Early the next morning, Xiao Yifei had just arrived at the winery and someone told him that Old Man Hanna was waiting for him in the office.

Old Hanna usually refused to come to the winery. Now he must have some serious things. Xiao Yifei sent Li Qinglin and the others to play in the winery and the vineyard himself, and he walked into the office.

"Mr. Xiao, Takahashi agreed to take action on his land."

Xiao Yifei finally waited for this news. This Japanese-born Takahashi was supposed to see the grape market this year, but the benchmark grape price fell by 20% this year.

Among the growers in Napa, those who have long-term acquisition contracts with wineries or rent land such as Takahashi do not care about price reductions. Growers who take the grapes grown every year to find buyers will be in trouble. But this is also impossible. The economic situation has not improved, and it is a consensus in the wine industry to regard mid-to-high-end red wines as a disadvantage.

Now all wineries have basically finished the autumn new wine press conference. Judging from the data calculated by the Napa Wine Traders Association, wines above $200 have indeed declined in order volume, but the decline is different depending on the brand. It is said that the futures wine prices of famous French houses are also falling. It seems that the economic crisis has finally spread to the wine industry.

If the price of wine falls, then the price of grapes falls is an inevitable result. The price of grapes will definitely lead to a drop in the price of vineyards. Takahashimoto plans to wait and see if his 55 acres can be sold at a good price. Now it seems that he is destined to be disappointed. After thinking for so long, he decided to sell the vineyard to Montrena Winery.

"Okay, there's no problem with the land?"

"No problem, no problem with the vines."

Xiao Yifei's question was purely unnecessary. Although Takahashi was the land owner, the land had been rented to Monterrena Winery for use, and Hanna was also responsible for the management. What problems could be found?

"Okay, we bought the land. You have always been responsible for it. You know the situation the most. This acquisition will be the legal counsel of the winery, and you can cooperate with him."

"Okay, no problem."

"In addition, you can see if there are other vineyards that grow Chardonnay nearby and you can also talk about it together. If the price is right, buy it."

"Xiao, are you trying to expand your scale? Are you only buying Chardonnay?"

Chardonnay is generally used to make white wines. White wines were once popular in the 1970s and 1980s, and later red wines became popular. Many people in Napa eliminated the vines that made white wines and switched to Cabernet Sauvignon.

"Chardonnay can also make sparkling wine, and maybe when will white wine become popular again?"

"Okay, I'll notice. It's just that if there are too many plots, we need to sign a contract again."

"Don't worry, you will definitely consider these things at that time."

"How much does Boss Xiao plan to expand?"

Xiao Yifei calculated that his vineyard had about 260 acres of red wine, and after buying Gaoqiao's land, it was only 310 acres.

"See if you can buy 50 to 100 acres more. Try to be as large as possible. If you manage too scatteredly, it will be troublesome."

"Okay, I get it."

In front of Hanna, Xiao Yifei called the winery lawyer and ordered the matter, and then sent him away.

Xiao Yifei came to the fermentation room on the first floor, but he still didn't see Bo and Cameron. It seemed that all these chores were thrown to the assistant brewer Martin and a bunch of shrimps. Li Qinglin and the others were also busy inside.

"Xiao Yifei, throw us here to work and run away while you are lazy."

Seeing Li Qinglin wearing rubber clothes busy there, Xu Shuyun, who was in charge of looking at the power switch, accused the lazy Xiao Yifei.

"I'm not lazy, just deal with something. Am I coming?"

After understanding the situation, Xiao Yifei realized why everyone ran away, because it was a total chore.

This time, I changed the can, which is different from the previous one. The can is poured out the red wine in the can and pumped it back to the top of the can. When changing the can, you must separate the red wine and the peeled residue in the fermentation tank through a filter device. The red wine extracted is a self-flowing wine and should be sent to an empty fermentation tank next to it. The peeled residue containing the wine will be sent to the press for pressing. The squeezed wine is pressed wine and will be sent to another tank for processing.

The silly Xiao Yifei followed them to take the pipes and play with the electric pump. The self-flowing wine was drawn into another jar. Everyone used the cup to pick up some self-flowing wine.

Looking at the foam full of the cup, why is this so different from the wine he imagined? After taking a bite, it should be called wine now, because it already has the taste of wine, and it is very strong and astringent. In addition, the small bubbles in the wine are broken in the mouth, giving people the feeling of drinking soda, which is very similar to champagne.

It is still easy to extract the self-flowing wine. The most pitiful thing is the shoveling slag and wine mud. After the self-flowing wine is extracted, the excess skin residue and wine mud are still in the fermentation tank. At this time, someone needs to get into the fermentation tank, use a shovel to shovel out the skin residue containing the wine and send it to press.

