Xiao Yifei returned to the winery directly from Berkeley. In the next few days, he and Martin changed cans every day. After changing to Zinfandel, it was finally the most important Cabernet Sauvignon. Bet and Cameron finally appeared. Under their "guidance", everyone changed the self-flowing wine of Cabernet Sauvignon to another fermentation tank. These wines will sit here for a period of time before the next step of lactic acid fermentation. The pressed Cabernet Sauvignon is placed in another smaller fermentation tank to be cleared. No substance was added at this stage. The wine lies quietly in the fermentation tank, waiting for the yeast to slowly die. The bodies of their bodies slowly settle to the bottom of the fermentation tank with large particles of suspended substances. Then the laboratory staff will add reagents to start the post-fermentation of the wine.

After a few days of busyness, we finally got Cabernet Sauvignon. At this time, mustard was planted in the vineyards, and the vines were watered for the last time. The field management work of the vineyard this year came to an end. David finally went to Canada with Sheriff Jonathan to hunt. Before leaving, he even announced that he would definitely hunt a bear.

Just when Xiao Yifei thought it would be easier, at least until the end of the fermentation, a more arduous task was still waiting for him, that was to change the barrel.

The wine will not be filtered before entering the oak barrel aging, so the wine contains a large amount of suspended substances and precipitates. These can be said to be impurities in the wine. If these impurities exist in the wine for a long time, it is easy to cause the wine to deteriorate. After the wine is in the oak barrel for a period of time, these impurities will slowly settle down and deposit at the bottom of the barrel. At this time, the upper wine must be pulled out and put into another oak barrel to continue aging. After a period of time, new precipitation will be produced, and the barrel will be changed.

Generally speaking, the first time the wine changes the barrel is usually done within one month after the wine enters the oak barrel. The wine is usually done once every 3 to 4 months during the first year, and there is no need to change the barrel during the subsequent aging period.

In addition to removing impurities, changing barrels can also bring different flavors to the wine, so that the flavor of the wine tends to be unified after the aging is over.

Now the barrel replacement that Xiao Yifei and the others are going to change the barrel for the last barrel for the wine brewed in 2008. In 2008, the winery of the winery contained 1,100 oak barrels. This time, the barrel replacement is a big project, but no matter how big the project is, it has to be done.

The work seemed simple, and Beau and Cameron did not come forward, and the wine cellar workers were still working under the leadership of the miserable Martin. They saw them bringing in an empty oak barrel, bringing it to the machine, and slowly transferring the wine from the oak barrel to the empty barrel. Because the wine at the bottom of the oak barrel was not absorbed, the wine in the new barrel must be dissatisfied, and then they sucked the wine from the second barrel to fill it up.

Xiao Yifei watched the workers pull the wine containing impurities into another oak barrel, and asked curiously:

"How to deal with these wines? Just throw them away or continue to age them like this, right?"

"No, after we have finished changing the barrel, these wines with a lot of impurities must be filtered once. The filtered impurities will be used for compost, and the wine will continue to be placed in the oak barrel for later use."

That's about the same. Xiao Yifei just looked at it. There were almost 10 liters of wine left in an oak barrel. The more than 1,000 barrels were more than 10,000 bottles of wine. If they were thrown away, they would just throw hundreds of thousands of dollars away. Then Xiao Yifei would be in pain.

The wine cellar is a closed space. If mechanical transportation is used, firstly, the abandonment will pollute and destroy the biological environment in the wine cellar. Secondly, the narrow wine cellar has no space to operate machinery, so the oak barrels can only be transported manually. Several workers struggled to erect the oak barrels weighing more than 200 kilograms that had just been filled, and then rolled them to the other side to store them. Even if they had changed a barrel, they thought that the whole process would have to be operated thousands of times, Xiao Yifei felt like he was collapsed instantly.

Martin also has a deep sense of this:

"Now you know why we are called 'Cellar Rats', and we move these oak barrels from here to there in the wine cellar, and then from there, and that's our daily work. It's dark."

The workers next to them also complained. Xiao Yifei could only say:

"Okay, okay, I'll take the bucket to change, I'll invite you to the town for Chinese food, okay."

Martin replied:

"Okay, it's better not to bring Cameron and the others."

These workers also responded in a verbal manner.

You said this American is the same. It is obvious that Xiao Yifei, the boss, has gone to the wine cellar to work, but the wine brewing manager, Cameron, didn't even say that he came to the boss to perform, but also changed the bucket, wasting a chance to earn performance.

Xiao Yifei then changed the barrel for a day and found that this job is not just a job of hard work, but also a job that requires rich experience. For example, when extracting, it is very challenging for the intubator to see the inside of the oak barrel. It is not easy to see the inside of the oak barrel from the small hole on the waist of the oak barrel. Therefore, it depends entirely on experience. If it is shallow, it cannot be completely extracted for clear wine. If it is deep, it will bring too many impurities. Therefore, this work is controlled by Martin, the longest and most experienced person. In addition, the most tiring handling work seems simple, but in fact, it is very troublesome to not master the inclination angle of the oak barrel well. Once the angle is small, it is impossible to roll the oak barrel at all, or the rolling distance is very short. If the angle is large, a person cannot bear the weight of the barrel, which will cause the barrel to fall to the ground and break.

