2024 OCCAM’S RAZOR RED BLEND
WINEMAKER’S NOTES
The 2024 Occam’s Razor Red Blend offers an exceptional quality to price ratio. This wine has an alluring bouquet of cassis, black cherry, blackberry, violets, Asian spices, and vanilla. The wine is full-bodied with firm tannins, high acidity, high fruit concentration, expansive mid-palate, and wonderful complexity. The wine finishes with a long finish echoing notes of cassis, black cherry, violets, 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 96 hours and a post-fermentation maceration average of 77 hours. Native fermentation was used on 80% of the lots. 25% 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 3.93, 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 568
VARIETALS 26% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot, 18% Syrah, 11% Cabernet Franc, 8% Mourvedre, 7% Grenache, 6% Touriga Nacional
APPELLATION DuBrul, Eclectic, Firethorn, Naravane, PineBrake, and Weinbau Vineyards
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.