The Winner's Tank
Château Lynch-Bages
Grand Cru Classé Pauillac Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 1989
Cliff Lede Vineyards
Songbook Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
Annual Cliff Lede valentine's dinner in their tank room. Always a great time with wine, food, live music (plenty of pours on the wine)
WINES:
2015 FEL Brut sparkling
2021 Cliff Lede Marla Blanc(semillon)
2020 FEL Pinot Noir
2019 Cliff Lede High Fidelity cab
2009 Cliff Lede Songbook cab
2019 Cliff Lede Songbook cab
DINNER:
Appetizers of Kumamoto oysters, Maine lobster arancini, goat cheese coquette.
Beet Salad
Potato gnocchi with truffle
Prime beef tenderloin with truffles
Chocolate framboise and red velvet cake — 3 years ago
Tan Fruit
Tank Fruit Eola-Amity Hills Chardonnay 2019
Very nice — 6 months ago
Jones Family Vineyard
Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
Birthed the year we were married and one of the more stunning producers we learned to embraced.
Love you endlessly Sofia! ❤️
Just picked when we were married & likely still in tank.
I can’t tell you enough how much you need to find a well aged & stored bottle. — a year ago
I actually have 2 mags of the 07 Jones. I’ll save for the day we finally get together and grieve & commemorate the loss of our wives.
Goyo Garcia Viadero
Joven de Vinas Viejas Ribera del Duero Tempranillo 2017
Deep Violet color with aromas of dark fruit, licorice, floral and earthy herbs, non-oaked aged from dry-farmed vineyard planted entirely to Tempranillo at high elevation, tank fermented and bottled without fining, filtration or SO2. On the palate flavors of ripe blackberry, licorice, earthy herbs and tobacco notes. Drying fine tannins, medium finish ending with earthy notes. Drink now! — 3 years ago
Boundary Breaks Vineyard
Bubbly No. 356 Dry Riesling 2019
Incredibly consistent, 2018 notes fully apply. We love this wine, so fresh, so fun, so inexpensive via the Wine Club.
Nose has warmed green apple, lemon-lime seltzer, stainless steel and dry sandstone.
Palate has dried apple chips, frozen peach, tart green apple flesh with light sweetness and a dry finish.
Manually carbonated via soapstone bubbler in a pressure tank. — 4 years ago
Domaine Huet
Le Haut-Lieu Demi-Sec Vouvray Chenin Blanc 1985
The difference 40 years makes is maybe just a thin wooly blanket.
Pull it back and this thing's full of life - bright, vibrant, gas in the tank.
It’s brighter yellow than tired gold. Theres more fruit than decay. Sour apricots and yellow canned peaches, white popcorn and greasy bacon, and that foggy musk.
Acid rips through and does not give. Barely sweet with the demi-sec tag thats written right there but I'm not buying it.
Tonight this is 40 years old, just gettin' goin, just like me. — 8 months ago
Domaine de la Charbonnière
Les Hautes Brusquières Cuvée Spéciale Châteauneuf-du-Pape Red Rhone Blend 2005
Beautiful wine I had last night. Still has a few more years left in the tank. Seamless with no hard edges. — 2 years ago
Tank Garage Winery
Ancestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Sierra Foothills Barbera 2020
This is bizarre but excellent, very dry, traditional out of a unique varietal — 3 years ago
Tank Garage Winery
The Heavy Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Blend
Bold and smooth. Just how I like em. — 5 years ago
Jay Kline
Opened and decanted hours prior to dinner; enjoyed over the course of a couple hours. The 1989 appears a deep garnet color with a near opaque core; medium viscosity with moderate staining of the tears. On the nose, the wine is vinous with notes of tart, ripe, and dried fruits: cassis, blackberries, black cherry, black plum, tobacco, Poblano pepper, mixed dried flowers, some cocoa, pencil shavings, dried green herbs, a touch of leather, some organic and gravelly earth and fine warm spices. On the palate, the wine is dry with medium+ tannin (integrated) and medium+ acid. Confirming the notes from the nose. The finish is long. Fabulous stuff with plenty of fuel left in the tank. Drink now through 2039. — 3 months ago