There is a bar in Houhai

Chapter 347 Chapter [-]

When it comes to Burgundy, one must mention a winery, that is the famous Romanee-Conti winery.The wine king who has been able to overwhelm Lafite in the wine market for many years.However, the most famous winemaker in Burgundy is not the winemaker of Romanee-Conti, but an existence known as the Pope of Burgundy-Henri Jay.

Bordeaux wines are classified according to the classification of the chateau.When you buy Bordeaux wine, as long as you know the level of the winery, you will probably be able to know it well.However, this is not the case in Burgundy. The classification of its wines is much more complicated. In addition to the winery, the winemaker will play a key role.And Henry Jay is such a legendary winemaker. Although he passed away in 2006, the two wines left by him, Essex and Ballantu, are still the darlings of the red wine auction. Even more expensive.

Gilkelia is Henry Jay's apprentice, and he began to learn winemaking skills from him in the 70s, until he returned home in the 80s to inherit the small winery of his own family.

Although Jill runs this small winery and has no worries about food and clothing, he still turns the worker's dormitory in the winery into a family hotel in his spare time to entertain wine lovers from all over the world.

In Burgundy, you will find that their diet is inseparable from red wine. Whether it is steak or chicken, their main flavoring agents are red wine and spices. As a traditional Burgundian, Fiona is a good one. Qin Mohan, who likes western food, couldn't help but ran to the kitchen to help her, and asked her the secrets of French cuisine.Qin Mohan doesn't understand French, and Fiona's English is not very familiar. The two speak and gesture together, and the difference in language can't restrict the communication between the two women who like cooking.

After an authentic French dinner, Jill invited several people to sit and chat under the flower stand.Under the starlight in the sky, the fragrance of flowers and the bright red wine in hand are extremely pleasant on this early summer night in France.

"When I saw him for the first time, he was tall and thin, and his hair was not as short as it is now. He often lay on the guardrail and looked at the sea." Jill, at Qin Mohan's request, told about Shen Fang's past, shaking the wine glass in his hand. Past events: "I wondered at the time, this kid can't be a fool, right? What's so good about the endless sea? Especially in the depths of the ocean, you can't even see a seagull."

"Jill, it's because you don't understand my feelings. Only the sea can show my mind." Shen Fang argued in disbelief.

Jill couldn't help debunking him with Qin Mohan: "Monica, you don't know what state he was on the cruise ship at that time. At that time, many waitresses in the entire catering department were fascinated by him, with a melancholy expression Temperament, guitar skills, and can sing love songs that touch girls' hearts. If he opens his mouth, there will be a lot of girls waiting for him."

"Jill, don't slander me, I'm clean." Shen Fang called hastily.

"Hehe, that's true." Jill said with a smile: "Later, I saw that he was always lying on the railing when he was free. I was afraid that this kid would not think about it one day, so I started teaching him how to taste wine."

"It should be said that you were impressed by my talent." The back and forth bickering between the two caused Fiona and Qin Mohan to smile uncontrollably.

"Talent is good, but it doesn't follow the right path." Jill said disdainfully: "Food is for eating, not for making wine. The existence of whiskey is heresy."

"You've been arguing with old Charlie for years, and you haven't won him. Why bother?"

Jill said: "I'm angry that he actually abducted my apprentice."

Shen Fang shook his head. Charlie is another sommelier on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship. He is from Scotland and is mainly in charge of whiskey and cocktails.The two have their own persistence, and they often sit together to argue about whiskey and wine, and they also enjoy it in the vast sea.After Shen Fang became more cheerful, he became active in the beverage department.After coming into contact with colorful cocktails once, I fell in love with it, and then slowly fell in love with whiskey as one of the base drinks of cocktails.

"Can you tell me about your experience back then?" Back in the room, Qin Mohan hugged Shen Fang from behind and rested his chin on his shoulder.

"At that time, I was like a lost lamb, only thinking about escaping Yanjing and Huaxia." Shen turned his face, let her sit in his arms, and slowly told about his previous experience.

Even when I was on the ship, I didn't know where to go to the next stop, drifting slowly with the cruise ship.Until one day, Jill Kylia asked him to help him taste the difference between two glasses of wine. Shen Fang thought he was teasing himself, and finally Jill told him a sentence that he still remembers vividly: life is like wine tasting, The wines of different years can feel the changes brought by time through your taste buds, some are mellow and some are sour!I hope you can become different after time immersion like red wine!
From then on, Shen Fang began to learn from him how to taste wine, what are the characteristics of red wines of different years and different origins, and later met old Charlie, and gradually fell in love with whiskey, and he was quarreling with the two old men. I became cheerful unconsciously.

"If I hadn't met Jill at the beginning, I guess I was still drifting slowly with the cruise ship." Shen Fang concluded: "Jill also found this excuse to drive me off the ship because he saw that I was normal. He hoped that I could start a new life. life."
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From the dividing line in Burgundy ---
In the early morning, a thin layer of mist filled the central highlands not far away.The lush mountain forest is a little more hazy under the entanglement of this mist.The sun in the east had already risen at this time, and Qin Mohan and Shen Fang, who had already woken up, were ready to enjoy their morning in this French countryside.

Follow Jill to their family's vineyard, which is a south-facing hillside, close to a country road, surrounded by a [-]-centimeter-high low fence.Going up the gentle slope without covering each other, this can make the grapes in the vineyard more sunny.It also benefits from the cool air brought by the adjacent anticline valley, which delays the growth of vineyard plants very well.

