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Bordeaux collection
Each year our expert Xenia Ruscombe-King MW selects the best of the region’s vintage en primeur. When matured, bottled and ready to enjoy, we release the collection right here – few other supermarkets do this. The wines make superb, thoughtful gifts whether as a single bottle, mixed case or presented in a smart wooden box when you buy six of the same
What is "On the QT"?
They're the shooting stars of the wine universe, the four-leaf clovers of the vineyards... they're a special collection of exciting, unusual wines that, once the parcel is finished, you'll never see again. And now they’re available here at Cellar.
Our wine buyer and Master of Wine, Xenia Ruscombe-King, wanted to shine a light on these one-off "on the quiet" bottles created by established winemakers experimenting with different production techniques and grapes. Thanks to her detective work, a passion for beautifully made wines with stories to tell, and a bit of luck, Xenia can share them exclusively on Cellar.
Stories from Cellar
Many of our "On the QT" wines and spirits has a tale to tell about how they were made, why there are so few of them and how they were discovered by Xenia Ruscombe-King MW, Cellar's dedicated wine buyer. Here's a taster:
The lost vineyard
One of the reasons why more of this unusual red blend cannot be produced is because the Cabernet Dorsa vineyard, which the winemaker leased in 2017, was ripped out after its first and last harvest of 2018. It was removed due to local land consolidation rules, but means there’s now one less vineyard in the world where the rare Cabernet Dorsa grape grows.
The forgotten barrel of single malt
Much of this whisky's flavour and freshness comes from ageing for 27 years in this single (just one!) ex-bourbon oak cask. Once the angels had taken their share (a wonderful way of describing evaporation), there was enough whisky in that rare barrel to fill just 141 bottles.