2023 OCCAM’S RAZOR CABERNET
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WINEMAKER’S NOTES
The 2023 Occam’s Razor Cabernet Sauvignon offers an exceptional quality to price ratio. This wine has a compelling bouquet of cassis, blackberry, black cherry, spice nuances, vanilla, and espresso. The palate is full-bodied with supple tannins and well delineated notes of blackberry, cassis, black cherry, vanilla, cigar tobacco, dark chocolate, and cedar. The wine is deftly balanced between the fruit extract, refreshing acidity, and moderately grippy tannins which leads to a long finish. This is a compelling wine. Drinks well now but will improve over the next 7-9 years.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
The wine had a pre-fermentation maceration average of 136 hours and a post-fermentation maceration average of 92 hours. 100% native fermentation. The wine was punched down by hand 2 times each day during macerations and fermentation. All individual wine components, including free run and press fractions, were kept separate until final blending.
The oak profile is 20% new French oak (predominantly from Troncais and Alliers) and 80% neutral French oak.
CASES PRODUCED 313
VARIETALS Cabernet Sauvignon
APPELLATION Columbia Valley
LABEL STORY
“Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitate”
There is a heuristic, or rule of thumb, attributed to 14th century Franciscan Friar and philosopher William of Ockham, called “lex parsimoniae” or “law of parsimony.” It states that, given that all things are equal, the simplest answer tends to be the correct one. Lex parsimoniae is better known today as Occam’s Razor.
Sometimes this principle gets whittled down to "keep it simple,” but that's not accurate (as this wine makes clear). The heuristic merely states that you don't need X hypotheses when Y hypotheses will do (where Y is smaller than X). It makes no guarantee that the simpler answer will be correct, it merely states that the simpler answer is more likely to be correct.
Occam’s Razor Red is one of the guiding principles we use in our lives.