Another reason why Argentine wine is not famous is that although they have nearly 50,000 hectares of vineyards and hundreds of wineries, they produce very little wine, less than 1o%, and most of it is drunk by the Argentines themselves, which can also be seen how passionate the locals are about wine. $(). ()(x). ()

However, Hong Tao himself has no research on wine, and he likes to drink it, but he only drinks it, and he can't taste it, just like he drinks tea, he has drunk it for most of his life, and he still can't drink the variety and quality of tea. He could only tell from the label that Ralph had brought him two red wines and one white wine.

The most is the RE color RVA brand, the specific name of Hong Tao is not clear, the name of the wine is Renebar, the translation should be Barbir, the year is in 1972, this vintage is very good, not that the grapes of this year are good, but because Hong Tao was born in this year, so he thinks that everything that can come to the world with him should be beautiful!

There is also the E1Tango brand, the word is the meaning of tango, the name of the wine is 1Otengo, produced in the Mendoza region of Norton Winery, the wine label is very interesting, it is a pair of men and women dancing tango, but the man is illusory, Hong Tao can't understand what it means.

Those bottles of white grapes were very interesting, Hong Tao first saw it and thought that Ralph had brought him the wrong one, because there were two Chinese characters on the wine label: sushi! It's called oroya, and the transliteration is called good luck, and the meaning of the two words sushi is that it is very suitable with sushi, sashimi and other foods.

The big suitcase was full of wine and tea. Naturally, there were cigarettes in the small suitcase, but when Hong Tao opened it, it was only revealed that the cigars were only half of the box, and the other half was still all kinds of cigar tools and books. I also plan to cultivate Hong Tao's taste for life.

Compared with wine, Hong Tao knows a little more about cigars, and in his last life he also played buckets and cigars with a group of fishing friends for a few days. But like everything else, he is a dragonfly, a little bit of water, and never delves into it.

Cigars. Speaking of which. It is the best in Cuba, in fact, it is true, but not all Cuban tobacco is good, only the tobacco in the western province of Pinar de Rio (Pinar de Rio) is the top. In addition to the soil problems, the climate here is also very special, with plenty of rainfall and a bit colder than other regions.

Speaking of cigars, we have to talk about the cultivation of cigar tobacco leaves. Growing tobacco is a hard job, starting with the seedlings in September every year. Tobacco farmers have been busy for half a year before they can get the harvest. Compared with other tobacco leaves, the tobacco leaves used to make zuò cigars are more troublesome, and they have to be planted separately from the time of planting, and the tobacco leaves used as the outer skin need to be covered with a linen cloth and cannot receive direct sunlight, which is called shade planting. The tobacco leaves used as the core of the cigar must have plenty of sunlight, which is called yang planting.

When harvesting tobacco leaves, it is not all light, a bit like when we pick tea leaves, but also from top to bottom, batch by batch, all by hand, and there is no way to use the machine. The top tobacco leaves have the purest aroma, the older they get, the lighter the taste, the more different kinds of tobacco from top to bottom, the Corojo variety has nine layers of tobacco leaves, and the less C-day O11O variety has six layers.

After the tobacco is harvested, it is not enough to roll the cigars, but to bundle them into a handful of five pieces according to the size and type of leaves, and hang them in a large warehouse for air drying, a process that takes about 50 days. After the drying of the tobacco leaves are bundled into a rectangular bag, and then put in the fermentation room, spray water for the first fermentation, when the temperature inside the tobacco leaves is higher than 35 degrees, the workers will move the tobacco leaves to cool down, reciprocating for about 30 days, the first fermentation is completed.

The tobacco leaves that have been fermented for the first time begin to be selected, processed, and graded, and those petioles and thick veins are removed, and then according to the taste and size of the tobacco leaves, they are bundled up, sprayed with tobacco stalk water, and sent to the factory for the second fermentation. This second fermentation is very important, because the temperature control of the secondary fermentation is about 42 degrees, the ammonia and water in the tobacco leaves will take away the nicotine and other impurities in the tobacco, and will eventually fix a certain flavor and body of the tobacco.

After the second fermentation, the tobacco leaves are packed in palm leaves and put in the warehouse for aging, a process that can take as little as one and a half to two years or as many as ten years, before they are sent to the cigar factory and finally transformed into cigar smoke.

