Looking at Xiao Ping's smile, Simon had a very strange feeling, as if this Chinese thought that he had won the battle, which also made him feel an ominous premonition in his heart.

But Simon quickly shoved the ridiculous idea out of his mind. A Chinese who has given a failing winery a new lease of life in just two years and produced a new wine of better quality than Château Lafite? This is a big joke, and no sane person would believe that such a thing could happen!

This thought made Simon's heart reinforced, and he looked at Xiao Ping and sneered: "Mr. Xiao, I admit that the Holy Pot brand agricultural products are indeed very good, but growing vegetables and making wine are two completely different professions, you must not be too self-righteous." A farmer is a farmer, so don't be whimsical about getting a foot in the brewing business!"

Representatives of several other major wineries also echoed Simon, saying that Xiao Ping's desire to enter the winemaking industry is completely beyond his means. The farmer also wants to make good wine, which is simply a fool's dream.

Xiao Ping had only one answer to the cynicism of these guys, he slowly wrote a check for half a million euros, and then said to Bernard: "Mr. Bernard, are you willing to be a witness to this bet?"

Bernard hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded, "I do!"

"Great. Xiao Ping smiled and handed the check to Bernard and said: "Then please help keep this check first, since it is a bet, it must be like a bet, I am not like some people, I look like I want to cheat!"

Although he knew that Xiao Ping was deliberately provoking himself, it also made Simon feel unbearable. Although with his current financial situation, it is difficult to come up with half a million euros in cash at once. But Simon, who didn't want to be deflated in front of Xiao Ping, gritted his teeth and wrote the figure of 500,000 euros on the check.

Simon knew in his heart that he didn't have that much money in his private account. However, in his opinion, this is a bet that he will definitely not lose. So writing such a blank check is not a big deal. Anyway, as long as the results of the tasting come out, I can get the check back. Who knows when the time comes: This is a blank check?

With absolute trust in Château Lafite, Simon made this risky decision. However, he will soon regret this decision, and his good personal credit will be hit hard.

Although the check was only two thin sheets of paper, Bernard still felt heavy in his hand. After all, these two pieces of paper represent a million euros, which is not a small amount even for a winery owner like Bernard.

In fact, Bernard's winery did not make such a high profit in a year, and Xiao Ping and Simon took so much money out just to bet. Thinking of this, Bernard couldn't help but sigh secretly, the gap between this person and people is huge!

"Mr. Bernard, you'd better put these two checks away first. "Seeing that Bernard was still in a daze. Hao Sue kindly reminded him: "If it is broken or lost, it will be troublesome!"

"Ahh

Not long after Bernard received the check, the staff informed everyone that this year's new wine tasting had officially begun. As one of the most produced wines made from grapes, the first thing to taste on the first day was red wine.

Xiao Ping and Hao Sue followed everyone to a large hall. A long table was placed around the hall, and the main character of the tasting was this year's new wine.

To be fair. All the wines are in the same bottle, and there is no information about the winery on the bottle, only the number issued by the tasting committee.

Guests at the tasting were free to taste the wines and then mark and sign their names on the cards in front of the bottles. After the tasting. The organizers will compile all the scores and combine them with the opinions of more than a dozen experts to select the top 10 best new wines of the year.

Xiao Ping is the same as everyone else. Go around tasting red wine and write the score on a paper card in front of the bottle. It didn't take long for him to taste more than a dozen fine wines. I just think that all of these wines have their own characteristics, even according to the strictest standards. It's also a very good red wine.

In fact, there are more than 10 million wineries in the world, but there are only more than 300 wineries that come to participate in this tasting. The reason why these more than 300 wineries came to participate in this tasting was naturally because they were very confident in their home-brewed wines, so it was normal for Xiao Ping to feel that all the red wines he tasted were good.

More than 300 wineries took part in the tastings, which means that at least the same number of people were tasting the wines. Each winery only prepares one or two cases of red wine, and there is no way for so many people to taste it. However, relatively speaking, the number of people who taste the products of any one winery is basically the same, so the score is relatively fair.

The tasting began in the early afternoon and lasted for several hours, by the end of which it was already late afternoon. The red wine brought by each winery was drunk, and many people turned red, and they knew that they had drunk a lot of it.

