v3 Chapter 1106： This is a treasure house!

Early the next morning, Xia Yu, accompanied by Curtis Dubois, an executive in the investment department who completed the acquisition by himself, went to the Romani Conti Winery.

Although the Brocher family and the Le Hua family evacuated the people from the Romanie Conti winery after selling their equity, this does not mean that no one is available at the winery.

At any rate, the Romani Conti Winery has a history of more than 900 years. Although the staff has been constantly flowing over the past nine hundred years, there are still many small families dedicated to the Romanni Conti Winery.

On the way there, Curtis Dubois first introduced Xia Yu to the details of the Romanie Conti winery.

The most important thing for the Romanni Conti winery now is the two families that have passed on for more than 400 years, namely the Noble family who specializes in winemaking and the Faulkner family who specializes in vineyard planting and fruit tree cultivation.

It is precisely because these two families have kept their hearts, they have been specializing in their respective fields for hundreds of years, and they have cooperated closely to make Romani Conti wines world-leading with super high quality.

The Brocher family and the Leroy family, which were in charge before, mainly played a role in operation and management.

So after the departure of the Brocher family and the Leva family, the influence on the Romanie Conti winery is not significant.

Burgundy is located between the Jura Mountains and the southeastern end of the Paris Basin. It is a passage between the Rhine, Seine, Loire and Rhone rivers. It is two hundred and fifty-one kilometers away from Paris.

After nearly three hours of driving, Xia Yu came to the Romanni Kandi Winery at about eleven o'clock in the morning.

Curtis Dubois immediately summoned two elders, 68-year-old Andre Noble and 62-year-old Gal Faulkner.

"Boss, this is Andre Noble."

"This is Gal Faulkner!"

"Old Noble, Old Faulkner, this is what I told you, the real owner of the winery, Mr. Xia Yuxia!"

"……"

Xia Yu’s words are mild, and it gives people a feeling of spring breeze while speaking, so that Andre Noble and Gal Faulkner have no psychological pressure, and Xia Yu’s praise and praise for them also makes them both happy.

After some small talk, Xia Yu decided to go and see his vineyard first.

Led by Gal Faulkner, Xia Yu and others came to a small hill.

According to Gal Faulkner, standing on this hill, being able to overlook a large area of ​​vineyards, will have the best visual enjoyment.

Although it is a hill, vines are still planted here. Standing on the hill, you can see rows of neatly planted vines, like dense green lines. The spacing of each row is about one meter, which is very symmetrical. , This distance should be able to achieve the best ratio between the light intensity of the grapes and the land utilization.

However, it is February, and the vines are mostly green with green buds. Although they are not as visually impactful as the dark greens in June and July, the tender greens give people a healing visual enjoyment.

At this time, standing in Gar Faulkner began to introduce Xia Yu to the whole vineyard.

"Boss, the area of ​​our manor is 1.805 hectares. From 1580 to the present 400 years, there has been no increase or decrease of even one centimeter of land."

"Although most of the vines died due to severe hail in the spring of 1945, we introduced older vines from Latahi Winery in Yeqiu. The original vines of Latahi Winery had root nodules. The vines were introduced from our estate after the pest infestation, so the vines in our vineyard are still pure Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, and the trees are nearly 50 years old, and the quality is very stable..."

Gal Faulkner pointed to the busy workers in the distance, and continued to introduce Xia Yu: "Now our manor does not have any mechanized equipment. The grape planting and care are completely manual, no chemical fertilizers are used, and other chemical methods are used as little as possible. After the grapes have matured, only skilled workers are allowed to pick them. After harvesting, strict screening is required to screen out the good grapes before they are used for brewing..."

Xia Yu smiled and nodded in satisfaction.

In the era of ever-changing winemaking technology, more scientific winemaking techniques are widely used in winemaking, but Romani Conti chose to be out of touch with the times.

However, it is precisely because the cultivation, management, picking, and brewing of the Romani Conti vineyards are not particularly different from those when winemaking began in the 11th century. This inheritance and persistence of traditions keeps the Romanni Conti wines as always. Super high quality is an important reason for being sought after by the world.

Xia Yu bowed his head and took a closer look at the nearly fifty-year-old vine. After checking the growth of the vine, he returned to the brewing area.

In the winery area, André Noble is responsible for the explanation.

Stable and controllable temperature is an important factor for perfect fermentation of wine.

Therefore, most of the wine cellars of wine estates are underground, and the winery of Romani Conti is no exception.

After Andre Noble opened the door, a strong aroma of wine came out. After entering, Xia Yu found that the entire wine cellar was filled with a strong aroma, which made people intoxicated.

"Boss, our wines are made in fine oak barrels, using local wild yeast, unlike some wineries that use commercial yeast and constant temperature stainless steel fermentation tanks."

