2023 OCCAM’S RAZOR RED BLEND
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WINEMAKER’S NOTES
The 2023 Occam’s Razor Red Blend offers an exceptional quality to price ratio. This wine has a alluring bouquet of blackberry, cassis, violets, asian spices, vanilla, and espresso. The full-bodied palate has firm tannins and high acidity and wonderful complexity. The wine finishes with lovely notes of cassiss, black cherry, dark chocolate, and spice. Drinks well now but will improve over the next 5-8 years.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
The wine had a pre-fermentation maceration average of 98 hours and a post-fermentation maceration average of 74 hours. Native fermentation was used on 80% of the lots. 10% whole clusters were used to give added structure. 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 wine had an elevage of 18 months in oak and was racked three times but not fined. The wine was very lightly filtered to capture any remaining lees. The alcohol is 14.8%, pH is 3.86, and the titratable acidity is 5.7 g/L.
The oak profile is 15% new French oak (predominantly from Troncais and Alliers) and 85% neutral French oak.
CASES PRODUCED 875
VARIETALS 53% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot, 14% Syrah, 5% Touriga Nacional, 2% Tinto Cao, 2% Souza
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 is one of the guiding principles we use in our lives.