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looking forward to this
Did you notice James Suckling? Heās there too! 
Anyway, being a HUGE Maynard fan, I would be very interested to try this wine. Everything else heās been doing in his career has been done with 100% commitment, and this endeavor seems to be executed with similar āfanaticismāā¦
Other than the misleading thread title (Maynard prefers to keep his music personality separate from his wine personality), any boost for these Arizona-based wines is a good thing.
Personal pick: Caduceus Chupacabra red blend (zin-based blend with both CA and AZ fruit) that sells around $30. Around here, its only available at Whole Foods.
He likes his oak for sure.
Quick trivia, our own Leenda made the wines there a couple vintages back.
Not my normal universe of wine but Iāve had several of them and they are solid wines for their genre. Some of the price points seem a bit high though.
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I watched the movie 2 days ago and was a bit disappointed. The winemaking end of it was interesting enough, and they painted a great picture of the region. The attempts at humor were pretty sorely misguided. Seems pretty serious about making great wine, so I hope it works out. I donāt think heād be able to move a lot of AZ wine at that price point if not for his āday jobā though.
He is very serious and passionate about his wines.
I thought it was a fun movie and appreciated the humour, which is a bit less serious than most things wine related.
The wine prices have come down as well from where they were 1.5-2 years ago and are more in line now. My personal fav is the Naga.
Using both CA and AZ fruitāgasp!!! Is that āauthentic?ā ![[snort.gif]](/uploads/db3686/original/2X/b/bdc3944606213c4dca6c1169cf0a166c8bc4f8c9.gif "snort.gif"){kind=small}
Bruce (TFIC)
By the way: has anybody ever seen these wines on mainland Europe? Iād like to try one, if I could find itā¦
someone needs to tell him - a little less wine and a little more music.
Loved the movie.
Have enjoyed the AZ Stronghold wines
Or at least a few more live shows. I love the APC tour, hope they expand that. But also some more Tool would be very welcomeā¦
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He also seems to have a great sense of humor, putting Bob Odenkirk, Tim and Eric, and Patton Oswalt in here. I loved the Odenkirk bit about the purest wine possible.
Cheers,
-Robert
dlāing this now.
I just saw Blood into Wine a few weeks ago. I was honestly expecting it to be a trainwreck given my impressions a year or two ago of the Caduceus website (FLASH attack!) and wine pricing (very optimistically high). But Maynard James Keenan comes off as a fairly level, intense, committed guy who is doing something new without feeling beholden to Napa or critics. I also noticed most of his prices are more reasonable now.
I liked that there was some comedy interjected into the film. Kinds of takes the edge off and buffers against the bloviastic buffoonery of Suckling in his scenes. (No, it is definitely not self-parody, at least of the intentional variety, Suckling is that obnoxious.) However, I think some of the running gags just didnāt have the legs to carry through multiple scenes.
In many ways I feel like Eric Glomsky stole the show. His scenes really made a case that thereās potentially an intriguing sense of place to the Verde Valley. While I was left wondering a bit if fighting all of the problems nature threw at them would pay off, I loved that they threw it all out there instead of paving over reality with canned PR. This is definitely a region Iād like to visit if in the area.
I enjoyed the movie. The Tim & Eric bits were hilarious and a nice break to the other stuff. Hope to try the wines at some stage.
Jason
Iāve only had one of these wines (perhaps it was one that Leenda made?!? ā I didnāt know she had her hands on these ā¦). Anyways, I liked it quite a lot ā it was atypical.
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2005 Caduceus Cellars Primer Paso - USA, California, Central Coast (4/26/2009)
ā popped and poured ā
ā tasted non-blind over 2-3 hours ā
ā Syrah, Malvasia Bianca, Muscat ā
NOSE: smoke; rich raspberry and black cherry; lots of tanned leather as well as healthy dose of cumin/body odor spice; hint of brown sugary oak; and a tad alcoholic; slight speck of citrus; smells ālightā, not goopy and extracted. (A: minty)
BODY: fine particulate matter present; medium bodied; purple-garnet color of moderate depth.
TASTE: juicy red fruits; gently spicy; short-medium finish (approx. 25 sec.); hint of incense. I actually enjoyed this wine quite a lot. I would not buy at its regular price of $55, but would surely pay $30-$35. I appreciate the restraint shown in this wine ā¦ I think the small amount of white grapes used in the blend helped it achieve its nice acid/tannin balance, and added a complexity that I was not expecting.
B: 50, 5, 12, 16, 7 = 90
A: 50, 5, 10, 16, 7 = 88
Never had the wines but enjoyed the film and agree, Eric Glomsky stole the show. I did love how bored Maynerd could look while signing bottles.
Saw Blood into Wine the other night, and some parts of it were painfully hard to watch. I had high hopes for a well done wine movie, but that was not it.
I went to one of the Whole Foods bottle signings and was put off by having to buy a bottle and not being allowed to bring an inaugural vintage in to be signed. The whole 'Wizard of Oz" one person at a time set up they had in the tented area to get the signing was laughable. Maynard was actually quite chill and talkative. Glomsky was riding the rockstar ego that day. Didnāt answer a question I had for him and kept talking to someone who worked for whole foods.
As for seperating music and wine, the signing was a big ad for Puscifer, and the puscifer show in Boston was an ad for wine.
The wines themselves are good. Not worth the price I paid for some, and by the constant sale stickers on the ones at whole foods, not worth it for most.
I think Maynard could bring a lot of interest to the area, but it will be with fanboys and nubes. I think he has to take himself out of the spotlight to be beneficial in any way except as an advertisement.