Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1346 Retaining Certificate

The two of them are now familiar with each other, and Jasmin explains to Zhou Zhi the process of collecting wine while inspecting the wine bottle.

The first is to check the integrity of the package. Make sure it is original and has not been tampered with. There are many characteristics to check, including the aging characteristics of the cork, the aging characteristics of beeswax, the paint used on the bottle mouth, from heraldry to blending ingredients. Analysis, etc., and also check whether there are traces of injection such as pinholes.

After confirming that the wine is original, start to check the characteristics of the bottle. Each winery and each era of wine bottles have their own special characteristics, including glass color, bubbles, depth of depression at the bottom of the bottle, bottle height, and the height of the bottle. The arc proportions must be checked.

Finally, the label needs to be analyzed, from paper to ink, to match known wine labels.

Those tools are all used to do these things.

Finally, there is another analytical technology - bioanalytical technology.

There are special bacterial groups and macromolecule groups precipitated from red wine on the bottle stopper. You can use a scalpel to remove part of the bottle stopper sawdust for bacterial culture and solvent spectrum analysis. It is amazing to see carefully.

Compared with the current porcelain and ancient painting shops that rely solely on eyesight and experience, look at how neat this job is!

After some appraisal, Jasmin put away her equipment again and said seriously while taking out her gloves: "Congratulations to you, Elbow. These wines are all real. Your senior has a very high appreciation of wine. Eryi The Egon vintage, the Trinity vintage Port, and the Romanée-Conti vintage 37 are all the most precious products in the world today, and he has left you a rich legacy.”

Zhou Zhi thought to himself that his grandfather had left more than this, and said with a smile: "I don't believe he has such a high appreciation for wine, but... I guess he knows too many friends, and there are many experts among them. uncertain."

“I never expected to see so many bottles of Egon, Port and Romanée-Conti of this vintage in the red wine desert.” Jasmin couldn’t help but sigh: “But that’s right, if it weren’t for China, these wines wouldn’t be available. Now."

"Why are we a desert of red wine? We also have the Great Wall and Changyu." Zhou Zhi said.

Jasmine pouted her lips slightly and did not answer the words.

Zhou Zhi estimated that these two brands are still following the route of large quantities of commercial wine, and have not started to produce high-quality products, so he had to change the topic: "Then please pick out the best quality and good quality, two bottles of each kind, I promised Jack , give him two evenly of each kind."

"Let me tell you why he is so active!" Jasmine suddenly realized, and then smiled at Zhou Zhi and said: "But you are really generous, so I will give him half of it."

"I did it for the sake of Mr. Li and Mr. Feng, but I didn't give it to him." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Besides, it's not like they didn't give me any money."

Among these wines were three bottles of Egon, five bottles of Port, and six bottles of Romanée-Conti. They were all in very good condition. Soon Jasmine selected the six bottles of wine and asked Zhou Zhi to find a suitcase and two large bottles of wine. foam, and then take out a weird piece of equipment from the bag. A thin elastic steel wire can be inserted into the front end and bent into a steel ring. After being powered on, it becomes hot and can easily dig out the grooves you want on the foam.

"Hey! There is such a thing?!" Zhou Zhi had never seen anything like this before: "This is great for taking out foam and storing valuables!"

"This is called a cutting pen, don't you know?" Jasmine seemed to have been doing this for a long time. She carved a few depressions on the foam in just a few strokes and placed three bottles of wine. It was just right: "Then this is I’ll give it to you, I’ll buy it when I get back to Hong Kong Island.”

"Thank you very much."

Jasmin took out another business card from her bag: "Take this. If these wines need to be auctioned in the future, the auction price for the consignment undertaken by our winery will be higher."

Zhou Zhi looked at the business card, and it was written in English. Jasmin's identity was the chief connoisseur of the Dewuzi Wine Auction House. Zhou Zhi, a pure layman, didn't know what it meant specifically.

"Come on, let's take a group photo at the end." Jazmin took out a Polaroid from her bag that seemed to have magic. "Ah?" Zhou Zhi was flattered.

"This is a collection certificate." Jasmine said. She mounted the camera on a small tripod and placed it in front of the coffee table. Then she took out a certificate-style thing from her bag and wrote it with a pen. I wrote beautiful cursive characters on it, but this time it was in French that Zhou Zhi didn’t quite recognize.

Placing the wine on the coffee table, Jasmine handed the certificate to Zhou Zhi: "Here, take it, look at the camera, and smile."

As he pressed the remote control, the camera clicked and then began to spit out photos.

After the photo was developed, Jasmine scrawled a few lines on the back of the photo: "OK, the work is over! You can take me back to the airport. I will settle the appraisal fee with Jack, so you don't have to worry about it."

"How embarrassing." Zhou Zhi put away the business card and photo and said, "Now that the business relationship is over, we are just friends. I can't justify coming so far to help me with my appraisal and not treating you to a meal."

"Are you interested in anything in Shudu? As the host, I can also take you to have fun. It won't be too late to leave later."

"What about the antique porcelain in Shudu?" Jasmine asked: "If you can find one of the ones you mentioned..." Then she stretched out her hand and pointed to the pendant under her collar: "Take it home as a gift." Grandpa is also pretty good.”

"It really does." Zhou Zhi said.

This year is a major year for the restructuring of auction houses. The country has begun to absorb foreign experience and opened several art auction companies in succession.

In addition to Hanhai, which took the first bite of crabs, there are now the joint ventures of China Guardian, the capital Rongbao where the time-honored Rongbaozhai opened, and Zhongshang Shengjia, and Duoyunxuan, which Zhou Zhi visited in Shanghai, is the last one , that is, Fei Guan poached a few experts, jumped out of Gongmei and ran it alone, and just obtained the management rights of Shuzhong Hanya.

At present, the country also allows the auction and operation of porcelain from the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties. Among them, non-grade porcelain from the Qing Dynasty is still allowed to continue to be exported to earn foreign exchange. However, the rules have been tightened. Only several auction houses with business qualifications are eligible.

This shows that the country is still in a wait-and-see attitude towards the degree of tightness of the policy, and it is also an initial attempt to "standardize management" of this market.

Zhou Zhi is not very mechanical. Although he also hopes that the country will improve legislation as soon as possible, he also knows that some things cannot be said to be one size fits all.

In an era when more than 70 million people are still living below the food and clothing line, talking about cultural relics protection and prohibiting exports sounds a bit like "why not eat minced meat".

What's more, Fei Guan wanted to achieve results, and he had told Zhou Zhi several times to help him digest it.

But Zhou Zhi's current vision is too high. Zhou Zhi really doesn't like the old things that Fei Guantao bought, and Zhou Zhi is not very interested in modern calligraphy and painting works.

"I know that there is a Kangxi emerald-blue bell rattle in Hanya in Shuzhong. How about I take you to see it?"

"Let's go, let's go quickly!" Jasmine suddenly became excited.

(End of this chapter)