Nick\nGoldschmidt has traveled the wine world. This New-Zealand born winemaker has\nworked in New Zealand, Australia, and South America, eventually landing\nin California where he settled in Healdsberg back in\n1990. He became the assistant, and then chief winemaker at Simi back in the\nearly 1990s back when Simi was still a sought after label. He is still involved\nin a number of bigger projects with large wineries but also has his own stable\nof releases, many of which are dedicated to his family, wife Yolyn and five\nchildren who are all occasionally getting some \u2018hands on\u2019 training in the\nvineyards . He still makes wine in New Zealand as well under his\nForefathers label. Guess you need\nsomething to do when it is winter here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeah, Nick\u2019s\na busy guy and a proven performer. Has he made that consummate 100 case, \u201898\npoint\u2019 red that seems to be what gets a winemaker\u2019s name up in lights? No, but our rebuttal to that is that it takes\nmore skill to make lots of good wine on a consistent basis than to make a\ncouple of barrels of something special. An important thing about Nick\u2019s own wines is\nthat he never seems to forget that most people don\u2019t necessarily want to plunk\ndown $60, $100, or more, every time they want a bottle of wine. This isn\u2019t some guy who landed in a G6 and\nproclaimed he was going to be the next Harlan. This is a guy who came up\nthrough the ranks based on talent and makes wines that have typically been\nwell-priced, outgoing, and easy-to-like stylistically. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have sold\na number of Goldschmidt wines over the years, mostly Cabernets Nick has sourced\nfrom unique vineyard spots and sold at very reasonable fares. It\u2019s great when someone like that gets a shot\nat exceptional fruit and doesn\u2019t let his ego get in the way when he is figuring\nout how to price it. Today\u2019s offer\nhowever is with a varietal that we don\u2019t necessarily associate with\nGoldschmidt, Zinfandel, from fruit that is sourced from vines planted in 1983\nin his own<\/em> Railway Vineyards in the Alexander Valley. Beyond that, it is the usual Goldschmidt\nstory. You\u2019ve got your plump, pure,\nhonest fruit crafted in a round, likeable style, and you\u2019ve got a really\nattractive price. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a little bit of a different spin than we are used with all of the other Goldschmidt wines we have sold in the past.\u00a0 Far too often Nick\u2019s wines end up being \u2018scored\u2019 in the no-man\u2019s-land of the upper 80s, which is fine for us since we like to sell the wines based on their value and appeal.\u00a0 However, this Zinfandel actually got noticed by the media.\u00a0 It is one of only three times a Goldschmidt wine has gotten a 92 from Wine Spectator.\u00a0 The other two, specialty Cabernets, sold for over $60.\u00a0 The Goldschmidt Zinfandel Fidelity Nick Goldschmidt Railyard Alexander Valley 2018<\/a><\/strong> sells for less than $20!\u00a0 It also got a Spectator \u2018smart buy\u2019 because, duh, <\/em>it is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The description\nof this tasty Zin itself in the Wine Spectator is succinct but accurate, \u201c Supple and sleek, with polished, multilayered\nfruit, showing raspberry and toasty spice flavors that glide on the lasting\nfinish…92 points.\u201d The description is\npretty much the character of every Goldschmidt wine we have ever\npresented. Ripe, round, engaging,\nvarietal, user-friendly and hedonistic, pretty much a pleasure to consume, is\nthe Goldschmidt style. His wines may not\nalways<\/em> get the attention of the critics, but they more<\/em> than\ndeliver in the glass where it counts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We decided to do a little query by asking how\nmany Zins got 92 points or better from Wine Spectator so far this year. The answer was 37, with many past $40 and a\ncouple over $60. When we put in a price\nceiling of $30, only three remained. \nUnder $20, there was but one\u2026this<\/em> one. Talk about exclusive company! This kind of recognition could be a dangerous\nprecedent. We\u2019re glad to see Nick get\nsome love. But if he is no longer under\nthe radar, there\u2019s a risk that future prices will escalate, or availability\nwill be sorely compromised. Zin lovers,\nor fans of affable reds in general, should buy up this juicy value while they\ncan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nick Goldschmidt has traveled the wine world. This New-Zealand born winemaker has worked in New Zealand, Australia, and South America, eventually landing in California where he settled in Healdsberg back in 1990. He became the assistant, and then chief winemaker at Simi back in the early 1990s back when Simi was still a sought after … Continue reading “‘THROWBACK’ ZIN VALUE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[701,700,500],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3659,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions\/3659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}