(FORTUNE Small Business) – If you're a member of the Korbel crowd, turn the page. If you fancy expensive bubbly, please read on. At press time in late August, Dom Perignon was scheduled to release a stash of previously sold-out vintage champagnes: a 1985 at $300 a bottle, and a 1973 for $400. It marks the debut of Dom Perignon's Oenotheque series, a library collection of old sparklers tasted annually by the house cellarmaster, who has deemed these vintages at their peak.

Unlike vintage champagnes released six to eight years after harvest, these fine wines have been maturing in Dom Perignon's French caves since they were bottled. The fortunate few who get to pop the cork will receive a quick lesson in old-vintage fineries. What do you get for all that waiting? Well, in the words of Dom Perignon's chief winemaker, Richard Geoffroy, "extraordinary effervescent sensations on the tongue and voluptuously rich flavors of white truffle and hazelnut that young champagne simply can't deliver." We trust the connoisseurs in the crowd will know what that means. But not to worry--you don't need a sophisticated palate to detect the superiority of these vintages; the flavors are clearly there.

Only 500 cases of each vintage will be available, in the top wine stores and priciest restaurants in the ten largest markets in the U.S. Additional old vintages are scheduled to be released every couple of years. So stand by, and bottoms up!

--Tara Weingarten