The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

"The treasure of the Knights Templar is here in the winery?"

At dinner, Adjani was shocked by what Zhang Nan told her!

There is nothing wrong in the winery in winter. The workers and technicians are left very few in charge of the operation of the chateau. As for Mr. Earl, who manages the production, he will come at least once every half a month.

Zhang Nan is coming at this meeting. The winter management staff has already left this morning after doing the necessary work, and will not return until ten days later.

Just go on vacation or go home to nest, anyway, they will never be here.

The wine chateau is not a factory, and the staff can leave for a short time in the second half of winter, and there will be no problems with the newly brewed wine.

Zhang Nan's people are all in the castle restaurant, and you can talk about the treasures of the Knights Templar. But Adjani’s surprise is that there are coincidences in this world, but it is a bit too much for coincidences to such an extent!

"According to the sign on the cross, part of it is on the top of the mountain, but it is not certain whether it is under the ground of the wine castle, or it was discovered and taken away hundreds of years ago."

Hearing this, Ajani blinked, "You don't want to demolish this place, do you?"

Zhang Nan laughed, raised the wine glass on the dining table, shook it slightly, and stared at the obvious drop of gold and noble rot wine hanging on the wall due to high sugar content in the glass.

"I can't bear it. This winery has spent almost 400 million dollars. Even if the crowns of the Kingdom of Jerusalem are here, how much can there be?

Besides, I am not interested in the candlesticks in the temple of King Solomon and the golden gospel, just to satisfy my desire for treasure hunting.

That little treasure is not as real as these white wines. "

Well, Zhang Nan called Lusalus noble rot wine white wine...

By the way, noble rot wine is originally a sweet white wine, and Lusaluz Château only produces sweet white wine.

As for some people call it drip gin, not only is the wine more golden in color, it probably also shows that it is expensive!

Nicole bought all the property rights of the chateau and almost all of the wine, and only allowed the Count of Lusalus to move a small part of the wine under absolute supervision in accordance with the contract.

This Zhang Nan Cup is a 1985 wine with only 6 years of age. The butler Tom Jackson, who arrived a day earlier, personally selected it from the huge wine cellar.

Noble rot wine produced in each vintage has a different optimal drinking time, generally within 5 to 100 years. This is because noble rot wine has a high sugar content, and it is best to store new wine for a few years before drinking. , And the shelf life of some years can exceed 100 years!

Of course, one year old is also suitable for drinking, but it will be less interesting.

6 years old, this is considered to be extremely short in Lusalus noble rot, but Lusalus produced in 1985 is of extremely high quality and has a large inventory in the wine cellar.

The housekeeper understands the boss's habits. He has not been around Zhang Nan for a long time, but his wife has served in the manor since the boss and the two wives have made their fortunes.

The boss doesn't have high requirements for wine, and he prefers to drink dry red with a slightly sweet taste. This has something in common with the old European aristocrats. The noble rot sweet wine here is simply tailor-made for him.

And the boss also has a very good service feature: he is not so particular about the vintage and price of the wine, only his own taste, and his taste for wine is like an old antique living in the 19th century.

Noble rot sweet white was once the mainstream wine consumption in the world in history, because sugar was a very scarce nutritious product hundreds of years ago, and many sweet wines were treasures that only the royal family and the nobles could enjoy.

Needless to say about this, even in Zhang Nan’s hometown a few years ago, I went to a department store or a Nanhuo store to buy some sugar during Chinese New Year, and then wrapped it into a traditional package with that kind of very rough and thick paper. Packing dried lychees in the same packaging is a good annual gift.

The same goes for visiting patients with sugar, and the price will not drop!

However, today’s Westerners’ taste preference for wine has undergone tremendous changes. More people are beginning to like excellent dry wines. Sweet white wines are no longer mainstream in the Western world. Even if you want to drink white wines, it’s basically a choice. Dry white.

As for the East, noble rot wine seems to have never been popular.

The boss likes sweetness, and in the autumn of 1985 in the Bordeaux area, this **** was very helpful. The climatic conditions such as temperature and precipitation are similar to those of 1947 and 1949, which were the best in the past 100 years, and even better!

There was no extreme weather affecting the growth of noble rot fungi. The 150 employees of Château Lussary kept selecting the most mature grapes infested by noble rot fungi in the grape fields for several months, and picked them until December of that year. The month is over.

In a normal year, it's time to pick them all in less than November.

