Private Cellar is the Jack Russell of the wine trade, tiny but tenacious, nipping in and snuffling out first-rate everyday wines that others either miss or require in greater quantities than are available. Private Cellar, based in Newmarket, has no shop to speak of and a staff of just eight, selling online from a commendably concise list and at their brilliant countrywide tastings.
Private Cellar’s team are all graduates of such fine oenological finishing schools as Corney & Barrow, Armit and Lay & Wheeler, and the wines they unearth are invariably excellent value and great examples of both grape and region. It was no surprise to those of us who love them that in a competition conducted recently by the Great Jancis, Private Cellar was crowned best independent wine merchant in the UK.
Fine Prosecco is like the proverbial bus: you wait ages for one to turn up and then two come along, nose to tail.
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