The cellar is some distance from the restaurant.
Mr.
Harlan walked slowly with a cane, Zhang Bin by his side.
"Mr.
Harlan, don't you feel lonely living alone?"
Zhang Bin asked.
"Actually, I'm used to it, and I don't think so.
Starting from this month, my life will revolve around this manor.
I will be busy picking grapes and making red wine until the end of the year.
Next year, when I have nothing to do, I will go to Washington to spend time with my family, or Wouldn’t it be nice for them to come to the manor for vacation during their holidays?”
Harlan said with a smile.
When you go down to the cellar, you see rows of large wooden barrels stacked inside.
"By the way, have you finished the wine I gave you last time?
Do you want to send some more this time?"
Harlan asked.
"No need, there was already a lot of wine last time, and there is still a lot more," Zhang Bin said.
"If it's gone, you can tell me.
You know, I don't have anything else.
I have a lot of wine."
Harlan walked to a wall and pushed the door card.
With a bang, the two doors suddenly opened on both sides, revealing Red wine stored inside.
Lots and lots of wine bottles of different sizes, stored on a grid.
Each bottle has a label indicating which year it was made from and what quality grapes it was made from.
"Bring the ladder over here and help me go up and get it," Harlan said, pointing to the two floors above.
Zhang Bin took the ladder, climbed up and took two bottles of red wine, one liter in size, from 1986.
Harlan took the wine and said with a smile: "In 1986, Harlan Winery made red wine for the first time.
It happened to be a good year, and the quality of the grapes was good.
Unfortunately, there were not many grapes that year, and not much was made in total.
There aren’t many left now, and it’s probably just enough for the past few years.”
"By the way, do you want some champagne?"
Mr.
Harlan suddenly said with a smile, casually placed two bottles of 1986 wine on the grid, and led Zhang Bin to another wall.
This time, the two doors locked with keys opened and entered another cellar.
There was champagne inside, packed in small wooden barrels.
There was a stopper underneath, and when opened, the champagne flowed out.
"You also have champagne here?"
Zhang Bin was a little curious.
He always thought that Harlan Winery only sold red wine, but it was not surprising when he thought that champagne was also made from grapes.
Although grapes are also used to make champagne, they are not the green grapes that Zhang Bin saw this morning.
Instead, they mainly use white grapes, mixed with some red grapes, and the freshest grapes must be used for brewing.
Sometimes due to taste problems, Add some sugar appropriately.
Mr.
Harlan laughed and said: "It's not right to say it's champagne, it's actually just sparkling wine."
"Sparkling wine" Zhang Bin was a little confused, what kind of wine is this?
"Because the production process of champagne is more complicated than that of red wine, it is difficult to make champagne with authentic taste.
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Only champagne produced in France can be called champagne, and those produced outside can only be called sparkling wine at best," Mr.
Harlan explained .
Zhang Bin nodded, indicating that he understood.
"Can you give me two barrels of this?"
Zhang Bin asked.
Relatively speaking, drinking champagne is actually better when he is with Song Zhichao and the others.
This is brewed by oneself, which is definitely more reliable than champagne bought from outside.
"Of course it's no problem.
I brewed hundreds of barrels this year, and I also have some old vintage champagne.
Why don't you try some?
The taste is very exciting," Mr.
Harlan said generously.
After breakfast, it’s time for the annual Napa Valley Red Wine Festival.
Walking throughout the valley, the aroma of wine is everywhere.
The two small streets are a bit like a small town, with bars, restaurants and even a police station.
On both sides of the street, wineries display red wine everywhere.
On this day, Napa Valley is open to all tourists.
The red wine here is all free today.
You can enjoy it here for this day only.
There are a lot of people, including wealthy businessmen and ordinary people.
They all have hobbies or are busy.
In short, on this day, they are willing to walk around Napa Valley and drink free red wine.
The owners of the manor warmly greet every guest who comes to taste their own red wine.
For them, whose red wine consumes more means that whose wine is of good quality and may be sold at a good price.
Zhang Bin took Zhou Jingyu around and the first place he drank from was Will from Lilan Winery whom he met before.
Will still had an impression of Zhang Bin and invited him to come over and taste it.
Zhang Bin actually doesn't know much about red wine, but he only needs to know one thing, that is, just praise it after drinking it.
After looking at all the red wines, he tasted them twice in total.
Finally, Zhang Bin took Zhou Jingyu back to the location of Harlan Winery.
They needed to do something to help Mr.
Harlan.
The wine tasting lasted until five o'clock in the evening.
In the United States, people do not have the habit of working at night.
For them, night is a time to rest and spend time with their families.
In the afternoon, the annual Napa Valley Wine Auction was held in a bar in Napa Valley.
The bar counter is used as an auction table, and two or three tables below are put together.
Each winery owner takes his guests to sit in a corresponding position and sit in a circle.
This is the first time for Zhang Bin to do this kind of auction.
See.
The table was filled with some local fruits and snacks for guests to entertain themselves.
In the bar, Zhang Bin spotted several Asian faces, but did not say hello because he was not sure whether the language was connected.
The winery owners hugged each other to greet each other and joked, and the atmosphere was lively.
When everyone arrived, the auction began.
After tasting by the wine connoisseurs, the red wines from the twenty wineries were finally selected for auction today.
The base price is one US dollar.
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You can tell the price yourself.
All proceeds from the wine sold here will be used for charity.
Therefore, every winery owner is very concerned about the price that his wine can fetch.
From the first wine auction, the atmosphere has been high.
Until the sixth wine auction, the price of the wine was not less than 5,000 US dollars.
Johnson bid $12,000 for a bottle of red wine.
The Hawkes never made an offer.
The twelfth red wine is from Harlan Winery.
Bought by a bearded man for thirty-six thousand dollars.
Zhang Bin bid $25,000 for the red wine from the penultimate winery, Chateau Belland.
There is no direct relationship between the price of the wine and the order in which it appears.
This is the order in which the farmers draw their own wines.
"Very good, this customer from Harlan Winery has paid 25,000 US dollars.
Is there anyone else who bids higher?"
the person in charge of the auction shouted excitedly.
Hawks never made a move, and Zhang Bin knew that he was determined to get the last red wine.
I heard it was Stags Leap Winery.
In Napa Valley, Stags Leap Winery is one of the most famous wineries.
Zhang Bin finally bought the bottle of red wine from Belland Winery for US$30,000.
"Thank you for your generosity," the host said loudly to Zhang Bin, and everyone clapped and looked over.
Everyone respects those who are generous at this time.
In the final auction, Hawkes spent US$55,000 to buy the last bottle of wine in today's auction, which is this year's wine king.
"It's really gratifying.
The guests of Harlan Winery donated a total of 97,000 US dollars to charity tonight, becoming today's charity kings.
Let us applaud them and thank them for their generosity."
A red wine event came to an end just like that
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