20060514: The search for Caduceus

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Nayt wishes to find an elusive bottle of wine made by the lead singer of Tool

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We all agree to begin the search. Dad, Mom, Daphne and I along with Nayt. We're on a Pink Jeep tour at the time but later when we get back to Sedona, the search will begin.

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Our tour guide on the Pink Jeep tours is describing the New Age, impossible to measure force that manifests itself as vortices around Sedona.

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Here is a nice view of canyon sides north of Sedona, Arizona

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We started our wine search at three shops in Sedona. The label of wine called Caduceus formed by Maynard James Keenan was not to be found anywhere in town. In fact, I don't believe anyone knew he existed nor his new winery.

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Nayt anticipated possible failure to find this wine in Sedona. He heard that possibly the wine vinyard was to be found in the town of Jerome, Arizona. One half hour west of Sedona, we decided to try our luck out. Here is Jerome; a town contrasted betwe

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After asking around at a lunch place where our service was measured in geologic terms, we were advised of a place called Jerome winery. It was near the top of the town. In most places, saying "top of the town" would mean perhaps north. In thi

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Dad hangs out on the outside of Jerome, AZ

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Meanwhile, inside Jerome winery, we asked about Caduceus. At first, we asked this gentleman. We wound up instead, doing a taste test of several wines. Later, a lady, who happened to know 5 languages including Japanese, French, German, English and one o

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We traveled east on Rt 89 and we saw a brown sign stating 'wine vinyard'. This was it we thought. Turning right, we drove south to Page Springs and we found the winery. Paydirt!

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We find that the winery we thought was pay dirt was in fact a disappointment. The lady in the wine shop was openly acerbic and was offended that we ask about Caduceus or Maynard James Keenan. She exclaimed that she's always asked about this so called win

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A longshot worked! It figures that Alltel comes through out here. We got on the internet and slowly searched Google for Caduceus or Maynard James Keenan. Eventually we wound up on http://www.caduceus.org/. The winery was not too far away. Yeah!!! :^)

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Not too far indeed. The winery was 400 feet away; just far enough as to be hidden from view from the other winery. So we trot over.

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The wine Caduceus has been discovered! But look at the price! There are three types, and of course it was suggested the most expensive one is the best one.

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Well, we look at it anyway, marveling at the wax-like dipping of the bottle top. No two of the drippings were the same.

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Here we are conversing with the shop owner. Our inhibitions were weakened by the joy of finding the item for which we searched for hours. What I cannot believe is that we succumbed to the addiction of shopping.

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