Therefore, authentic fermented cigars can be said to be nicotine-free or extremely small in content, and the harm to the human body is also very small. Since the author is a smoker, Hong Tao must also be a smoker, so let me use the mouth of the smoker to give you a brief talk about how to smoke cigars, which is a small benefit for smokers.

The classification of cigars is complex, with lengths and diameters, shapes, and methods. In general, the length of the cigar is expressed in inches, and the diameter is expressed in the unit of ring, for example, 7 is the length of the cigar 7 inches, about 177 millimeters, and this 48 is neither inches nor millimeters, it means 48 times the 1/64 inch, which is about o.75 inches, which is about 19 millimeters.

For our countrymen, it is a bit of a headache to figure out these imperial units, but it doesn't matter, you just need to remember the standard size of the gentleman's type (neta), which is 5.5 inches long and has a ring diameter of 42, which is 117*13 mm. And then based on this, what other small gentleman type, special gentleman type, class gentleman type, Churchill type, beautiful type, Langjun type, rich type, torpedo type, snake type, etc., are nothing more than thicker than the gentleman type, or thinner than the gentleman type.

Generally speaking, Cuban cigars are hand-rolled and are considered high-end cigars, while some women's cigars are thinner and semi-mechanically rolled, which are considered mid-range cigars, while those that are all mechanically rolled are low-grade cigars. There is no dead rule on how thick a cigar you are suitable for, but there is a convention, that is, the older you are, the larger the ring diameter.

Smoking a cigar is a slow process, the thicker the cigar, the richer and more mellow the flavor, so if you want to enjoy it all at once, then you have to spare a longer time, such as an hour or two, and then find a very comfortable environment, and slowly smoke a thick black, which feels a hundred times stronger than smoking a cigarette. Of course, this kind of experience can't be done several times a day, everything has to be moderate, too much and it's not interesting. If you are in a hurry and don't have time to spend it slowly, then you can choose a thinner cigar and experience a different feeling from smoking a cigarette.

In addition, smoking cigars is different from smoking, it has a lot of attention and tools, for example, you have to have a cigar cutter, used to cut the seal of the cigar, sometimes special types of cigars, both ends have to be cut, there is also a cigar case, so that you can travel with the cigar or something, a cigar lighter, also called a blowtorch, with an ordinary lighter or match, lighting the cigar is very laborious and has a peculiar smell, affecting the taste.

To be a little more particular, you should also have a cigar cabinet to store and display your collection of cigars. Then you can put a humidor on the table for easy access and you can also use the guò humidor to moisturize the cigars you just bought.

The cigar cabinet was too big to carry, so Ralph brought a humidor made of wood called cedar, which was not clear what benefits this cedar had for storing cigars. In addition to a humidor, there is also a round hygrometer to monitor the humidity inside the humidor. Generally speaking, humidity below 66% or above 8o% is not suitable for cigar storage, and a good humidor can store the cigars in the box for several years without spoiling.

"Hahaha, Ralph, you have a pretty good memory, yes, you're a reliable person. After counting the goods in the two suitcases, in addition to wine, tea, and cigarettes, Hong Tao also showed two videotapes, not only did there be no cover on the box, but even the cover that was originally attached to the videotape was artificially torn off, and then self-taught words were written on it in English. After seeing this word, Hong Tao understood what was in the two tapes, and he and Ralph really said that.

It's a pity that although there are video recorders and TVs in the store, they are all placed in the beauty hall for customers to watch, even if they are in the office, Hong Tao doesn't dare to look at them, in case Han Xue or Han Yan breaks in, then his reputation is not very good, and it will definitely be even more unbearable. But Hong Tao was not in a hurry to see it, he just asked Ralph so casually, since he really got it, then put it first, and when the first floor and basement are renovated, it is his own space, and he can look at it however he wants, and no one can care about it.

"Oops...... This one tastes good, not so strong, and suits me. With good things, it is certainly not in Hong Tao's character to taste them first, he took out a box of medium-sized cigars called Romeo Juliet from the pile of cigars, took out one, and then picked up a cigar opener.

Cigars are usually closed at one end and open at the other, and when smoking, use scissors to cut off a small piece of the closed section so that you can start smoking. The cut section is called the head, and the other end must be the tail, and the ignition should start from the tail. Of course, there's no law about this, you have to bite your head open with your mouth and then smoke your tail in your mouth, which is the same. (To be continued......)

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