Oliver Leslie said as he walked, "Two, let me show you around the vineyard first." ”

Tony nodded and said, "Okay, I'm sorry for you." ”

When they walked into the vineyards, they could see rows of grape trellises neatly erected on the uneven hills, which looked very beautiful.

Pointing to the vineyards not far away, Oliver Leslie explains: "Our Cirzito winery is mainly planted with Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Grenache, with an average age of 50 to 60 years, real old vines, and the wine is full-bodied, deep red, with luxurious aromas of raspberry and licorice mixed with mint and rich chocolate flavors. ”

After a pause, Oliver Leslie continued: "Our Citsito brand red wines are very popular in the market, exported to six or seven countries such as China, New Zealand, the United States, etc., and the average price per bottle of wine is around fifteen Australian dollars, which is ...... in Australia."

Tony listened very carefully, but Tang Ming was not interested, he walked to the vineyard and looked at it, remembered the layout here, and prepared to follow this layout when he went back to plant grapes.

Then they went to the cellar and wine processing workshop, tasted a few glasses of wine, and left.

Tang Ming and Tony separated from Rodney at the door, got into the car, and Tang Ming asked, "Tony, how is it, do you like this winery?"

Tony shook his head and said: "The grapes grown in the winery are not bad, they are all old vine grapes, some value, but there are no other advantages, seven million Australian dollars is enough to buy a bigger and more valuable winery, this small winery, if it is not in the Barossa Valley, even three or four million is not worth it, but even here, the price is a little expensive, in addition, the area of the winery is too small, I want to buy a bigger winery." ”

"Oh" Tang Ming nodded and asked, "Then where are we going next?"

Tony thought for a moment and said, "Let's go directly to the riverland, the wineries in the riverland are all large, originally I wanted to buy a winery in the Barossa Valley, but now it seems that the winery here is not suitable for me, or the winery in the riverland is more suitable for me." ”

Located in the central and eastern part of South Australia, Riverland produces half of the total grapes in South Australia and a quarter of the national total, making it the largest wine producing region in Australia.

In addition to being produced at local wineries, some of the grape produced here is transported to wineries in the Barossa Valley and the Hunter Valley to make well-known wines.

They went to Riverland in the afternoon and were introduced by a real estate agent to visit two wineries.

In the evening, in the hotel, Tang Ming and Tony sat in the living room, with a lot of information on the coffee table.

Tony didn't want to go any further, so he was ready to choose one of the two wineries, but he was a little hesitant, he didn't know which winery to buy, and wanted to hear Tang Ming's opinion, so he asked: "Tang, do you think it's right for me to buy that winery?"

Tang Ming said with a smile: "Didn't you say that you want to buy a bigger winery, the winery called Duna is good, covering an area of more than 1,500 acres, and the area of the vineyard has reached 1,200 acres, so many grapes, even if they can't be used, they can be sold." ”

"Let me think again. Tony picked up the information about the Duna winery and thought about it.

After a while, Tony said: "This winery is really good, but the price is too high, 32 million Australian dollars, if you add the cost of the winery renovation and the later promotion of the wine, it will also cost tens of millions of Australian dollars, although I have so much cash now, I can't put it all into the winery." ”

Tony paused, thought for a moment, turned his head to look at Tang Ming, and said, "Tang, if that's not the case, let's cooperate, each of them will contribute half of the money, and each will account for fifty percent of the shares, how about it?"

Tang Ming was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Tony to have this proposal, but it was undeniable that he was really moved, thought about it for a while, and said, "Okay, I agreed." ”

"Don, I knew you would say yes. Tony said excitedly: "How about we first contribute 18 million Australian dollars each, buy Duna Winery with 32 million Australian dollars, and use the remaining 4 million Australian dollars as the daily expenses of the winery, how about it?"

Tang Ming said: "Yes, I agree, in addition, since we are ready to buy Duna Winery, we should re-register a brand, anyway, this brand is not worth much." ”

Tony said, "Don, what do you have in mind?"

Tang Ming thought for a while and said, "Let's call it Hongyan Winery." ”

"Red face, red face. Tony repeated two sentences, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "It's a very poetic name, I like this name, so let's call it this name." ”

They discussed until midnight before they went back to their rooms to sleep.

The next morning, he came to the door with a lawyer, negotiated with the owner of Château Duna, and bought Château Duna.

In addition to the basic facilities of the winery, more than 200,000 bottles of wine in the cellar are also owned by them, in addition to the three winemakers and more than 20 workers working in the winery.

There are several small buildings in the winery, in the evening, Tang Ming and Tony picked one for rest, Tang Ming and Tony discussed, Tony decided to stay here for a few days, complete the following work, such as changing the brand logo, hiring a better winemaker, etc.

In a winery, the winemaker plays an important role, and the quality of the wine depends on two aspects, one is the quality of the grape material, and the other is the winemaking technique.

Riverland is a good grape producing area, naturally there is no shortage of good raw materials, and now the most lacking thing is excellent winemakers and good winemaking technology.

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Early in the morning, Tang Ming took a turn in the vineyard and looked at the stout vines, these vines are twenty or thirty years old, although they are not old vine grapes, but the grapes produced are already very good for winemaking, but the winery's brewing technology was too poor in the past, and they did not know how to promote, so they seemed to be nameless, and finally fell to the point of being sold.

Then Tang Ming came to the wine cellar again and saw bottles of wine on the wine shelf.

These wines are both new this year and previously stored, if it is a more famous winery, these wines are a great fortune, but here, these wines are not very valuable, otherwise the previous owner of the winery would not easily give these wines to Tang Ming and Tony as bargaining chips.

Tang Ming took out a few bottles from the wine rack and prepared to take them back to the ranch to taste them for his family.

After eating breakfast in the winery, Tang Ming said goodbye to Tony and drove to the ranch.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, I finally returned to the ranch.

This trip was very interesting, originally he just accompanied Tony to buy a winery and see the world, but he didn't expect to end up buying a winery in partnership with Tony.