102 High Street

Deal

01304 611090 / 07518 949587

http://www.lepinardier.co.uk/

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Above photo February 2016. Kindly sent by Tony Wells.

Above photo 2019.

Above photo 2023.

The premises changed name from "Borough Wines" early in 2016 and is described as a Wine Shop with Bar. The name Le Pinardier translated as Wine Merchant. This holds both a on and off license.

Le Pinardier wine bar & shop takes it’s name from in the first instance, a Naval vessel built specifically for transporting large quantities of wine in its tanks. It is also widely used in France as a name for a wine seller. With it’s reduced tonnage, usually no bigger than a coaster, the Pinardier had an advanced piping system to fill it’s large tanks. They had their hour of glory in the second half of the twentieth century, frequently taking the route between the Maghreb and the French ports (Sète, Marseille, Rouen). The Pinarders also exported Bordeaux and Loire region wines to Nantes and Bordeaux.

Their decline was mainly due to increasingly drastic safety standards on the transport of foodstuffs, the numerous costs involved became prohibitive & unsustainable. Their decline can also be explained by the fact that the wine trade is no longer bulked, as wines are mostly bottled at the place of production.

LICENSEE LIST

DEZECOT Benoit 2016+