The cellar of the château is divided into several sections, both underground and on the ground, which meet the storage requirements of noble rot wine of different vintages and different storage packages.

The place where Zhang Nan and Adjani walked into was an underground pillar-vaulted wine cellar, typical of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, with the ceiling, columns, and surrounding walls all pale yellow.

The ceiling is equipped with chandeliers that glow yellow, and the pillars are also wall lamps of the same color temperature, which are said to have a soft light, and it is said that this light does not interfere with the storage of wine in the neatly arranged oak barrels.

"Oak barrels are opaque, aren't they?"

I have doubts in my head, but I don't bother to ask why, which is just listening to my housekeeper casually.

The staff at the winery had been placed on mandatory leave, and Tom Jackson was flanked by the two.

Seeing that Zhang Nan was a little interested in the neatly arranged large wooden barrels in the wine cellar, Tom said: "This is the No. 12 warehouse, and the new wine from the year before and 89 years old is placed. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Nan touched a large oak barrel on the side and said, "All the new barrels used here?"

As far as the eye can see, all of them are new barrels, and not a single old barrel is very different from the situation in those old French wineries that you have seen in movies and television: many of the new wines are made from old barrels, which are said to make the barrels more mellow.

The boss had questions, and Tom the butler said, "Yes, boss, this is the tradition of the Château de Lysalus..."

Some chteateaux use old wooden barrels, but Château Lusalus has always used new oak barrels, which are said to be the most suitable for the noble rot wine produced by their own winery.

Each family has a secret recipe, and what suits you is the one that is good.

This cellar alone is huge, and two years of new wine have not been sold, so it needs to be stored for a few years.

As for last year's wine, it is still stored in the huge wooden barrels in the brewery above, and it has not yet been distributed.

After a cursory look, it was not only Zhang Nan and the three of them here, but there were bodyguards pushing two ground-penetrating radars in the aisles on the side to check the underground situation.

There are many wines, all new wines, and the wines that have been able to be sold in other cellars.

After this circle, before going to the cellar next door to have a look, Zhang Nan asked Tom: "When was the earliest wine in the winery?"

Zhang Nan heard from Nicole that the Earl family added some clauses to the final transfer agreement, and took away some of the most precious wines in the castle in proportion.

It's written on paper, and as for those who don't know, God knows how much was taken.

There's no way around it, the castle was someone else's house at that time, and you can't control what others move.

As for the ones that are left in the wine castle and sold to you, they have calculated it: it is cost-effective, although the buyer is unreasonable, but the proper person is stupid and has a lot of money!

There's no way to sell you, people don't want to sell it in the first place!

Zhang Nan really doesn't know how many years of old wine are left in the wine castle, this is all a weapon of coercion, sometimes when he eats with friends and takes a bottle of old wine with a saying...

It's very good!

Tom Jackson didn't have to think much about it: "At present, the earliest collection in the castle is the 1811 vintage, all bottles, originally there were 17 bottles, and Mr. Earl took 6 bottles according to the contract, and the current price of each bottle is about 50,000 US dollars."

The premise of this price is that the number of wines in the collection has never been disclosed, and there are only three bottles of 1811 Lysalus noble rot in the collection, so the price calculated in the contract is $45,000 each. ”

Commercial means, Tom Jackson, as the most reliable housekeeper of Zhang Nan's family, can of course know the amount of wine here: a secret of such value should be a family secret to the original Mr. Earl, but it is nothing to Zhang Nan's family.

Since he arrived here early to prepare, Tom had to know a little about the situation in the castle, otherwise no one else would be able to find the wine of a certain vintage that the boss needed after all the original staff were forced to take a holiday.

Dinner want to drink the 1947 vintage, but don't know where, and then dozens of bodyguards go to a dozen cellars to go carpet searching?

It's funny!

The castle is so big that it will take at least a few weeks for a newcomer to get hold of the number of wines in the cellar.

Fortunately, Tom had the statistics of the cellar on hand, which were left over from the handover, and questions about the vintage and so on bothered him.

But!

Tom said honestly, "But, boss, I only know that the 11 bottles of wine are in cellar 1, but I haven't seen the exact location." ”

Zhang Nan waved his hand slightly, meaning that it didn't matter.

He said to Adjani, "It seems that you have to find someone to take a good plate of the wine here." ”

The woman smiled, didn't speak, just understood the meaning.

This person is good and bad, and he has different standards for dealing with people. For example, Zhang Nan likes to think of outsiders as evil: every family will basically have a secret at the bottom of the box, maybe the wine castle originally had a longer storage of wine, but this will no longer be his.

But he didn't care if it wasn't, it was enough to get this wine castle.

There are a lot of wines in the castle, and I have visited cellars 2 and 3, and the wine in cellar 3 has already begun to be bottled and sold.

The number is large, that is because the Château de Lysalus has 100 hectares of grape fields, which is more than 1,500 acres and one square kilometer in terms of measurement that Zhang Nan is familiar with!

It will never be like some famous wineries deliberately for the sake of quality and gimmicks to engage in "grape by grain hand-selected", "characteristics and what commanders", and then a winery will divide the annual wine production into three, six, nine and so on, the highest one is two or three hundred bottles a year, each bottle can be sold for 5,000 US dollars.

Château Lysalus has one product a year, but in the last 40 years, there have been two years in which the quality of the grapes has been poor due to the climate, and Monsieur de Count has decided not to make a bottle of wine!

The quality of the noble rot here is not a maverick grain to select, but by the overall quality of the guarantee, so the price of each bottle of Lysalus noble rot wine in a general year is between 200 and 400 US dollars depending on the year, and the annual output is not small.

It's still expensive, but it's within the range of what you can afford to drink — it's available in the U.S. market for more than $300 a bottle in slightly lower years, and the middle class can occasionally enjoy it.

The only classified super first class winery, the concept is very "close to the people", perhaps when it was first selected, its winemaking concept is also one of the reasons for its unique status.

Don't engage in gimmicks, my wine is used to drink, not just put in the wine cellar and wine cabinet as decorations, and it is not a prop for people to invest in high investment!

Why does this concept feel so familiar?

......

I didn't bother the bodyguards and Jerry and the others to search, I just hoped that the things were not under the cellar that was hundreds of years old, otherwise it would be a problem to make a trade-off.

It's not difficult to dig a hole, but it is said that such a small action will affect the quality of the sake, which is really troublesome!

Two days later, something was discovered.