"The treasure of the Knights Templar is here at the winery?"

At dinner, Adjani was taken aback by what Zhang Nan told her!

In winter, there was nothing going on in the winery, and few workers and technicians were left to run the château, and Monsieur de Count, who was in charge of production, only came once every half a month.

This will be Zhang Nan coming, after the winter management staff have done the necessary work, they have already left this morning, and will not come back in ten days.

Just go on vacation or go home and nest, they will never be here anyway.

The castle is not a factory, the staff can leave for a short time in the second half of winter, and there will be no problems with the newly brewed wine.

The castle restaurant is full of Zhang Nan's people, and the treasure of the Knights Templar can be said casually. But what surprised Adjani was that there were coincidences in this world, but it was a bit too much to coincide to this extent!

"According to the sign on the cross, some of them are at the top of the hill, but it is not certain whether they were under the ground of the castle or if they were found and taken hundreds of years ago. ”

Hearing this, Adjani's eyes blinked, "You don't want to demolish this place, do you?"

Zhang Nan laughed, raised the wine glass on the table, shook it slightly, and looked at the dripping gold rot wine in the glass that was obviously hanging on the wall because of the high sugar content.

"I can't help it, this winery has spent almost four hundred million dollars, even if all those crowns of the Kingdom of Jerusalem are here, how many can they have?

Besides, I'm not interested in the menorah and the Golden Gospel in King Solomon's Temple, just to satisfy my desire to hunt for treasure.

That little treasure is not as real as these white wines. ”

Well, Zhang Nan called Lysalus noble rot white wine...

By the way, noble rot wines are sweet white wines, and Château Lysalus only produces sweet white wines.

As for some people calling it dripping gin, not only is the wine golden, but it probably also means that it is expensive!

Nicole bought all the property rights of the castle and almost all of the wines, and only allowed the Count of Lysarus to move out of the small part of the wines under absolute supervision.

The glass was a six-year-old 1985 wine that Tom Jackson, who arrived a day early, personally selected from the sprawling cellar.

Each vintage has a different best time to drink noble rot, usually between 5 and 100 years, because of the extremely high sugar content of noble rot, it is best to store new wine for a few years before drinking, and some vintages can have a shelf life of more than 100 years!

Of course, a year old is also suitable for drinking, but it will be a little less interesting.

6 years old, which is a very short age among Lysalus noble rots, but the 1985 Lysalus is of very high quality and has a large inventory in the cellar.

The housekeeper understands the boss's habits, he has not been by Zhang Nan's side for a long time, but his lover has served in the manor since the boss and the two wives started their careers, and he is clear about the employer's habits and hobbies.

The boss does not have high requirements for wine, even if he drinks dry red, he prefers a slightly sweet taste, which has something in common with the old European aristocrats, and the noble rot sweet wine here is simply tailor-made for him.

And the boss also has a very good service characteristic: he doesn't pay so much attention to the vintage and price of the wine, only talks about his own taste, and his taste preference for wine is like an antique living in the 19th century.

Historically, noble rot sweet white has been the mainstream of wine consumption in the world, because sugar was a very scarce nutrient for hundreds of years, and many sweet wines were treasures that only the royal family and the great nobles could enjoy.

This does not need to be said by others, even a few years ago in Zhang Nan's hometown, there were department stores or southern goods stores to buy some sugar during the New Year's holiday, and then wrapped it into a traditional package with that kind of rough and thick media paper, plus the dried lychee in the same package is a good New Year's gift.

Visiting patients is also like giving sugar, and the price will never be dropped!

However, the taste preference of Westerners for wine has changed dramatically, and more people have begun to like excellent dry wines, and sweet white wines have long been not the mainstream in the Western world.

As for in the East, noble rot does not seem to have been popular.

The owner loves sweetness, and in the autumn of 1985 in the Bordeaux region, God was very helpful, and the climatic conditions such as temperature and precipitation were very similar to the best in 1947 and 1949 in the last hundred years, or even better!

There were no extreme weather conditions that affected the growth of noble rot, and the 150 employees of Château Lysalus spent several months in the vineyard selecting the most ripe grapes infested with noble rot until December of that year.

In a normal year, it would be time to pick it all up in November.

