I didn't expect Pierre to say this, Xiao Ping asked him in surprise: "What, it's too expensive?"

"It's so cheap!" "You don't know it, the whole Parisian coffee world is talking about Holy Pot coffee, and everybody thinks it's so good that it's sold for eighty-five dollars a cup." I think even if we set the price higher, it will sell out quickly. ”

Xiao Ping has always trusted Pierre's ability to grasp the market, and shrugged his shoulders indifferently and said: "You can decide this matter yourself, the coffee beans will be shipped in the near future, so you can wait patiently for the receipt." ”

"No problem. Pierre replied dryly, and then asked Xiao Ping: "By the way, Hao Chau of the winery wants me to tell you that the bet is that they have lost, and the grapes are growing very well, and they have begun to bear fruit." He also wants to make sure, are you going to use this year's grapes to make wine on a large scale?"

Haucer's fears are not unfounded, as the winery grows "new grape varieties" and it is risky to make wine on a large scale without determining its quality. Although the grapes and barrels are ready-made, there is also a cost to the winemaking process. If it turns out that these grapes are not suitable for winemaking, the winery will lose money.

However, Xiao Ping was very confident in the role of the Demon Refining Pot, and he didn't have any worries about Hao Sue, so he said without thinking: "Of course, let Hao Chau make all the grapes into wine, and treat them like ripe grape varieties." ”

Pierre also knew that his boss had two brushes when it came to cultivating crops, and he was not surprised by his decision, so he immediately nodded, "Okay." That's what I said to Haucer. ”

Xiao Ping smiled and said: "You let him rest assured that he will make wine, and he will not be blamed if he loses it." ”

Today, Pierre is the manager of the French branch. After finishing finishing business, he didn't have time to chat with Xiao Ping, and soon hung up the phone.

I heard the Frenchman mention the winery's problems on the phone. reminded Xiao Ping of the grapes planted in the demon refining pot. There is abundant spiritual energy in the demon refining pot, and those dozens of grapes grow in it, both in terms of growth speed and ripening date, which are better than the grapes in the winery.

A few days ago, when Xiao Ping was harvesting herbs in the Baicao Garden and preparing raw materials for the oral liquid factory, he found that the grapes on the hillside had already borne a lot of fruits. Many of the grapes have already begun to turn red and are beginning to show signs of ripening. However, in the next few days, he was busy helping Li Wanqing prepare for the fundraising party, so he didn't have time to enter the alchemy pot to check the situation of the grapes. I believe that after a few days, the grapes should be about to ripen.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ping decided to enter the demon refining pot to see the situation. Anyway, in such a high-end hotel, no one will break into the room without the permission of the guests. Xiao Ping can rest assured that he is busy in the demon refining pot. He hung a "Do Not Disturb" sign at the door, and then entered the demon refining pot.

After the familiar feeling of vertigo, Xiao Ping was already beside the spring. After many evolutions, the scale of the spring has also increased considerably, and now the diameter of the spring is about ten meters, and several clear streams of spring water emerge from the bottom of the spring, gushing and spreading to the edge of the spring, and then rushing along the stream to the lake downstream of the spring, and finally flowing into the distant ocean through the large river. Xiao Ping has long been accustomed to the vision in front of him. He did not stop at the spring, but walked straight to the vine on the hillside.

The plants in the Demon Refining Cauldron all grow very fast. Although it has only been planted for about a year, the vines on the hillside are about the thickness of a wrist, and the branches and leaves of dozens of grape trees are knotted together. The grape trellis that Xiao Ping had taken the time to build before had been completely covered.

Under the leafy vines, there are clusters of grapes that have turned purple. Blessed with the abundant spiritual energy in the demon refining pot, the grapes are much larger than ordinary Cabernet Sauvignon. Most of the grapes are almost the size of pigeon eggs. The heavy weight crushed the grape branches downward. Although it was only the first year of fruiting, the number of grapes was very high. Bunches of large, purple grapes hang from under the trellises. People can't help but rejoice when they see it.

Xiao Ping, who came under the grape trellis, looked at the harvest grapes with satisfaction, and muttered to himself with satisfaction: "I haven't come to see it for a few days." It's almost cooked. ”

Xiao Ping looked around under the grape trellis, and picked a bunch of ripe grapes to taste how it tasted. When the first grape cracked in his mouth, the grape juice immediately poured out, and the sweet and delicious grape fruit aroma instantly filled the whole mouth.

Xiao Ping is an adult man, and fruit is not very attractive to him. But even so, this delicious grape still made Xiao Ping involuntarily squint his eyes, and sincerely admired: "Hmm...... It tastes so good!"