After a day of hard work, Xiao Yifei finally had a real experience of the hard work and fatigue of making wine. He thought that shoveling the skin and slag the wine feet was very hard, but compared with changing the barrel, the thing was equivalent to the ordinary difficulty of the game.

After moving oak barrels in the wine cellar for a day, Xiao Yifei still felt very tired even though his body was strengthened by food in the Isis space. Back at the Bee Hill Villa, the black nose greeted him enthusiastically with a tennis ball in his mouth. Xiao Yifei rubbed his head:

"Okay, I'm so tired today, so let's not play the ball throwing game."

The black nose is almost becoming a sperm now, and it seems to understand what Xiao Yifei means. It immediately lay down, pillowed on the tennis ball with its chin, and turned its eyes to see Xiao Yifei pitifully. Seeing the disappointed eyes of the black nose, Xiao Yifei could only sigh:

"Okay, you're the old man, okay, I'll play with you for a while, for a while."

Seeing him bent down to pick up the tennis ball, he immediately got up and waving his tail. When Xiao Yifei threw the tennis ball out, he immediately chased for the tennis ball. When he chased the tennis ball, he immediately ran back to Xiao Yifei with his mouth and put the tennis ball on the ground.

Xiao Yifei picked up the tennis ball again, threw it out, and ran to pick it up again, and repeated this several times.

"I've played for a few times, okay, I haven't cooked yet."

This time, Black Nose didn't lie down and pretended to be pitiful, but just looked down at the tennis ball. Xiao Yifei could only pick it up again. Unfortunately, the strength was too high this time and the direction was not controlled well. The tennis ball bounced on a tree and fell into the vineyard. Black Nose also rushed into the vineyard to find the tennis ball. After waiting for a while, it had not come back, and saw that it was getting dark, so Xiao Yifei went to cook.

After Xiao Yifei finished eating, he put the black nose into the rice bowl. Before the black nose came back, the stubborn guy was still looking for tennis in the vineyard.

"Black nose, it's time to eat."

After shouting a few times, the black nose did not respond. Xiao Yifei was worried that he would be lost, so he came outside the house.

"Black nose, black nose."

After screaming for a few times, the black nose crawled out of the bushes. While walking, he looked back and looked outside. At a glance, he knew that it was a tennis ball that his heart had nowhere to be found.

"Okay, stop looking, look for it tomorrow."

Xiao Yifei came to the study room, opened the book, opened the phone, and began to learn the Holy Book style. After a while, the black nose came in dejectedly and lay next to Xiao Yifei. He reached out and touched its head, and saw that it was still depressed, so he took a tennis ball from the space where Isis was placing miscellaneous things for it.

Hei Nose did not pounce immediately, but licked Xiao Yifei's hand before he held the tennis ball in his mouth and refused to throw it on the ground.

"Let go, look at what you look like with tennis balls in your mouth, and your saliva flowed to the ground."

Hei Nose looked up at Xiao Yifei, obediently put down the tennis ball and pressed it with his front legs.

Seeing its careful appearance, Xiao Yifei smiled and shook his head, and continued to study.

The next day, Xiao Yifei continued to work as a porter in the wine cellar for a long time. In the afternoon, he drove to Napa City to buy a tennis serving machine. After returning home, he placed the serving machine on the corridor rack and set the parameters. With a whoosh, a tennis ball was shot out. He was stunned. His head was probably wondering why the owner didn't take action and the tennis ball flew out.

"Go and chase it."

Black Nose reacted at this time, and chased after the ball and finally took it down before the woods. Unfortunately, it didn't expect that there were two tennis balls in the machine. At this time, the machine automatically fired another tennis ball with a whoosh. Black Nose had to chase the other one with a tennis ball in her mouth. Finally, the second tennis ball was fired again.

Although the poor black nose caught up with the tennis ball, it could not hold the third tennis ball at the same time and was in a hurry to go around there.

Xiao Yifei asked the sky speechlessly.

"Okay, don't be stupid, come back first."

Black Nose looked back and looked back at another tennis ball. Xiao Yifei rubbed its dog's head, took out two tennis balls from its mouth, pointed to the third one, Black Nose immediately turned around and took it back.

Xiao Yifei thoughtfully tried how far this thing was, so he moved the machine and the black nose to the space of Isis. Adjusted to the maximum speed. It seems that the boss boasted about the maximum launch speed of the tennis ball exceeding 180 kilometers. Xiao Yifei seemed to hear the sound of the tennis ball slashing through the air, and saw the tennis ball hit the dome opposite and then bounced back. He was so desperate that he hit the stainless steel water tank that was built in the drip irrigation system, and then bounced onto the solar panel opposite the river, and finally fell into the river.

The black nose jumped out with a bang, and Xiao Yifei couldn't even call him.

Black nodded quickly came to the river, looked at the tennis ball in the water, and jumped down with a thud. After a while, he ran back with water dripping all over his body.
Chapter completed!