2002 D´Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz
Writing about this wine is one of the more useless things I can do, if only because there´s essentially a small novel on the back of each bottle, explaining the wine and its name, something D´Arenberg likes to do with each and every release from their small-ish (by Australian standards) winery.  Suffice to say that this wine fills a lot of my requirements for greatness: Concentration, style, a sense of place (terroir), age-ability, and balance.  This wine will hold well for quite a while in your cellars - it´s one of the best age-worthy wines Australia makes - and it is from a great vintage.  It runs $64.25, and it´s gone.

2003 Domaine Charvin Cotes-du-Rhone Rose
Horrors!  What´s Bear doing this time?  Putting a Rose into the Specialty Club!!  No, it´s not a sign of the onset of dementia - at least, not any more so than any of the other things I do around here - but rather the recognition of a truly great wine, no matter what form it may take.  And this is a great wine.  And it´s extremely limited, with less than ten cases for this market (all now gone).  At my recent anniversary dinner with my wife, this was one of the two wines we enjoyed with a special meal (Ovio Bistro, since you were about to ask, was the location - visit it!!!), the other being a Rebourseau Charmes-Chambertin (remember that one from an earlier club?).  It cost $18.00.  I had it with duck confit, and can recommend the experience highly.