It has been a few months since 'Xiao Family Private Restaurant' was listed in the 'Michelin Red Guide' and became one of the three-star restaurants in the Big 6.

Now, including Xiao Qiang, who is most familiar with Pierre, he doesn't know that this big foreigner who is eating and drinking in front of him will bring great help to the Xiao family and Ginkgo Village in the future.

Since the last time the two of them slept at the campsite of the ranch, the relationship between the two has become a lot closer, and Pierre has always been spending in restaurants these days, which has invisibly made his relationship with the Xiao family even further.

Therefore, today Xiao's farm picked the first batch of wine grapes, and Pierre was also invited to visit, and followed Xiao Qiang and others into the vineyard of Xiao's farm.

Prior to this, Pierre was skeptical that the Xiao family farm could cultivate and grow wine grapes suitable for winemaking.

In Pierre's view, wine grapes are a technical variety, and only those vineyards with sufficient experience can grow amazing wine grapes. In addition, winemaking is an empirical process that requires years of trial and error by the winemaker to produce a top-quality wine that will appeal to the body and mind.

In Europe, top winemakers earn well, even more than Pierre as an architect, and are generally respected by all classes.

The Shaw family farm had only been established for a year, and no one had ever set foot in the field of wine grapes before that, so Pierre was not optimistic about the nearly 4oo acres of vineyards.

However, in the past few days, Pierre's view has been shaken.

Without him, he constantly tasted the food cooked with various top ingredients of the Xiao Family Farm, which made Pierre look at the Xiao Family Farm differently. In Pierre's cognition. I have never seen a farm that can grow so many varieties of top-quality ingredients.

Since the Xiao family farm already has such a magical table, it seems that it is not a surprising thing to cultivate high-quality wine grapes.

Therefore, early in the morning. Pierre followed Xiao Qiang and the others into the Xiao family farm.

Along the way, Pierre's late autumn temperatures did not bring much gloom to the farm, the meadows were still verdant, and the orchard still had not lost all its leaves. A large number of poultry roam freely in the orchard, and all kinds of calls come and go, full of vitality

Pierre saw the red and yellow apples in the apple orchard that were shining in the sun. They are like lanterns, attracting people's attention. According to Xiao Qiang, the apple orchard of Xiaojia Farm is currently planted with varieties including Best Red Fuji, Marshal Huang, Jonakin and so on, which is about to usher in a bumper harvest.

In the gap between each orchard, rows of ravines full of strawberries crisscross the strawberry fields, which are the strawberry fields of the Xiao family's farm. It is also an important source of income for the farm at present.

Compared with other fruits, which need to ripen once a year, strawberries with a very short ripening period have become an important product that Xiaojia Farm can provide to the outside world every month. Now, Xiaojia Farm has 5oo acres of strawberries entering the ripening stage every month, and can provide an average of 6oo tons of fresh strawberry fruits.

Based on the average batch price of 15 yuan/kg of high-end strawberries in Xiaojia Farm, these strawberry fields can provide nearly 10 million yuan of income for the farm every month.

And that's not all, these strawberries are produced in a steady stream. Let the fame of Xiaojia Farm rise in the fruit market in southern Yunnan. Now, the top dealers in the fruit markets of various cities in southern Yunnan will be a little outdated if they can't get the fruits from Xiao's farm.

In southern Yunnan, the products of Xiaojia Farm have become synonymous with high-end fruits!

Now, dozens of workers are picking fresh strawberries in the strawberry field, and fruit dealers from all over the country are waiting for them, packing and weighing them and shipping them immediately.

Since all kinds of ingredients and fruits in Xiao's farm are in short supply, the farm never has to worry about transportation, just handle the production of the farm. This also allows Xiao Family Farm to focus on its core business. The power will not be dispersed!

The busy scene of picking made Pierre feel a sense of harvest joy in his face!

After walking through most of the farm and seeing the production base of various poultry and aquatic products, Pierre followed Xiao Qiang to the vineyard deep in the farm.

The vineyard is located on a sunny slope, which is the area that receives the longest amount of sunshine in the entire farm, which is ideal for the growth of wine grapes. In order to be able to better manage this vineyard. The Xiao family farm has invested heavily in a fully automatic irrigation system controlled by a computer system to ensure that these grapes, which like to dry and need a lot of water, can thrive.