The staff is carefully collecting all the score cards together and preparing to count the ratings of the crowd. It will take at least two days to bear fruit, and by then, combined with the opinions of a dozen master sommesters, you will be able to know the quality of this year's new wines.

The next two days were attended by white wines, champagne and brandy and other wines, which were not made at the Holy Pot Winery, so Xiao Ping did not join in the excitement. However, Hao Suo, who loves wine, did not fall behind in a tasting meeting, and every time he went away happily and returned satisfied.

Although Hao Sue explained to Xiao Ping that he did this to learn as much as possible about various types of wine, which would be very beneficial for making red wine in the future. However, in Xiao Ping's opinion, this is just an excuse for Hao Chau to want to drink more good wine.

Anyway, whatever the reason, Hao Chau drank wine for three days in a row anyway, and the fourth day was the day when the red wine scores were announced.

On this day, Xiao Ping got up early in the morning and came to the scene of the tasting with Hao Suo. Although the two of them had arrived early enough, many of them had already arrived. It seems that everyone attaches great importance to today's rating, otherwise it wouldn't all look like a big enemy.

Not long after Xiao Ping arrived, Simon and several people from the High Wine Alliance also hurried in. They are more confident in their winery, so they don't want to be as nervous as others and seem more relaxed.

Simon's gaze swept through the crowd, quickly locking on Xiao Ping and Hao Chau. He took those fox friends and dog friends to squeeze in front of Xiao Ping, and asked triumphantly: "Chinese, are you ready to lose to me?"

Xiao Ping looked at this arrogant guy and said to him calmly: "It's not up to you to win or lose, what's the use of you yelling here? After the final result comes out, you are still so proud that you really have the ability!"

"You ......" was squeezed by Xiao Ping's words and had nothing to say, Simon glared at him angrily, and walked away with his fox friends.

"Simon, don't take that Chinese to heart. A guy with the best relationship with Simon was still persuading him: "The result will be announced later, that Chinese will lose! This time he will not only lose face greatly, but also lose a lot of money, but it is really enough for this guy!"

"Hmph!" these words finally made Simon's mood feel better, and he glanced at Xiao Ping hatefully and said, "I hope this lesson can make Hao Sue understand that he is not a good winemaker at all, and he will never appear here in the future!"

Simon deliberately said this sentence so loudly that even Xiao Ping and Hao Chau over there heard it. Xiao Ping glanced at Simon who was full of anger, and couldn't help but whisper to Hao Chau: "I said Hao Chau, that Simon Lafite seems to be very prejudiced against you, has there ever been any conflict between you?"

"There is no grudge between me and him. "I just had some unpleasant problems with Château Lafite, about ten years ago, they asked me to be the chief winemaker for several years, but I refused. ”

Although Hao Chau said it lightly, Xiao Ping couldn't help but rejoice in his heart: "I went there, but I didn't expect to pick up a talent in the middle of the day! Even Château Lafite has to hire someone to be the chief winemaker, and now he is actually working for his buddy, which is really lucky!"

Speaking in his heart, Xiao Ping really didn't expect that Hao Suo, a French old man who was not good-looking, was still a master of winemaking, and his life was really full of surprises.

At the same time, Xiao Ping finally understood, it turned out that it was because Hao Chau refused the invitation of Château Lafite, and the director Simon Lafite held a grudge against him, no wonder this guy made sarcastic remarks to him as soon as he saw Hao Chau.

Just when Xiao Ping secretly sighed, a person in charge of the tasting came to everyone and said loudly: "Everyone, now we will start announcing the ratings of this year's new red wines." ”

Hearing this, everyone fell silent and nervously waited for the person in charge to announce the score. As is customary in previous years, the person in charge would report the names of the three wineries with the highest scores, and then publish the scores of all the wineries.

Under the gaze of everyone, the person in charge cleared his throat and said loudly: "The third place in the score of new red wine this year is...... Vegala winery in Australia!"

Australia's wineries have been growing rapidly lately, and it wasn't a surprise that they finished third, and it didn't cause much of a stir.

The person in charge then announced: "Second place goes to the prestigious Château Lafite!"

This result was also expected by everyone, so everyone did not say anything, quietly waiting to hear who the first place was.

The person in charge did not disappoint everyone, and soon announced loudly: "The highest score this year is ...... The Holy Pot Winery that participated in the tasting for the first time!" (To be continued......)