Following Highway 29, Ferrari drove through the town of Caristoga and turned into the forest path.

There is a large tall and dense forest, and there is no blue sky. Only the uneven sunlight passes through the gaps in the branches and leaves. Walking forward, behind the woods is short bushes. Soon, the sunlight suddenly becomes clear and makes people mistakenly think that it is about to arrive. Unexpectedly, the road is getting smaller and smaller, but fortunately the path gradually becomes wider and the end of the road is ahead.

This is really "there is no way out at the end of the road, and the dark willows and flowers are bright."

When he came to the winery, Xiao Yifei's observation angle was different from that of ordinary people. The first thing he saw was the parking lot. When he found that their parking lots were also one by one, Xiao Yifei was happy. It seemed that the old winery was like this and had not planned it in advance. Xiao Yifei now has an open space provided by the horse farm, so he could take the opportunity to integrate the existing parking lot of the winery.

Xiao Yifei did not go to the reception center and the tasting room first, but instead waved around outside and found another brand, "j Davis Winery".

At the entrance of the reception center, there is a small pond with some water lilies planted inside. There is a sculpture standing in the middle of the pond. A frog in a tuxedo and a bow tie stands in one foot in the water. It holds a champagne bottle in one hand and a flute-shaped champagne glass in the other raised upwards.

With a few snaps against the pond and the frogs, Wang Nan couldn't wait to pull Xiao Yifei to the tasting room. For all the wineries, it was off-season, and the tasting room of the Shiji Berg was empty.

I'm going, it's too expensive. It costs $35 to taste wine. Our Montrena is only $25. It's expensive and difficult to find, so there deserve few tourists.

Xiao Yifei complained while handing over two portions of wine.

The first glass of wine was poured for Xiao Yifei and the others. Xiao Yifei tasted it, it was good.

When they were tasting their second glass, a capable brown woman in her thirties walked into the tasting room.

"Xiao. Welcome to our winery. I am Lisa Beardsley, the winery tasting room manager."

"Hello, do you know me?"

"You are the most popular figure in our Kalistoga this year, and everyone knows you. Sorry, Hugh is not at the winery today, and the Executive President Fred goes out to discuss business with other senior executives."

"It's okay. I just brought my friends to play, nothing else."

"Then can I have the honor to be your tour guide?"

Khan, it’s nice to say flattering words from the foreigners:

"Then I'll trouble you."

The next visit to the wine cellar will be carried out by Beardsley personally with Xiao Yifei and the others.

"Maybe Mr. Xiao doesn't know that our wine cellar was dug by Chinese workers back then."

The Chinese workers can be said to have a lot to do with the wine production in Napa. Many wineries are founded in the process of establishing many wineries. In addition to their wine cellars, the wine cellars of the Beilingzhe Winery were also excavated by the Chinese workers.

As soon as you enter the wine cellar, you hear a sound of dongdong. On the shelves on both sides of the wine cellar, there are bottles densely packed with wine bottles. These bottles are placed downwards, tilted by more than 30 degrees, and the one side facing the human side is round bottle bottoms. Just like countless rocket launchers facing you, and these racks are not one or two, except for the passages in the entire wine cellar. If a person with intensive phobia comes, he will probably faint immediately.

The wine in the Monterrena wine cellar is either aged in oak barrels or wrapped in protective films on the outside of the bottled box and left in piles of standing. There has never been a bottle just like this.

"What's going on with these bottles?"

"They are undergoing secondary fermentation, which is the period when bubbles are produced by sparkling wine."

After Beardsley's explanation, Xiao Yifei finally understood the basic brewing process of sparkling wine.

The initial stage is similar to brewing quiet wine. Fermentation in a fermenter, converting the sugar in the grape juice into alcohol. The next step is different. According to different brewing methods, some will be aged oak barrels for a period of time before bottled, while others will be bottled directly.

Before bottling, these wines will be added with appropriate amount of sugar or unfermented grape juice, and new yeast should be added. In this way, the yeast and sugar in the bottle will be fermented for a second time, and the carbon dioxide produced will dissolve in the wine to form bubbles.

After briefly explaining the brewing process, the three of them also came to the place where the sound of dongdong was made.

An ordinary American old man in his 50s met Xiao Yifei and the others:

"Lisa, are you coming down to play?"

The old man did not stop his hand as he spoke. He saw his skillful hands holding a wine bottle, and quickly rotated them at an angle and then put them down. The bottle made a thud sound, and then his hands moved to the wine bottle next to him. Another thud sound, and then moved his hands again.

After repeated this, he quickly finished a shelf in front of him.

"This is Shaw of Monterrena Winery, who comes to play with friends. Shaw, this is Romon Viera, the vibration supervisor of our cellar."

"I know, Xiao, a rich Chinese, welcome to the wine cellar."

Romon seems to have a generous personality.

"Romon, what are you doing?"

It turns out that the reason why wine bottles are poured 30 degrees and placed on the shelf is to allow dead yeast corpses to gather at the mouth of the bottle. Moreover, every once in a while, the wine bottle must be rotated to a certain angle to prevent the yeast corpses from sticking to the wall of the bottle. Their corpses will not be able to be made out in the future, affecting the consumer's perception.

After saying that, Romon took out a bottle of sparkling wine and let Xiao Yifei see it.

I saw that at the mouth of the bottle, there was indeed a pile of white flocs in the wine. If this thing stuck to the bottle, it would indeed make consumers feel disgusted.

Xiao Yifei thought about it and he couldn't find any good way to get rid of them.

"How can I get it out then? Will I pour out the wine if I open the bottle?"

