The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

The wine cellar of the wine castle is divided into several sections, which are located underground and on the same ground, which meets the storage requirements of noble rot wines of various years and different storage packages.

The place where Zhang Nan and Adjani walked in is an underground column dome-style wine cellar. It is a typical architectural form of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The ceiling, columns and surrounding walls are all light yellow.

The ceiling is equipped with a yellow light chandelier, and the column is also a wall light of the same color temperature. The light is soft. It is said that such light does not affect the wine storage in the neatly stacked oak barrels.

"Oak barrels are opaque, right?"

I have a question in my mind, but I don't bother to ask the reason. This is just what my housekeeper said casually.

The staff in the original winery had already been forced to take a vacation, and Tom Jackson was accompanied by the two of them.

Seeing that Zhang Nan was a little interested in the neatly arranged large wooden barrels in the wine cellar, Tom said: "This is library No. 12, and it contains new wines from the previous year and 1989."

Hearing this, Zhang Nan touched a large oak barrel next to him and said, "Is all new barrels used here?"

Looking around, they are all new barrels, and there is no old one. This is very different from the situation in the old French wineries seen in movies and TV: many new wines are in old barrels, and it is said that the barrels can be kept inside. The wine becomes more mellow.

The boss has doubts, but the butler Tom said: "Yes, boss, this is the tradition of Lusalus Chateau..."

Some wineries use old barrels, but Château Lussalus has always used new oak barrels for packaging. It is said that new barrels are most suitable for the noble rot wine produced by their own winery.

Each family has a secret recipe, and the one that suits you is done.

This wine cellar alone has a huge area. Two years of new wine has not been sold yet, and it needs to be stored for a few years.

As for last year's wine juice, there is still a huge wooden barrel in the upper brewery, and it hasn't been divided.

After a hastily glanced around, not only Zhang Nan and the three of them are here, but there are bodyguards pushing two ground penetrating radars in the aisles to check the underground situation.

There are many wines, all new wines, and the fine wines that can be sold are in other wine cellars.

After this round, before going to the wine cellar next door, Zhang Nan asked Tom: "When was the earliest wine in the winery?"

Zhang Nan heard from Nicole that the Earl’s family added some clauses to the final transfer agreement and took away part of the most precious wine in the chateau in proportion.

This is written on paper, and as for those who don’t know, God knows how much was taken away.

There is no way. The wine castle was someone else's house at that time, and you couldn't control what other people moved.

As for the ones sold to you in the wine castle, they have calculated it: cost-effective. Although the buyer is unreasonable, the proper people are stupid and rich!

There is no way to sell you, people were not willing to sell it!

Zhang Nan really doesn't know how many years of aged wine are left in the wine castle. This is a tool for force. Sometimes when I have a meal with a friend, I get a bottle of aged wine that says...

Very good!

Tom Jackson said without thinking: "The earliest Tibetan wine in the chateau is 1811. They were all bottled. Originally there were 17 bottles. Mr. Earl took away 6 bottles according to the contract. The current price of each bottle is about 50,000. Dollar.

The premise of this price is that the winery has never disclosed the number of wines in this vintage. Currently, there are only three bottles of Lusalus Noble Rot in 1811, so the price calculated in the contract is US$45,000 each. "

Commercially, Tom Jackson, as the most reliable steward of Zhang Nan's family, can of course know the amount of wine held here: The secret of such value should be a family secret to the original Mr. Earl, but it is nothing to Zhang Nan's family.

Since he arrived here in advance to make preparations, Tom has to understand the situation in the chateau, otherwise, after all the original staff are forced to leave, no one else can find the wine of a certain vintage that the boss needs.

I want to drink the 1947 vintage for dinner, but I don’t know where it is. Then dozens of bodyguards go to a dozen cellars to search for carpets?

Hilarious!

The wine castle is too big, and it takes at least a few weeks for newcomers to grasp the number of wines in the cellar.

Fortunately, Tom has the statistics of the wine cellar in hand, and he left it at the time of the handover, and he can't help him with issues such as vintage.

but!

Tom was very honest and said again: "However, boss, I only know that the 11 bottles of wine are in Cellar No. 1, but I haven't been to see where they are."

Zhang Nan waved his hand slightly, meaning it didn't matter.

To Ajani: "It seems that you have to find someone to get a good plate of the Tibetan wine here."

The woman smiled, did not speak, as long as she understood her meaning.

This person is good or bad, and he has different standards for his behavior. For example, Zhang Nan likes to think about evil for outsiders: every family basically has a secret under the box, maybe the wine castle originally has a longer-term Tibetan wine, but this will no longer be his.

But he doesn't care if it is not, it is enough to get this wine castle.

There are a lot of wines in the wine castle, and we wandered around the second and third wine cellars. The wine stored in the third wine cellar has begun to be bottled and sold.

The large number is because there are 100 hectares of vineyards in the Château de Lüsalus. The unit of measurement that Zhang Nan is familiar with is more than 1,500 acres, one square kilometer!

It has never been like that some famous wineries deliberately engage in "grape-by-grape hand-selection", "special characteristics and what command version" for the sake of quality and gimmicks. Then a winery divides the annual wine production into three, six or nine grades. For high-end products, you can get two to three hundred bottles a year, and each bottle can sell for $5,000.

The Lusalus Château only produces one product in one year, but in the last 40 years, there have been two vintages because of the poor quality of the grapes due to the weather. Mr. Piaget directly decided not to make a bottle of wine!

The wine is made for people to drink. The quality of noble rot wine here is not uniquely selected, but is guaranteed by the overall quality. Therefore, the price of each bottle of Lusalus noble rot in general vintage is based on the vintage. The difference is between 200 and 400 US dollars, and the annual output is not small.

Although the price is still expensive~www.readwn.com~, it is within the range of affordable drinking—it is available in the US market. The price is slightly lower for a bottle of more than US$300 in vintages, and the middle class can enjoy it occasionally.

The only super first-class winery, with a concept that is "close to the people". Perhaps its winemaking concept was also one of the reasons for its unique status at the time of the selection.

No gimmicks, my wine is used to drink, not just for display in wine cellars and wine cabinets, and it is not a prop to make people high investment hype!

How does this concept feel so familiar?

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I didn't bother with the search of the bodyguard, Jerry and others. I just hoped that the things were not under the wine cellar that had been hundreds of years old, otherwise it would be a trouble to dig or not.

Digging a hole is not difficult, but it is said that such small actions will affect the quality of Tibetan wine, which is really troublesome!

Two days later, something was discovered.