According to Jill, this vineyard has been in the hands of the Killia family for more than 100 years. At that time, the ancestors of Killia saw that the land was rich in soil, with a thin surface layer of clay and a layer of well-water-repellent soil underneath. Rocky marl soil, the thickness of the vineyard soil layer in the middle of the hillside can reach 60 cm. It is dominated by Bajouian soil, rich in clay and limestone. After investigation, it is found that this is one of the best places for planting Pinot Noir. Later, the land was bought to grow grapes and provided to local wineries.

Starting from Gil’s grandfather Aman, who inherited the vineyard from his parents, he changed the production mode of selling grapes and began to try to make wine by himself.When he first entered the wine industry, he wholesaled wine in bulk to local distributors.As his skills became more mature, he became more and more dissatisfied with selling loose wine, and then introduced a bottling production line and established his own winery and wine cellar.After World War II, he started bottling himself and started the winemaking history of the Kilia family.

After the death of Old Oman, the two eldest sons established their own wineries respectively, while the third son took over the management of the winery of the Kiria family. Later, the family changed to the form of a company in 1965, so the winery continued to use The name of "Kilia Winery" is a little different from the general situation where the name is changed due to the succession of the son, because the shares are held by each member of the family, not one person alone.After a hundred years of development, the "Kilia" winery has become well-known in the Burgundy region, ranking 118th among French wineries in the evaluation last year.Although this ranking is not very outstanding, you must know that there are more than [-] wineries in France participating in the ranking.

"The quality of the grapes this year is good." Jill picked one from the vine, chewed it twice in his mouth, then spit it out, then picked two more and handed them to Shen Fang and Qin Mohan.

"Don't eat, this old man is very bad." When Shen Fang stopped Qin Mohan, she had already put it in her mouth, and was looking at the teasing old man with a bitter face.It is only May, and the grapes have just swelled, and they are still as hard as pebbles, and they cannot be tasted at all. Apart from sourness, there is no trace of grape flavor.

"Haha, I've been fooled by him before." Shen Fang hurriedly took the water bottle to rinse Qin Mohan's mouth.

"What do you know?" Jill looked at Shen Fang disdainfully: "The sourness of the grapes at this time can determine its sugar content later in the year. Experienced winemakers can judge this year's vintage at this time. Don't believe you Try it."

"Tch." No matter what the old man said, Shen Fang was not fooled: "I feel that this is an ancestral prank. The grandfather deceived the father, and then the father began to deceive the ignorant son. When the son grows up, He used this rhetoric to deceive his own children."

"Hahaha, it makes sense." Qin Mohan, who had just been deceived, couldn't help laughing when he heard Shen Fang's explanation.

Jill, who was exposed, was not angry, and continued to lead them on a tour of the vineyard.Although Jill's son has different ideas from Jill, he still introduced new technologies for grape planting, such as establishing a good grape yield management system and pruning off excess grapes to ensure the quality of wine grapes.If he hadn't always wanted to use new technology to improve the traditional wine-making process, the father and son would never have such a deadlock.

After breakfast, Shen Fang and the others began to visit several Grand Cru wineries in Burgundy under the leadership of Jill, including Chateau Romanee-Conti, Chateau Le Hua and Chateau Duga.

Although the local government calls on the wineries to carry out tourism projects, it is difficult for some top famous wineries to visit the wineries even if you spend money, because most of them are family-owned wineries, and they have no ability to receive tourists and affect the work of the vineyards.The way to visit these top wineries is to become a customer of their dealer or find a local famous winemaker to lead them.As a disciple of Henry Jay, Jill is the relatively famous No.1 winemaker in Burgundy.

Shen Fang ordered more than 200 million euros of red wine in three wineries. Jill couldn't help being speechless with such a big deal.

"Jill, if I want to buy a small winery in Burgundy and plan to produce some red wine for myself, do you have any recommendations?" After visiting several wineries, Shen Fang proposed to Jill about his Burgundy experience Another purpose of the trip.

"I knew you couldn't escape the temptation of Burgundy red wine." Jill's expression of grasping the pearl made Shen Fang a little surprised, and Jill said to him: "In our village, there happened to be a problem with the operation of a winery. Suspected of participating in the sale of counterfeit alcohol, he was punished by the FBI and is on the verge of bankruptcy."

"Yes, which winery?" Shen Fang was very interested in what Jill said. The village of Gevrey-Chambertin is a very famous wine-producing village in Burgundy. If any vineyard here has the intention to sell , will immediately attract the coveted wineries of the major wineries in France.

"Pengshou Winery, the winery ranks 130th. If it wasn't for Lauren's insistence on bundling the winery and vineyards for sale, this winery would have been merged by other companies." Jill introduced: "His family is our village. It is a relatively large winery with one grand crus and two premier crus.”

The village of Gevrey-Chambertin has unique geological conditions in the Burgundy region. It has the most 9 parcels of grand crus in this area, and Château Ponceau is definitely lucky to have one.

"Since they have Grand Cru vineyards, why is the winery ranked only 130?" Shen Fang was a little puzzled. Generally, wineries with Grand Cru vineyards are at least ranked within 50.

"It's just bad luck." As a Burgundian, Jill is well aware of the potential of Château Pengshou.Pengshou Winery has always implemented the concept of "minimizing the reduction of human intervention" in the process of red wine making, and has always insisted on showing the original flavor of the grapes to the maximum. Due to internal and external troubles during the year, the ranking of the winery has been falling all the way.

(End of this chapter)