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Inside London’s 300 year old wine cellar
National World - LocalTV
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07/03/2025
Winston Churchill is rumoured to have spent many nights here during the war.
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The Stafford London's historic wine cellars are among the oldest in London
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and house over 8,000 bottles of fine wines and champagnes. It's also a place
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where Prime Minister Winston Churchill supposedly spent many evenings during
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the war. Today I'm heading there to speak to a wine connoisseur and find out more
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about this historic part of London. We are in one of the oldest cellar in
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London. Roughly we talk about 380 years back in time and was the private cellar
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of Lady Lyttelton which at the time was they were saying that it was the
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babysitter of Queen Victoria. Well during the Second World War Stafford was
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hosting American and Canadian officers mainly so when it wasn't that safe up
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in the hotel of course they were coming down to seek shelter and hopefully maybe
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with a bottle opener would it be a little bit more fun I think. Well for
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sure of course we knew, we mostly sure that Winston Churchill passed by
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by the Stafford. He most likely was our guest in the in the bar and maybe had
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any meeting down here and we know for a fact that champagne was one of his
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favorite drink and he was saying that the perfect size to drink by himself it
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was a Magnum. Talk to me about some of the wines you've got in here. Alright so we
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have a beautiful selection of wine. We're talking about something roughly to 600
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bins, 600 different wines roughly almost there and we have a wide
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selection of course. We are quite strong on French wine with a main focus on
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Bordeaux and Burgundy. And do you have like a kind of favorite wine that's
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kept in here? Favorite wine I had, unfortunately we sold it. It was my
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assistant Cesare that sold it quite recently. It was the Mouton, Chateau Mouton
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from 1982 which we had a beautiful pleasure to last year to do the harvest
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in there and the Roger family actually served it to us on the lunch after the
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harvest and that was my favorite wine whatsoever unfortunately it's gone. This
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wine cellar feels very much rooted in London's history. Do you feel like that
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when you're here? Do you feel like you're almost a part of London history when
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you're working here? Well when you step in the cellar literally like you're
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stepping in another time that that's how it feels like because literally we
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preserve as much as we could like the integrity of it and the
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particularity without touching that much or refurbish it that much and
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literally when you step inside the cellar it's like to step back 300 years
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ago and it's just beautiful.
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