www.privatecellar.co.uk

Private Cellar is our local wine supplier with close connections to the school – our Managing Director was a parent, and Josh is an Old Elean. At Private Cellar, we offer advice to private collectors on building their wine cellars and provide excellent drinking wines for alumni dinners, school events, and wine tastings for parents – we endeavour to help the school to maximise its fundraising efforts.

Private Cellar connects wine drinkers and collectors with brilliant, often under the radar gems that you won’t find elsewhere. Our personal, down to earth approach sees our globe-trotting Master of Wine, Nicola Arcedeckne-Butler MW, forging strong relations in the vineyards, winkling out the best quality and value in classic and modern styles, and our talented and experienced team loves nothing more than sharing these with you. It’s the reason our customers come back to us again and again: traditional wine merchanting, but better.

In May 2025 we celebrated our 20th anniversary and whilst we are young, by wine merchant standards, we have many years of experience. Our senior team is made up of our most knowledgeable wine experts, including our Master of Wine, with another studying hard for the prestigious MW qualification (there are currently just 422 MWs in the world). Many of us had previously worked together in venerable firms where we served our wine apprenticeships and were soundly trained, so we were a well-honed team from the first day we started our business in 2005.