Mixed in Australia to be a local tyrant

Chapter 102 Partnering to Buy a Winery

Oliver Leslie said as he walked, "You two, let me show you around the vineyard first."

Tony nodded and said, "Okay, please."

When they walked into the vineyard, they could see rows of grape trellises neatly erected on the uneven hills, which looked very beautiful.

Oliver Leslie pointed to the vineyards not far away and introduced: "We mainly plant three grapes, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Garnacha, in the Chizito Winery. The average age of the vines is between fifty and Between 60 years, it is a real old vine, the wine produced is full-bodied, deep red in color, with luxurious raspberry and liquorice aroma mixed with mint in the taste, accompanied by strong chocolate flavor. "

After a pause, Oliver Leslie continued: "Our Xijito brand red wine is very popular in the market and exported to China, New Zealand, the United States and other six or seven countries. The average price of each bottle of wine is [-] Around Australian dollars, in Australia..."

Tony listened very carefully, but Tang Ming was not interested. He went to the vineyard to look around, remembered the layout here, and followed this layout when he was going back to plant grapes.

Then they came to the wine cellar and wine processing workshop, tasted a few glasses of wine, and left here.

Tang Ming and Tony separated from Rodney at the door and got into the car. Tang Ming asked, "Tony, how are you doing? Did you fall in love with this winery?"

Tony shook his head and said, "The grapes planted in the winery are not bad. They are all old vine grapes, which are of some value, but there are no other advantages. AUD 700 million is enough to buy a bigger and more valuable winery. Well, this small winery, if it is not in the Barossa Valley, is not worth 400 million, but even here, the price is a bit expensive. In addition, the area of ​​​​the winery is too small, I want to buy a bigger one winery."

"Oh." Tang Ming nodded and asked, "Then where shall we go next?"

Tony thought for a while and said, "Let's go directly to Hedi. The wineries in Hedi are large in size. I originally wanted to buy a winery in Barossa Valley. Now it seems that the winery here is not suitable for me. I still want to buy a winery in Hedi. The winery is more suitable for me."

The Riverland region is located in the central and eastern part of South Australia. The grapes produced account for half of the total in South Australia and a quarter of the country's total. It is the region with the largest wine production in Australia.

In addition to brewing in local wineries, some of the grape raw materials produced here will be transported to wineries in Barossa Valley and Hunter Valley to brew well-known brand wines.

They arrived in Hedi in the afternoon, and under the introduction of the real estate agent, they visited two wineries.

At night, in the hotel, Tang Ming and Tony were sitting in the living room, and there were many materials on the coffee table.

Tony didn't want to go shopping any more, so he planned to choose one of these two wineries, but he was a little hesitant. He didn't know which winery to buy, and wanted to hear Tang Ming's opinion, so he asked: "Tang, Do you think it is suitable for me to buy that winery?"

Tang Ming said with a smile: "Didn't you say you want to buy a bigger winery? The winery called Duna is not bad. It covers an area of ​​more than 1000 acres, and the area of ​​the vineyard has reached [-] to [-] acres. , With so many grapes, even if you can’t use them, you can still sell them.”

"Let me think about it again." Tony picked up the information on Duna Winery and thought about it.

After a while, Tony said: "This winery is really good, but the price is too high, it costs 200 million Australian dollars. If you add the cost of the renovation of the winery and the later promotion of the wine, it will cost tens of millions of Australian dollars. , although I have so much cash now, I can’t invest all of it in the winery.”

Tony paused, thought for a while, turned his head to look at Tang Ming, and said, "Tang, how about we cooperate, each of us will pay half of the money, and each will take [-]% of the shares, how about it?"

Tang Ming was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Tony to make such a proposal, but it was undeniable that he was really moved. After thinking about it for a while, he said, "Okay, I agree."

"Don, I knew you would agree." Tony said excitedly: "Let's invest 800 million Australian dollars each, and use 3000 to 400 million Australian dollars to buy Duna Winery, and the remaining [-] million Australian dollars will be used as wine. How about Zhuang's daily expenses?"

Tang Ming said: "Yes, I agree. In addition, since we are ready to buy Chateau Duna, we should re-register a brand. Anyway, this brand is not worth much."

Tony said, "Don, do you have any good ideas?"

Tang Ming thought for a while and said, "Let's call it Hongyan Winery."

"The beauty, the beauty." Tony repeated a few words, nodded in satisfaction, and said, "It's a very poetic name, I like this name, so let's call it that."

They discussed until midnight before going back to their rooms to sleep.

The next morning, I brought a lawyer to the door, negotiated with the owner of Duna Winery, and bought Duna Winery.

In addition to the basic facilities in the winery, more than 20 bottles of wine in the winery also belonged to them, as well as three winemakers and more than 20 workers working in the winery.

There are several small buildings in the winery. In the evening, Tang Ming and Tony chose one for rest. Tang Ming discussed with Tony. Better winemakers and more.

In the winery, the winemaker plays a very important role. The quality of wine depends on two aspects, one is the quality of grape raw materials, and the other is the factor of brewing technology.

Hedi is a good grape producing area. Naturally, there is no shortage of good raw materials. What Hongyan Winery lacks most now is excellent winemakers and good winemaking techniques.

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In the early morning, Tang Ming walked around the vineyard and looked at the thick vines. These vines are 30 to [-] years old. Although they are not old vine grapes, the grapes produced are already very Not bad, but the winery's brewing technology was too poor in the past, and they didn't know how to promote it, so they appeared to be unknown, and finally fell to the point of being sold.

Then Tang Ming came to the wine cellar again, and saw bottles of wine on the wine rack.

These wines are both new this year and stored in the past. If it is a well-known winery, these wines are a great fortune, but here, these wines are not very valuable, otherwise the former owner of the winery They would not easily give these wines to Tang Ming and Tony as bargaining chips.

Tang Ming took out a few bottles from the wine rack and prepared to take them back to the ranch for his family to taste.

After breakfast in the winery, Tang Ming said goodbye to Tony and drove to the ranch.

After three o'clock in the afternoon, I finally returned to the ranch.

This trip was very interesting. Originally, he just accompanied Tony to buy a winery to see the world, but he didn't expect to end up buying a winery with Tony in partnership.

(End of this chapter)