Xiao Yifei wore rubber clothes, boots, and masks, and got into the fermentation tank with a worker. Standing on the thick and wet skin, he was standing in a mud field, his nose was full of raw wine, and he could only see the ceiling through the mouth of the fermentation tank, which made people feel very frustrated.

There is no way, just do it. The two of them started working with shovels.

Originally, the temperature in the fermentation tank was still more than 30 degrees when it was fermented. After a while, both of them began to sweat, and the masks on their faces were blurred by sweat. After a while, sweat appeared on their foreheads and spine. It can be said that it was stuffy and hot. Even when they were resting, they didn't feel cool. In addition, their nose was full of wine, so Xiao Yifei felt drunk. Xiao Yifei had to lie on the entrance from time to time to time to breathe the air outside, but the fermentation room outside also had a scent of wine, which was not much better than the inside of the jar.

Finally, the slag was dug, but that was not the end. There was still wine mud at the bottom of the jar. This thing was like mud. If you were not careful, you would sink your boots into it. You dug out the mud with a shovel and threw it into the box outside from the small window. Except for a few of these things that will be used in subsequent processes, most of them will be sent to David's yard and turned into compost after being decomposed by microorganisms.

The friction between the shovel and the iron can was closed by the sealed fermentation tank, making Xiao Yifei suck his teeth.

After finally finishing it, the fermentation tank must be cleaned immediately. In order to increase the utilization rate of equipment, the tank must be used for fermentation of other wines.

At least the cold water washed away made the two of them no longer feel stuffy, but the strong water flow hit the wall of the can and splashed everywhere. The rubber clothes were not diving suits and were not tightly sealed. The two of them turned into chickens after a while.

Xiao Yifei was extremely embarrassed when he came out. He cursed and sweared:

"I will never go in next one, it's a bad experience."

Now he finally knew why Beau and Cameron ran away, and even Susan, who was also an assistant brewer, ran away.

Martin complained pitifully:

"Of course, this is a chore. Are we left after you haven't seen us? This is the beginning of the miserable days of the Cellar Rat, and there are more chores waiting for us later."

Xiao Yifei smelled it and found that the entire fermentation room was filled with the smell of wine. He used to think it smelled quite nice, but why did he feel it was a torture today?

Li Qinglin was curious and went to build a fermentation tank, and he complained even after it came out. The workers were honest or used to it, and they cleaned the fermentation tank without so many complaints.

Following the forklift transporting the slag, several people came to the pressing workshop. The spiral press played a role at this time, extruding the remaining wine in the slag, and finally only the shriveled grape skins were left. David's composting area was their final destination.

I took a glass of pressed wine and the bitterness became stronger, which basically destroyed the beauty of the wine. Will he change back if he put it in a jar? But shouldn't he put it in an oak barrel?

“Why aren’t these wines in barrels?”

"No, we also need to ferment lactic acid to reduce the astringency and soften the taste of the wine."

"I know it's going to be post-fermented, but shouldn't they be done in oak barrels?"

"Now, stainless steel tanks are basically used after fermentation, which is convenient for controlling the fermentation temperature."

"Bo, they don't come to master it?"

"No, the laboratory will give accurate doses. The brewer will have a greater effect in the later preparation."

In the afternoon, Xiao Yifei, the Zifan Dai's can change can be changed, and the reason was to accompany the guests.

Li Qinglin and his friends only had such 11 days off. In the afternoon, they went to the hiking belt of the Fossil Tree Park on the Napa Valley Mountain to have fun and wandered around for a long time. The next day they were about to board the plane back home.

"Let's go, I'll take you to San Francisco."

Li Qinglin said politely:

"That's so sorry, it's really an honor to let you, the billionaire, give us."

Xiao Yifei punched him, your sister, why don’t you say you’re honored when you pick you up?

Xu Shuyun and Xiao Yifei have been together for so many days and have become much more familiar with each other. She joked with Xiao Ya:

"He gave us the place, and it was clearly the one who gave Xiao Ya, but we were the ones who took the ride."

Xiao Ya was blushed and wanted to scratch Xu Shuyun's itch.

"What did you say? It's obviously because he wants to be lazy and doesn't want to change the can."

Xiao Yifei explained:

"I'll go to Berkeley to do something."

When they arrived at Danville's home, Xiao Yifei began to call and asked someone to send them to the security checkpoint of the San Francisco Airport. Xiao Yifei pulled Li Qinglin aside:

"Do you want to work abroad?"

"I think about it, I dreamed. What's wrong? The rich man is planning to let me hug my thighs?"

"Be serious. If you want to, I have a business to start in Paris and need a reliable person to stare at. If you want, start learning French."

"No, I thought I came to the United States. At least I had learned English. If you send me to France, I will learn French from scratch."

"I can just keep an eye on the United States. If you don't want to, I'll just recruit someone else."

"Don't, wait for me to consider it."
Chapter completed!