"Although we will make the process more cumbersome and costly in this way, only in this way can we guarantee the quality of our wines."

"This is because we grow Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, and oak barrels can make the ingredients in the wine blend tightly. This is especially important for wines such as Chardonnay and Pinot Noir with complex taste and suitable for aging. ."

"And oak barrels can add aromas of vanilla, cloves, leaves, nuts, roasting and caramel to wine. Oak barrels are also places for secondary fermentation, which is unmatched by stainless steel fermentation tanks with constant temperature..."

Andre Noble pointed to the oak barrels piled on the surrounding wooden shelves, and introduced Xia Yu.

Xia Yu walked over and touched an oak barrel, looking at the time written on the bottom of the barrel, it was September 21, 1981.

Xia Yu looked at the wine barrels all around, and asked softly: "Old Noble, are all the brews here last year?"

André Noble shook his head and pointed to the two rows of oak barrels in front of him and said: "No, only these two rows are wines made last year. Our vineyard produces about 2,500 liters per year. It’s not like those large wineries with a production volume of seven to eighty thousand liters."

then pointed to the oak barrel not far away and said, "The two columns were harvested and brewed on September 28, 1980."

"The two farthest columns are the wines harvested on September 25, 1979."

"There will be no more time, because oak barrels will be scrapped after three years of use at most, so the wine that was harvested on September 25, 1979, we will start bottling in March..."

Xia Yu nodded slightly, and said to Andre Noble again: "Where is the wine that has been bottled before? Take me over and see."

"Okay, please follow me!"

After that, Andre Noble took Xia Yu and turned left and right along a road, and came to a large wooden door. After opening, he turned on the light of the storage room.

Suddenly, the view of the storage room came into view.

This is a straight arched passage with a corner at the end, like a brick kiln. On both sides of the passage, there are wooden wine racks with slanting support. Every position on the wine rack is filled with a wine, densely packed. It is like a honeycomb, giving people a strong visual impact.

"Old Noble, how many bottles of wine are still in the storage? Is there a list of each vintage?"

I took out a bottle of wine at close range and found that it was marked as 1964, which is 18 years ago. Xia Yu put the wine back in. I felt that there were so many wines that I couldn’t come across in a short time, so I directly asked Andre. Noble asked.

"Yes, registration will be done every time you leave the warehouse and enter the warehouse. There is a special statistics room here, please follow me!"

After that, Andre Noble took Xia Yu for a while, came to an office, and took out a huge leather-clad notebook.

He put the book on the table, opened it, and introduced to Xia Yu: "Boss, here is the number of remaining wines for each age. At present, the oldest wine in the storehouse was produced in 1754, and only left Eleven bottles!"

Xia Yu raised his eyebrows in surprise, and saw the top row of the table.

There is still 1754 wine, which has reached two hundred and twenty-eight years!

is older than the 1787 Lafite brought out by the Rohill family before!

But there are only eleven bottles, which is really rare!

Then Xia Yu followed the form and looked down.

There are five bottles of wine in 1755.

There are three bottles of wine in 1756.

None from 1757 to 1761.

So 1756 is directly below 1762, and there are thirteen bottles in storage.

there are many years of faults behind.

According to André Noble’s explanation, it is because the weather in those vintages is not good and the tannins produced by the grapes produced are not full enough, so there is no way to have a long enough life. Many of them are stored for decades or even hundreds of years. It is all emptied, and long-term storage of wines with insufficient tannins will only make the taste worse and worse.

……

Until 1800, I made a statistics, and there were a total of 129 bottles of wine before.

Then the number of wines between 1801 and 1900 was a bit more, reaching 525 bottles.

This is definitely a huge treasure house!

Romani Conti Winery is so valuableThese stored aged wines are a very important factor!

Looking at the years after 1900, as time gets closer to the present, the amount of storage also increases.

Of course, there is an exception. For example, in 1945, there are still four hundred and twenty bottles in storage.

But in the six years from 1946 to 1951, no bottle of wine was stored.

Seeing Xia Yu’s sight staying there, Andre Noble immediately explained: “Boss, because the climate changes every year, the annual grape production will change, and the grapes produced in high-yield years can even make 9,000. There are many wines, so the proportion of new wines used for long-term storage after ten years is different. However, in 1945, due to hail attacks, most of the vines died. Only six hundred bottles of wine were produced that year because of the small number. , So the total storage ratio is very high."

"In the six years from 1946 to 1951, newly transplanted vines were cultivated. Because of the unstable quality, no bottle of wine was made."

Xia Yu nodded slightly and said softly: "The total output in 1945 was only 600 bottles, and there were still four hundred and twenty bottles left. I was a little surprised."

PS: The second one is here, I wish everyone a happy weekend!

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