"It must be opened, but it's not that simple. Now we don't have a production line, so I can only tell you. Look, these flocs are at the mouth of the bottle. Then, put the bottle upside down in salt water at minus 25 degrees Celsius to freeze the wine at the mouth of the bottle, and these flocs will be frozen in the ice. Then we use the machine to open the bottle quickly. Under the internal pressure, the ice at the mouth of the bottle will be sprayed out, so there will be no yeast corpses inside."

"This method is really great. Who invented it?"

"Are you asking about vibration or freezing?

“All.”

"I know the vibration method was invented by Mrs. Kaige, and I don't know who the freezing method is."

Mrs. Kaige, Xiao Yifei heard the name of this great woman again. It turned out that she not only created the name of Kaige Champagne, but also invented such a good way to remove yeast.

Before Mrs. Kegg invented the vibration method of turning the bottle, it was difficult for people to remove the precipitation produced during the fermentation of champagne. The workers clumsily poured the wine from one bottle to another to remove the residue accumulated at the bottom of the bottle. However, in this way, the extremely precious bubbles in the champagne escaped and the taste was less aftertaste. This seemed like a chronic disease, affecting the leap in the quality of champagne.

Mrs. Kaige vowed to solve this problem. After several explorations, she finally came up with an almost revolutionary "bottle-turning method" for making wine. She drilled holes on the table and put the champagne bottle upside down in the hole so that the scum at the bottom would slowly sink to the mouth of the bottle. The only handwork required was to carefully turn the scum to prevent the scum from sticking to the bottle.

Legend has it that the first champagne table was made of Mrs. Kaige's table. Whether it is true or false, one thing is certain, Mrs. Kaige succeeded. The clear and flawless wine made Kaige's champagne popular all over the world. People would rather wait in the port to wait for Mrs. Kaige's champagne from afar than buy a bottle of other brand wine from the same origin.

I believe this is one of the reasons why Mrs. Kaige is called the "Mother of Champagne".

Seeing Romon chatting, he turned the champagne wines on the following shelves, and Wang Nan also became interested.

"Can I try it?"

Romon agreed to her request without hesitation and enthusiastically guided her to point out.

"You should be light when grabbing. The movement should be small, and the rotation should only be one-eighth of a turn, and it should be lighter when put back. Just like this."

After saying that, I was a series of sounds like dongdong.

Poor Wang Nan is still competing with the third bottle. Romon has already made a move.

She didn't count on her busy work, so she also asked for trouble for Xiao Yifei:

"Pick me up, why are you standing stupidly?"

Xiao Yifei could only point to the camera at Billsley. Because when he entered the wine cellar, the notice on the wall said that he could not take pictures or apply perfume.

"It's okay to take a few photos."

So Xiao Yifei picked up the camera and clicked a few pictures.

The entire wine cellar is one kilometer long, but it is basically the same as wine. After leaving the wine cellar, Beardsley took Xiao Yifei and the others to the reception room. The tasting room hosted Xiao Yifei and the others' third glass, which was a glass of peach champagne. Beardsley also brought a glass to the photo on the wall to explain the history of the winery to Xiao Yifei.

Among them, Xiao Yifei saw the famous "Peace Toast". Wang Nan and Xiao Yifei immediately discovered something wrong.

"Uh, he..."

Wang Nan was about to say something when he was about to say something when Xiao Yifei's foot was stepped on. She looked back at Xiao Yifei in confusion. But she didn't say anything or asked nothing.

Fortunately, Wang Nan just spoke Chinese. Billsley, who didn't understand what was going on, continued to explain. In addition to the photos, there were also those written by Nixon.

"To Jack Davis of Brewer. As you can see, this is a good year. Richard Nixon"

Hoo, this is awesome, President Nixon's letter of praise written by himself.

Then Beardsley pointed to two more cups and said:

“This is the wine glass used at that time.”

Just kidding, it can be said that Nixon brought the wine with him. Do you have to bring the wine glasses with you, and you have to bring them back?

Xiao Yifei compared the wine glasses in the photo and the two wine glasses displayed below the photo. They were both disc-shaped cups, or bowl-shaped cups that were common at that time.

This wine glass has a shallow and open large diameter glass mouth. The purpose is to easily stack champagne glasses into high towers on celebration or wedding occasions, so that the champagne liquid can flow into each glass along the wine glass tower. However, the open glass mouth allows the bubbles to dissipate quickly, and the delicate and elegant aroma of champagne disappeared, so this type of glass gradually lost the market.

According to rumors, the shape of the cup is designed with the breast shape of Queen Mary, the wife of King Louis XIV of France. Some say it is designed with the breast shape of Mrs. Pompidou, known as the "Emperor's Official Mistress". However, these are all fake, because the wine glass appeared 100 years before these two people. And if these two people were this breast shape, the French king would probably cry.

"This wine is delicious and has a good color. I want to buy five boxes."

Wang Nan raised the peach champagne in his hand and signaled.

Xiao Yifei was sweating coldly.

"Where did you buy champagne and send it to?"

Wang Nan blinked his eyes:

"I sent it to school? Not good. I couldn't drink much and was killed by those classmates. I sent it to my house? But I won't go back after summer vacation."

"Okay, I won't buy too much. I'll buy three boxes."

"Do you need to send it to the school? Is there no champagne sold around your school? It's impossible. Toronto is a big city at least. French champagne is definitely sold in wine stores."

"Yes, then I'll buy two boxes? One box is sent home. One box is drunk during the winter vacation?"

Xiao Yifei's sweat:

"You are planning to drink 12 bottles of champagne on 10 days of winter vacation?"

"I can't drink it, so I will leave it to you. It's my stay and food fee."
To be continued...