Napa Valley is teeming with top class new wineries. One that has me extremely excited is Brilliant Mistake Wines, which was started by John & Stacy Reinert. Brilliant Mistake Wines utilizes each coming from different backgrounds to be proprietors of their new business. While dating both would frequent the Napa Valley and were inspired by the wines made by Thomas Rivers Brown and Juan Mercado amongst others.
At the helm is winemaker Maayan Koschitzky, formerly working for cult projects such as Screaming Eagle, Dalle Valle, and serving as director of winemaking at Atelier Melka. Their first vintage was in 2013, as this project has been a great success. Wines are very limited production and source from esteemed sites including the famed ‘Beckstoffer Vineyard Georges III.’
The wines are not overblown and jammy. Each bottling has incredible structure and finesse, showing power of the 2019 vintage but also really good loamy terroir, The 2018 Brilliant Mistake ‘Napa Valley’ Cabernet Sauvignon (OB, 95) is impeccably balanced, with a seamless texture and really good range. Even better is the sinfully good 2019 Brilliant Mistake ‘G3’Cabernet Sauvignon (OB, 99) which is one of the great wines that I have tasted in the past year. Flirting with perfection, this shows violets and incredible richness yet remains light on its feet and finishes exceedingly long.Learn more at brilliantmistakewines.com Here are the incredible new 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon releases by Brilliant Mistake.
2019 Brilliant Mistake ‘Napa Valley’ Cabernet Sauvignon- Sourced from a host of Napa Valley Vineyards, the 2019 Brilliant Mistake Cabernet Sauvignon unveils pretty black rose petal tones alongside creme de cassis, graphite and freshly tilled soils on the nose. The palate is complex and very decadent with silky tannins that frame a massive core of black and blue fruits, alongside shades of wet rock, mocha, tar and sweet pipe tobacco. Quite sumptuous on the mouth, yet showing gobs of finesse, this scintillating new bottling is sure to gratify over the next fifteen to twenty years. Drink 2021-2038- 96
2019 Brilliant Mistake ‘G3’ Cabernet Sauvignon- This inky colored wine is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon which was sourced from the famed Beckstoffer vineyard. The nose is highly perfumed with creme de violette, tar and Turkish coffee tones that all sing in unison. The palate shows serious heft but is incredibly elegant, effortlessly gliding throughout the drinking experience. Ripe dark currants collide with chocolate covered espresso bean, huckleberry cordial and suggestions of creosote. Scintillating and thrilling to consume right now, this silky 2019 ‘G3’ will surely have another twenty years in front of it. Drink 2021-2042- 99