A few times each year, we get to offer a wine that’s truly unparalleled, the sort of experience we spend our entire drinking lives hunting for, that bottle that lives up to every wine lover’s loftiest dreams. Today is just such a day. We present the 2001 Château Cantenac Brown Margaux–a legendary Classified Growth from perhaps Bordeaux’s most hallowed appellation, now, at almost a quarter-century of age, at its absolute drinking peak. Typically we have to invest hundreds of dollars and decades of patience just for the chance to enjoy a bottle like this, but today we get to skip the line and indulge in Bordeaux’s glorious heights straight away. A rumbling concoction of darkly serene fruit, heady tertiary spice, and deep, soul-stirring terroir tones, Bordeaux–heck, any wine anywhere–doesn’t get much better than this. Our special pricing is the best in the nation, and comparable to current releases, so the value on display here is just off the charts. Once this tranch is gone, though, that’s it; we’ll probably never see 2001 Cantenac Brown again. Act fast.

Even among the five heralded red wine appellations on Bordeaux’s Left Bank–all of them some of the most prized agricultural land in the world–Margaux stands out. Paulliac is more powerful, Saint-Estèphe more structured, but nothing soars like Margaux. Here, with especially poor gravel soils, the vines struggle mightily. In lesser examples of the appellation, the resulting wines are pretty but thin; in the hands of proprietors like Cantenac Brown, they achieve stunning aromatic heights other appellations can only dream of, while retaining the region’s famous long-lived structure. Cantenac Brown, located on the Cantenac