For a beautiful noble rot wine, the late harvest is like a big gamble, because the other terrible outcome of the late harvest is that when the strong cold air comes, the grapes are lost a lot or even no grains!

Take a break from cooking, and be busy all year round!

In Sauternes, only Château Lysalus dares to do this: at all times, Château Lysalus guarantees a must of more than 340 grams per litre of sugar, while other nearby wineries guarantee more than 200 grams per litre.

Those aren't cheap wineries, and the botrytis they produce is expensive!

The musts of the grapes harvested in 1985 had a sugar content of more than 400 grams per liter due to the long hanging time of the grapes, and the shelf life of the Lysalus noble rot wine was even more than 200 years!

As for the 47 and 49 vintages, they were available in the cellar, but not much, because there were not many of them, and according to the purchase agreement, the Piaget family took a third of them.

The boss is very generous when he is generous, but sometimes he looks like a miser when he hides things, and Tom knows these things, so this will take out the 85-year-old wine.

The guys who came this time drank a good amount of alcohol, and the boss was happy, and the people who were not on duty here could drink the noble rot wine as a cheap table wine!

Zhang Nan valued the wine castle, and Adjani smiled at this: "I think that in the future, the wine castle can be handed over to the baby completely, even if he grows up and is stupid, he can live a worry-free life with this wine castle..."

When a mother is not everyone who wants her child to be one in ten thousand, she thinks that the next generation will be safe and well, and Adjani is one of them.

In this transaction, the price of the winery's land per hectare of vineyards was 2 million US dollars, and today's sky-high price, combined with the château itself and the wine stored in it, has become a super high price of nearly 400 million US dollars!

But in another 20 years, Zhang Nan thinks that the price of vineyards in this first château will be 20 times that number!

But this will Adjani is also complaining, "... The inheritance tax set by the government is too high, 45%, I went to find out, some people in the vicinity have inherited the family winery, and they have not paid the inheritance tax for more than 10 years, and some are almost unable to survive.

The bastards up there don't know what to think, they are not satisfied with this tax, and they have made some special regulations for the wineries, so as to force the French wine industry to a dead end......"

Adjani is French, but she is not French at heart, and she scoffs at some of the practices of the Gallic rooster!

The inheritance tax is also a lot in the United States, and it is high enough in France, but Zhang Nan doesn't care about these, and the two money rakes in the family have a way to avoid taxes, which is popular on Wall Street.

Some of the wealth on the surface can avoid taxes, and some of the United States can't control it at all, because they are not in the United States at all.

As for those in the secret, let alone the United States, God can't take care of it!

Zhang Nan is still young, and he won't pay attention to any inheritance tax issues these years, but he will listen to Adjani's spit and understand why Nicole must write this sky-high price of Lysarus Wine Castle to Zhang Xingchen's name.

It's because of that damn inheritance tax of the French!

In France in the thirties and forties, wine-making families were able to pay off the inheritance tax after a year of operating a winery.

But now, if you want to pay off the inheritance tax stipulated by the French government, you have to go through at least ten years of operation, or even longer to fill that big hole!

The reality in France is that high inheritance taxes are a heavy burden on wineries that do not sell well, because they simply cannot afford to pay them.

It is extremely difficult to inherit a vineyard in France, and the price of vineyards is rising, which means that those who want to inherit a family vineyard face a higher inheritance tax.

France has one of the highest inheritance tax rates in the world, with a $100,000 vineyard worth 45% taxed, and the world's top wineries like Château Lysalus have to prepare a treasury to inherit it!

Rising land prices aren't the biggest problem, French law is-and-!

There are many laws and regulations governing the succession of vineyards by Gallic roosters, some of which are even preserved from the Napoleonic period, and some of them are simply incredible!

According to the Napoleonic Laws, which are specific to wineries, any property owned by an individual must be divided into equal proportions according to the number of heirs in the family after his death.

This means that if a winery owner has three children, whether his children want to inherit the winery or not, he must divide the estate's assets into three equal shares.

In the later stages of the winery, it was up to the children to decide whether to run the three of them together, or whether one of them would buy back the shares held by the other two.

If the castle of Lysalus is written in Adjani's name, then in a few decades, the castle will not belong to Zhang Xingchen alone, even if Adjani writes a will, it is useless!