The vineyard names have always been a bit confusing since all the Northern sites were named Merkin something or other, but the grapes from those sites have historically only gone into Caduceus wines. Trust that we had our reasons, but those reasons no longer apply. So we’re officially renaming the Northern AZ sites to make things a bit easier to understand. Merkin East will now be known as Caduceus Cellars “Marzo block” as most if not all of these grapes go into Nagual del MARZO. Merkin West will now be known as Caduceus Cellars “Judith’s block” since all the grapes from this site go into the various Nagual del JUDITH wines. (Tempranillo, Nebbiolo, Aglianico) Merkin South will now be known as Caduceus Cellars “Agostino/Agostina block” for wines that will be named Nagual del Agostino/Agostina. Merkin North (yet to be planted) will now be known as Caduceus Cellars, “Sensei block” since in theory most of not all of these grapes will be used to make Nagual del SENSEI. Our intention has been to plant our best guesses of old world vinifera here in the Verde valley and over time identify the strongest, most adaptive/resilient, and most expressive of these vines and plant those “Grandfathers/Grandmothers” on the Sensei site. The Merkin YCC block will now be known as the Caduceus Cellars “Southwest Wine Center block” and the Merkin Vineyards Elephante site will be known as the Caduceus Cellars “Elephante Blocks” and broken down into North, South, East and West.