And Xiao Feng is also very concerned about this vineyard, he comes here every now and then to inspect, and every day he puts a lot of space into the water cellar, so that these grapes that have only been planted for less than a year look not much different from some long-standing vines.

Today, the yield of wine grapes in the first year can basically reach more than one ton, although there is still a large gap with the peak of several tons, but this has created a miracle.

When Pierre followed Xiao Qiang to the vineyard, the workers were already picking grapes, and the grapes were piled up in the open space on the edge of the vineyard, like a hill!

In Pierre's opinion, these grapes sell very well, not only because each grape is uniform in size, but also because they all emit a luster that is characteristic of the top grapes themselves.

In general, wine grapes need to be harvested before frost falls, so that the quality of the grapes can be maintained to the maximum and better wines can be made.

However, according to Xiao Qiang, due to the low temperature in northwest Yunnan and the large temperature difference between day and night, the growth length of these grapes is much slower than that in the plains, and the frost falls for nearly a month before entering the ripening period.

However, the frost did not destroy the quality of these wine grapes, and now Pierre can only wait and see what the grapes taste like after the frost has fallen.

In the open space of the vineyard, a housewife from Ginkgo Village is holding a bamboo knife made of bamboo to remove the bad fruit and excess branches and leaves from the grape bunches before moving on to the next step.

Pierre's eyes are sharp-eyed, and now in the whole processing process, the Xiao family farm has deliberately avoided the use of metal products, not only the cutting uses bamboo knives, but also the utensils that are carried and held are also made of bamboo.

Pierre's family also owned a small wine estate in France, and he was quite aware of some of the taboos of winemaking, such as the fact that it was impossible to avoid the influence of iron on the wine during the winemaking process.

From this point of view, the Xiao family farm makes wine, not on a whim, but fully prepared!

The cleaned grapes are not cleaned like ordinary fruits, they are poured directly into huge wooden barrels, and some able-bodied villagers are smashing the grapes with huge pestles!

Completely different from the now popular machine qì mashing process, Xiao Family Farm adopts the most primitive method, which seems inefficient and not good, but it can make wine with soul.

Just the two processes of cleaning and mashing have raised Pierre's respect for the Xiao family farm by several notches.

In the eyes of the romantic French, only by adhering to ancient methods can we make top-quality wines.

Regardless of whether the Xiao Family Farm can make good wines, the quality of these wine grapes and the process that follows the ancient method are enough to make Pierre look up to the Xiao Family Farm!

After hearing that this method was implemented after Xiao Feng's insistence, Pierre's face showed an unsurprising reaction, thinking that only someone with depth like Xiao Feng would have such persistence.

After the grapes were evenly mashed, they were placed in oak barrels that had already been prepared next to it, which were also an eye-opener for Pierre.

At present, when many wine estates and wine production enterprises began to use stainless steel wine barrels, Xiaojia Farm insisted on using handmade oak barrels for storage and fermentation vessels, which can only be said that Xiaojia Farm has the intention to make its own style in this industry.

In general, a 200-litre handmade oak barrel costs 3-5 times more than a stainless steel barrel, and they take longer to make a complex process.

Pierre noticed that the casks were all made of the finest oak and that the cooperage's craftsmanship was so high that they didn't use any adhesive at all.

At this time, Pierre suddenly had more confidence in the wines of the Xiao family farm!

The top-quality wine grapes, the traditional zuò making process, the high-end handmade oak barrels, and the strict requirements for each process even made Pierre feel a little overwhelmed. All these factors combine to create a staggering top wine!

I have to say that the various foods and wines in the past few days have made Pierre have a lot of inexplicable confidence in Xiaojia Farm, and he would actually think that a world-class wine would be born in a wine desert like Northwest Yunnan!

In the next two weeks, hundreds of workers will pick the grapes one by one, process them under the guidance of technicians, put them into oak barrels, and then send them to the cellars behind Xiaojia for storage.

During the tour, Pierre kept a camera in his hand recording what he saw and heard, and he hoped that when the wine became a sensation in the world, these materials would provide it with the most original record.

Pierre is looking forward to the next year's wine tasting time!

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