"Fang, why are you here... Roast rabbit?"

David ran over from afar, and when he saw Fang Luo roasting rabbit meat in a leisurely manner, he couldn't help but pat his head: "My God, it's a shame that you still have this mood." Fang, Willy, the owner of Mermaid Manor, and his master winemaker, Ellen, are arrogant guys, and by the way, they also brought red wine..."

"Mermaid Manor, and bring red wine?"

Fang Luo didn't react, handed the rabbit meat to Xiao Yamei beside him, and said a little casually: "Are they here to be guests? Mr. David, you know that I'm not interested in this kind of thing, it's good to have Mr. Sean to receive them." ”

"Guest, are you kidding? Fang, Willy won't get along so well, they're here to demonstrate. Oh, I almost forgot that you don't know the rules of the French wine world......"

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and there will be competition and fighting.

After listening to David's explanation, Fang Luo understood that the drama was about to be staged again.

In the Bordeaux region, there are 61 classified wineries, among which Lafite, Margaux, Latour, Obiang and Mouton are giant first-class wineries, which are the highest AAC legal appellation wineries.

And this spring, it is an important moment for wineries to be upgraded and downgraded, and the overlords have not moved, and the fourth-level wineries at the bottom have followed suit, and these second- and third-level wineries have begun to move.

This mermaid château, which is the best of the Bordeaux third-class wineries, has not succeeded in the first two years of the second-level winery, and this year is determined to win, and the first thing they need to do to successfully promote to the second level is to level the competition.

The companies responsible for the evaluation of the upgrading of the winery are the French National Office for Interprofessional Wine and the French National Association of Originations. The former is mainly responsible for the grading and daily management of regional and daily table wines, while the latter is responsible for fine regional table wines and statutory regional table wines. In order for a winery to upgrade from the fourth level to the third level, it only needs to produce wine that meets the standards, and the number of sales in the previous year, especially the number of exports, can reach a certain standard, and there is no quota limit; And from the third level to the second level or even the first class winery is not so simple, the amount of restrictions and the rise and fall system, each wine production area has a fixed quota, up one to fight down, for example, in the Bordeaux area there can only be five first-class wineries, if there is a second-class winery up, then there must be a former overlord to be beaten down and relegated!

Listening to David, as early as a month ago, Willy of Mermaid Winery started a door-to-door 'exchange' activity, and so far, seven or eight third-level wineries have been 'exchanged'... ，

This kind of exchange is not a mutual exchange between friends and a goodwill exchange within the industry, but the 'unspoken rule' hidden in the French wine world usually appears at the moment when the winery is upgraded or upgraded. In order to eliminate the influence from their opponents as much as possible, some powerful wineries will bring their latest wines and the best winemakers to visit the rival wineries.

And this kind of superficially very polite exchange visit is impossible to refuse, Lao Maozi is insidious and much more difficult than the Chinese Lianjiazi, encountering this kind of door-to-door provocation 'exchanged' winery, whether out of face or out of false politeness, must take out their new wine to fight, and then the smoke of gunpowder is hidden under the table, the war is hidden in the smile After the two sides push the glass and change the lamp, the party with good wine quality will send a winemaker to sweep the other party's face in the name of tasting.

Although this kind of 'exchange' is not a completely face-tearing competition, over the years, it has gradually been recognized by the industry, and the side that usually loses in the exchange will not have the face to compete for the promotion spot. Over time, the result of this kind of civil secret struggle has also been tacitly acquiesced by the National Liquor Interprofessional Office and the National Association of Geographical Names of Origin, and even if the losing party in the 'exchange' is cheeky to apply for an upgrade, it will be ignored by the government as air... ，

"I didn't expect that the French who love peace and art also have such dirty thoughts, and the people who run on can be so gentlemanly, but they are much more cunning than our Chinese people......"

Fang Luo smiled bitterly and shook his head, feeling that these French gentlemen were not good goods.

He is also a hard worker, Cheng Dong was bullied as soon as he returned to Marie Manor in Paris, if Cheng Dong was still there, he would be an expert in dealing with this situation.

"Fang, I heard that Willy has brought in a top winemaker from Burgundy, and last year his estate introduced new varieties of grapes to make a batch of very high quality wines. He has great ambitions, this time he is here to bully old Sean, you must find a way, old Sean doesn't know what to do now......"

"Me?"

Fang Luo was a little speechless, and said in his heart that people want to compare new wine, if the wine in Mary's Manor is not good, I don't have a problem?

Are you really using me as a magician who transforms into a human being?

But anyway, he is also half the owner of Mary's Manor, and he has been bullied by others, so he has to think about it, so he has to say: "Nacheng, let's go and see." By the way, David, is there any new wine on the estate that can reach the second grade?"

The classification of the winery is not exactly the same as the new wine produced by the winery, and the third-level winery may not be able to produce some second-quality wines, but the influence and sales ability cannot be compared with the real second-level winery, and the law has not been recognized by the government, so Fang Luo still has some hopes, maybe old Sean can also have a big explosion of luck?

"Don't think about it. It's been a long time since the estate has been brewed......"

David shook his head, ending Fang Luo's thoughts.

When Fang Luo arrived, Old Sean was hugging his shoulders and looking at the three people sitting opposite him angrily. His face was ugly, as if he had seen a demon suddenly emerging from hell on Halloween, and even the beauty on the other side was affected, and the beauty was embarrassed, and opened her mouth several times, but closed it again.

Old Sean was not afraid of challenges, he had always been strong enough, and even once felt extremely sorry that he did not catch up with the Great Patriotic War in France, and failed to become a soldier of General Weygand to resist the German devils; But he really can't calmly face Willie, a conspirator, Mermaid Manor has been majestic enough recently, but this bastard still has to step on Mary's Manor, what a guy who eats grapes and doesn't spit out grape skins!

Too vicious!

"Ah, it's Fang, why are you here!"

When the embarrassed beauty saw Fang Luo walk in, her eyes suddenly lit up, as if she had seen a life-saving straw.

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