For gorgeous noble rot wines, the late harvest is like a gamble, because another terrible outcome of the late harvest is that the strong cold air will cause a lot of loss or even no harvest of grapes!

Xie Cai, busy all year!

In the Sauternes region, only Château Lussalus dared to do this: at any time, Château Lussalus guarantees that the sugar content of wine grape juice exceeds 340 grams per liter, while other nearby wineries can only Guaranteed over 200.

Those are not cheap wineries, the noble rot wine they produce is also expensive!

The grape juice obtained from the grapes picked in 1985 has a sugar content of more than 400 grams per liter due to the long hanging time. The shelf life of the Lusalus noble rot wine that year can even exceed 200 years!

As for the collections of the 47 and 49 vintages, they are in the cellar, but not much, because the original number was not large, and according to the purchase agreement, the earl family took away one third of them.

The boss is generous when he is generous, but sometimes he looks like a miser when he hides things. Tom knows all these things, so this will bring out the wine produced in 1985.

The guys who came this time had a good amount of alcohol, and the boss was happy. People who are not on duty here can drink expensive rot wine as cheap meal wine!

Zhang Nan valued the wine castle, and Ajani said with a smile: "I think in the future the wine castle can be completely handed over to the baby. …"

Mothers are not all people who want their children to be one of a million. It is better to think that the next generation will be safe, and Ajani is one of them.

In this transaction, the price of the winery is 2 million US dollars per hectare of vineyard land. Today's sky-high price, plus the wine castle itself and the Tibetan wine in it, has resulted in a super high price of nearly 400 million US dollars!

But in another 20 years, Zhang Nan believes that the price of the vineyard in this first chateau can be 20 times this number!

But at this meeting, Ajani is also complaining, "...The government's inheritance tax is too high, 45%. I went to find out. After some people nearby inherited the family winery, they haven't paid the inheritance tax in 10 years. , Some are almost unable to sustain.

The gang of **** above don't know what to think. They are not satisfied with this tax. They have also made some special regulations for the winery. This is to push the French wine industry on a desperate way! ..."

Adjani is French, but she is not a French in her bones, so she scoffs at some of the actions of the Gaul Rooster!

Inheritance taxes are also quite high in the United States, and France's are high enough, but Zhang Nan doesn't care about these. Some of the two money-raising rakes in the family are tax avoidance methods, which are popular on Wall Street.

Some of the wealth on the surface can be tax-evacuated, and some Americans simply can't control it because they are not in the United States at all.

As for those secretly, let alone the United States, God can't control it!

Zhang Nan is still young. In recent years, he will not pay attention to the issue of inheritance tax, but he will listen to Ajani's complaints, and then understand why Nicole had to buy the Lusalus wine castle at a high price. Written in the name of Zhang Xingchen.

It's because of that **** French estate tax!

In France in the 1930s and 1940s, the family that made wine was able to pay off the inheritance tax that had to be paid after a year of operating the winery.

But now, in order to pay off the inheritance tax stipulated by the French government, it will take at least more than ten years of business, or even longer, to fill the big hole!

The actual situation in France now is: the high inheritance tax is a very heavy burden for those wineries whose sales are not good, because they simply cannot afford to pay these inheritance taxes.

It is extremely difficult to inherit a vineyard in France, and the price of the vineyard is constantly rising. This means that if you want to inherit the family's vineyard, you have to face higher inheritance taxes.

France is one of the countries with the highest inheritance tax rate in the world. A vineyard worth 100,000 US dollars needs to be levied 45% tax~www.readwn.com~ As for the world's top wineries like Chateau Lussials , You have to prepare a vault to inherit smoothly!

Rising land prices are not the biggest problem. French law is called fuck-dan!

The Gallic Rooster has many laws and regulations regarding the inheritance of vineyards, some of which are even the "Napoleonic Law" preserved during Napoleon's time. Some regulations are simply incredible!

According to the provisions of the "Napoleon Law" specifically for wineries, after the death of any individual, the assets must be divided into equal sizes according to the number of heirs in the family.

That is to say, if a winery owner has three children, whether his children want to inherit the winery or not, he must divide the assets of the winery into three equal parts.

As for the management of the winery in the later period, it is up to the children to decide whether the three will operate together, or one of them will buy back the shares in the hands of the other two.

If the Lüsalus wine castle was written in the name of Ajani, then in a few decades, the wine castle would not be Zhang Xingchen alone, even if Ajani wrote his will, it would be useless!