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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
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.
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:
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.