Sort some, but not all, multiple citations with biblatex

Question

Biblatex, with the sortcite option, will sort multiple citations (see Sorting of multiple citations with biblatex). I want most of my multiple citations to be sorted, but occasionally I wish to deliberately put them in the wrong order. Is there a way to achieve this?

That is, I want a macro called something like \unsrtcite, so that the TeX below will produce the following

First: [1,2] Second: [1,2] Third: [2,1]

(Obviously I could use \cite{second} \cite{first}, rather than \cite{second,first} when I want them not to be sorted but that's not quite what I want).

---

main.tex

% main.tex
\documentclass[]{article}

\usepackage[sortcites]{biblatex} 

\bibliography{references}
\begin{document}


First: \cite{first,second} 
Second: \cite{second,first}
Third: \unsrtcite{second,first} 

\end{document}

references.bib

% references.bib
@misc{first,
  title={Reference A},
  author={Alice},
  year={1980}
}

@misc{second,
  title={Reference B},
  author={Bob},
  year={2000}
}

Answer 1

You can use the \cites command for this, which doesn't sort.

\documentclass[]{article}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{first,
  title={Reference A},
  author={Alice},
  year={1980}
}

@misc{second,
  title={Reference B},
  author={Bob},
  year={2000}
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[sortcites]{biblatex} 

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}


First: \cite{first,second} 
Second: \cite{second,first}
Third: \cites{second}{first} 

\end{document}