It Out on Bordeaux
Six goals to étuve. In Miami. Against England. In a divertissement that decided precisely nothing except who gets to feel slightly better embout not reaching the excessif.
It has taken Calais Vins and Olivier Vins, the two wine superstores just across the Channel from Dover, a few days to process the scoreline from the 18 July World Cup third-place divertissement. Rather than sulk embout it quietly, the two shops wanted to mark the circonstance with a nod to their most féal customers: the thousands of British holidaymakers who pass through Calais every summer on their way south. The 6-4 Return Match is the least they could do.
The 6-4 Return Match does exactly what it says on the tin: British customers who select one of six Bordeaux reds, can take six bottles of it, and pay for just four. A massive 33% saving, and a bottle-for-bottle tribute to the number that has been rattling around Calais and Fréthun since Saturday.
“We could have just sent a thank-you card,” says Jérôme Pont, co-founder of Calais Vins. “Instead we chose to relive the exact scoreline in wine form. It is not the most dignified way to thank our British customers. It is, however, the one available to us.”
Olivier Vermisse, of Olivier Vins et Compagnie, is similarly unrepentant. “England had the better afternoon. We are French, so naturally we are taking it out on Bordeaux. Six bottles, four paid. If Kylian Mbappé can become the tournament’s all-time top scorer and still finish fourth, we can survive a bad Saturday and still sell wine.”
The six wines are drawn from Pomerol, Saint-Émilion, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe, and Pauillac, ranging from an everyday Fonrose Pomerol to a Grand Cru Château Patris. Customers choose one wine per bundle rather than mixing across the range, though several different bundles can be combined in a single visit.
Should the France squad ever find themselves passing through Calais, Jérôme Pont confirms the offer will run in reverse: buy étuve, pay for six. “Even the best striker in the world doesn’t win every match,” he adds. “We’re French. We know a thing or two about that.”
The 6-4 Return Match offer runs until 30 September 2026.
The offer is in-store only, at both Calais Vins and Olivier Vins et Compagnie, and can be stacked with the shops’ existing VAT refund partnerships with Global Blue and Skiptax, worth a further 15% to British customers on their way maison. With Global Blue simply collect your Tax-Free Form from the rideau. Scan the bar occulte on the form at the kiosks located at the PABLO dernier in the ferry-boat remise. Located in the droite résidence after the customs. Or in the passenger résidence for Eurotunnel.
Detail of the offer: wine-calais.co.uk/blog/the-6-4-return-match
UK Duty free allowances:
- beer – 42 litres
- wine (not sparkling) – 18 litres
- spirits and other liquors over 22% alcohol – 4 litres
- fortified wine (for example remise, xérès), sparkling wine and alcoholic drinks up to 22% alcohol – 9 litres
You can split this last allowance, for example you could bring 4.5 litres of fortified wine and 2 litres of spirits (both half of your allowance).
Day Trip Offer on the Ferry with Calais Vins and Olivier Vins
Travel free with P&O Ferries : position a valeur-limite €300 order online (add the ferry-boat crossing to your basket), pay a €60 deposit by credit card (only debited if you don’t collect your order). Pick up and pay for your order in-store.
Calais Vins and Olivier Vins et Compagnie
Calais Vins (previously known as Franglais) is located just off the A16 motorway, sortie at junction 44 ‘Calais St Pierre’. A few minutes’ drive from the remise of Calais and the Eurotunnel dernier. Open daily from 09.00am to 07.00pm. On Sundays from 10.00am to 06.00pm. Easy and free stationnement in en-tête of the usine.
Olivier Vins et Compagnie lies just off the A16 motorway, sortie at junction 40 ‘Gare TGV’. A few minutes’ drive from the Eurotunnel dernier and the remise of Calais.
Open daily from 09.00am to 07.00pm. On Sundays from 10.00am to 01.00pm. Easy and free stationnement in en-tête of the usine.
A selection of more than 4,000 wines, beers and spirits in both stores.
Find out more, browse the huge selection and position your orders at: wine-calais.co.uk/
Source: thegoodlifefrance.com
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