The Wine Programme
The Cellar isn’t a display case, it’s a working collection, drawn from and added to by the members who actually gather around it. Selections rotate through the year, built around what’s being poured at the Club’s own tastings and dinners rather than sitting untouched behind glass.
Tastings and dinners
Regular tastings bring winemakers into the room to pour their own bottles and tell the stories behind them. Dinners pair each course from the kitchen with a selection from the Cellar, built by the Club’s own team rather than left to chance.
Long Term Storage
Beneath the Club sit bottles bought a decade or more before their time, held under lock and key until they are ready. Very few cellars in the country can afford the patience, and none of it is for sale. It is simply what Members drink.
A Word from our Head Sommelier
In Portugal, my grandfather kept six bottles and considered himself a wealthy man. Here I have rather more to look after.
People ask me how I choose. I am not buying for tonight. I am buying for a Tuesday ten years from now, for a Member who has perhaps not joined us yet. And I do not buy labels. A famous name in a poor year is still a poor year.
What I enjoy most is when a Member comes down and tells me what the evening is. An anniversary. A deal finally signed. A friend out from London who thinks he knows wine. Then we find the bottle together.
A cellar that is only admired is a sad cellar. Wine is made to be opened.
— Joao, Head Sommelier
Upcoming Cellar Events
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