Section 12: Wine Specialty Stores [Seeking Collection]
Helping Connor feed the beef cattle some forage, Ye Mo experienced the hard work of working on the ranch. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Beef cattle that are seven or eight months old and in the fattening period are the most difficult to take care of, feeding them many times a day and keeping the barn dry and clean......
Now the twenty cows are fine, and when all the hundred are delivered, Connor and the others will have to be busy. However, according to Connor, under normal circumstances, a hundred cattle in the fattening period can be taken care of by one person. Now that the ranch has just opened, everyone is in a hurry, and it will be good to wait for the adaptation.
Towards noon, thirty more Angus cattle had not yet been fattened.
The cattle were very honest and drove them to the barn and ate the fodder quietly. Connor checked their health one by one and made sure there was no problem before Ye Mo signed the harvest list......
100 cows, an average of $1,800 a head. After fattening, whether it is a loss or a profit after slaughter depends on the quality of the beef. The quality of the beef is determined by the age of the marbled Wagyu cattle......
Buying adult cattle to fatten up on their own is risky, and it can be a big profit or a loss. Generally speaking, the more high-quality beef produced, the more profitable, and the less high-quality beef, the loss.
"Boss, the pastoral construction will be completed in half a month. I think we will have to recruit people at that time, can we ......?"
"Huh?"
Connor was a little embarrassed and said with an unspeakable expression, "I want to recruit my wife." She used to shear sheep and knew how to herd herd......"
Connor and the others have stayed at the ranch since they arrived, and they have only been home twice in a month. Ye Mo is not a cold-blooded and ruthless person, although he knew that the two of them working together would cause some small contradictions, but he still agreed: "There is no problem." Tony and Wells and their wives are also idle at home, and they can come together if they want. ā
"Thank you, boss."
Ye Mo smiled.
Working on a ranch is really not easy, and the pay is low. If you don't really like it or can't find another way to make a living, few people want to become cowboys: "Work hard, and when the ranch can slaughter your own special beef, I'll give you twenty Angus cows to be your property." ā
The construction of the cottage is in full swing, and it is all made of wooden piles and insulated tiles, and the construction speed is very fast. In half a month at most, the construction of the cottage will be completed......
Kelvin rode his horse to the meadow for a walk, answered a phone call and rushed back: "Ye, the score of Valley Wine has come down, it is the authoritative California wine magazine RP scoring system, and it has received a high score of 98 points. ā
On the RP scale, a score of 96 to 100 is considered a top wine. A score of 98 represents an excellent wine with a strong personality and a rich and complex taste. This score is marked by its high price, its scarcity and the potential for appreciation in value.
With this rating, there is no problem with a two-thirds increase in the price of Valle Cabernet Sauvignon. If you want to sell at a higher price, you have to do it.
At noon, Ye Mo invited Kelvin to his house for lunch.
Kelvin is an old man, and the food he cooks is quite standard, so Ye Mo let go of the kitchen, went to the wine cellar by himself, and brought a bottle of fruity wine.
Usually fruity wines are not meant to last long, but the fruity wines made on the valley farms are just as dry red and can be aged. The aging period can even reach more than 10 years......
The wine cellar is located at the back of the villa, and the limestone of the back mountain is used to create a heated cave suitable for storing wine. The oldest fruity wine was bottled in 2004, 12 years from now, with only 26 left. Ye Mo mentioned a fruity wine that was only on display last year, just such a 750ml fruity wine, which was sold for $1,100 at the Valley Ranch and even more expensive on the black market.
Wines that age well contain tannins, which have antioxidant properties that support the wine's ageing.
Chardonnay makes fruity wines that can age for more than 10 years, also contain tannins, and have a decanting process. Tannins can have a protective effect on a person's blood vessels, preventing arteriosclerosis, while also controlling cholesterol and other benefits.
Valley wines can quickly become famous and loved by the rich, which is also the real benefit of this wine, which can give people a visible effect.
The wine woke up, like a beauty who woke up from a deep sleep. The soft sunlight is refracted to give it a pink color.
Kelvin brought the steak, and the two of them ate it.
"Ye, I'm planning to invest in a high-end wine specialty store in Santa Barbara, are I interested in participating in a share?" Kelvin put down the knife in his hand and said.
"I don't have any money!"
"I don't want you to invest a penny, I need a monopoly on Valley wines. The price of the valley wine is set by me, and 95% of the selling price is the purchase price of the valley wine. How about I just get five percent of the profit? ā
"I'll have to think about it." Ye Mo groaned.
"The store gives you ten percent of the shares!"
"You shouldn't have a lot of high-end wines, right?" Ye Mo asked.
"I'm only going to sell wines with an overall rating of 95 or higher, and there aren't many of them, but they still do. When the store first opened, I needed Valley Wines to attract a regular clientele. ā
"Fifteen percent of the dry shares. If it works, I'll give it to you, and if it doesn't, I'll pull it to ......."
Kelvin said with a smile on his face: "A word is a certainty." I've been looking for someone to decorate the store these days. Rest assured, I'll make the valley wines famous all over the world and let the so-called historic wineries of France and Napa Valley know what makes a top wine. ā
"Listening to your tone, it seems that you have a grudge against French wineries and historic wineries in Napa Valley." Ye Mo lifted it, touched Kelvin and asked.
"I was born into a family of winemakers, and my father was a winemaker at Napa Valley Deer Leap Cellars...... Forget it, sad past! Convin took a sip of his glass and said, "I can't wait to start a new life." ā
"Hey, wait, you're going to pay my 500,000 deposit in advance. Otherwise, my valley ranch would not be able to operate. Ye Mo smiled wryly.
Kelvin is an old guy with money, a salary of $1.3 million a year, and he is alone and doesn't have much to spend. All the money is used to invest in stocks, real estate. For more than ten years, don't look at him as a hanger, but he is an invisible rich man, with a special financial advisor, and a net worth of 20 million must be there.
"No problem, I'll write you a check."
After eating, Ye Mo picked up a check for one million given by Kelvin, and was depressed for a long time.
The problem of funding for the ranch has been solved. Ye Mo let go of a piece of his heart.
The rest of the time Kelvin was busy with his wine shop, on the port shopping street in Santa Barbara. There is not a single one in a huge ranch to talk to. Ye Mo, who was idle and bored, took the check given by Kelvin to the city, exchanged the check, and bought three puppies by the way.
One husky, two German Shepherds. Xiao Erha is in a very good spirit, with a pair of light brown bright eyes, with his black panda eyes, he looks at the fierce and arrogant temperament, and he is really cute and cute.
This pair of German shepherds, a male and a female, all have their own pedigree proof, and are purebred German Shepherds, also known as German wolfdogs. The Shepherd Dog was given to Connor to be trained to help herd the sheep.