The quality of the fruits grown in the Demon Refining Pot must be superb, which Xiao Ping had long expected, so this extremely delicious grape did not surprise him much. After eating up the bunch of grapes in his hand, Xiao Ping began to work. He cut the bunches of grapes with the scissors he had brought into the pot, and then carefully placed them in the large basket that had been prepared in advance.

In fact, Xiao Ping can also pick grapes with his mind, just like picking crocus, and let the ripe fruit leave the vine on its own, which can save a lot of effort. However, these grapes are large, thin-skinned, and watery, and Xiao Ping is worried that many of them will be broken by doing so. In order to avoid unnecessary waste, we can only spend more time and effort.

Fortunately, for Xiao Ping, grape picking is not a laborious task. He moved quickly, and it didn't take long to pick most of the grapes, filling several large baskets.

These baskets are full of grapes, all of which weigh more than 100 catties, and it is very difficult for ordinary people to carry a basket. But this weight was nothing to Xiao Ping, and he easily carried two baskets of grapes to the spring at the same time, and then went back to bring more grapes. After a few back and forth, all the grapes were transferred here.

Now that the grapes are available, it's time to start the winemaking process. Xiao Ping had also done some homework in advance, and had asked Hao Sue a lot of questions about winemaking, and now he can just do it.

The first thing to do is to remove the stems of the grapes, which contain a lot of tannic acid that can spoil the flavor of the final product. In the winery, this is done by machine, but at the moment it is only done by hand. Fortunately, the number of grapes is not very large, and it is not a very difficult task for Xiao Ping.

Xiao Ping put the grapes with the stems removed into another large basket, and when they had accumulated a certain amount, they were poured into a large clean pot. Once the number of grapes in the pot has reached a certain level, the next step is to extract the juice. This step involves breaking up the whole grapes and mixing the juice with the skin and pulp, so that the fermentation process can begin, resulting in a fine red wine.

In wineries that are engaged in mass production, this step is of course also carried out by machines. However, there are no such conditions in the demon refining pot, and Xiao Ping can only find another way.

In fact, in the old European vineyards, the traditional method of juice extraction was to have people step on the grapes in large pots with bare feet. Just step back and forth a few times to break all the grapes. Of course, it is traditionally the best people to step on grapes by young girls, and it is said that only grapes that are stepped on by young girls can make the best red wine.

Xiao Ping seriously suspected that this was just a beautiful legend, just as the legend said that the best Cuban cigars were made on the thighs of virgins. It seems that as long as everything is paired with a beautiful girl, it can always be a little higher.

Of course, Xiao Ping also understands this. Speaking from the heart, if someone told Xiao Ping that a certain kind of red wine was made from grape juice stepped on by a beautiful girl, he would definitely not have any psychological obstacles when he tasted it. But if someone poured Xiao Ping a glass of red wine and told him that the grapes of this red wine had been stepped on by some uncle, he would definitely put the wine glass directly on the other party's head.

So if there is a confidante present at this time, Xiao Ping has no objection to her stepping on the bucket for a while. Watching the white calves of a beautiful woman stir in the purple grape juice may be a lot of fun. However, at this time, Xiao Ping was present, and he decided to change the tradition of stepping on grapes barefoot. Even if the person who stepped on the grapes was Xiao Ping himself, he would not be interested in tasting the wine he made.

In fact, Xiao Ping had already considered this problem, so when he was still in France, he asked the cooper to use the extra oak to help him build a wooden rake specially used to crush grapes, which can now come in handy.

Xiao Ping crushed all the grapes in the large pot with a wooden rake, and then poured all the grape juice mixture into the oak barrels used to make wine. These barrels are made from oak trees grown in the cauldron and are made by famous French cooperages. Xiao Ping also has high expectations for these barrels, hoping that they will add more attractive flavors to the red wines.

After repeating the same process several times, the two barrels were finally filled. Xiao Ping took the matching lid and closed the barrel, and couldn't help but secretly praise the skill of the barrel maker in his heart. The lid and barrel are tightly fitted, and no other thing is needed to maintain a good seal, which is the best way to make sake in this condition.

The current task is to ferment the must, together with the flesh and skins, in oak barrels, and after a certain period of time, filter out the dregs and let the remaining juice undergo a second fermentation, which will eventually lead to a unique red wine.

It was a lot of work to fill the two oak barrels, and when Xiao Ping finished all the work and left the demon refining pot, it was already dark outside. He left the room and drove away from Shencheng, but he did not go back to Su City directly, but went to the provincial capital first. (To be continued......)