Chapter 162: Napa Valley Scenery
What greeted Zhang Bin was an undulating hilly area, like a plain with ups and downs, like a mountain without a peak. [No pop-up novel network]
Although the weather is still relatively cold at this time, and the maximum temperature is less than 10 degrees, the sun at this time looks warmer in the heart.
The early spring sun shines in the Napa Valley, more like a watercolor painting, bright and soft.
There are some hot air balloons flying in the sky, and there are quite a few tourists not far away.
Sun Yang told him that Napa Valley is a very famous tourist destination in San Francisco, and many tourists like to visit here, most of them Chinese and domestic tourists.
The car slowly drove in the direction of Napa Valley, and Zhang Bin called Kerry.
Kerry said he was waiting outside at this time, and Zhang Bin would see him.
Sure enough, as soon as the car drove into the valley entrance, Zhang Bin saw Kerry standing there.
The car stopped, and Kerry volunteered to come up and open the door.
"Zhang, welcome to our holy land, Napa Valley," Kerry said with a smile.
"It's an honor," Zhang Bin said with a smile.
After everyone got out of the car, Zhang Bin asked the driver to go back by himself, and he followed Kerry inside.
Not far away, there are some hot air balloons, and many tourists are waiting to go up and see the scenery of the whole Napa Valley.
"Has Zhang ever sat on this?" The coolie asked with a smile.
Zhang Bin shook his head honestly.
"Then you must try it", Kerry invited, and then walked to the person in charge and asked for a large hot air balloon to carry Zhang Bin and his party.
The person in charge came over and began to explain the precautions to them, and then everyone was ready to go up.
Originally, there were already tourists waiting for this hot air balloon, but when they saw Zhang Bin and them coming in, they went up directly, and they immediately shouted with some dissatisfaction.
But no one dared to really say anything, and when I looked at the attitude of the person in charge, I knew that these people were not small, and at most they were muttering a few words of dissatisfaction.
There were two Asian girls not far away, one of them was Zhang Bin's acquaintance, Pu Caidan, Pu Caidan was also waiting to get on the hot air balloon, and when she saw Zhang Bin and his party, she was suddenly surprised.
"Caidan, what's wrong?" The other girl looked at her in surprise.
"Why is he here?" Pu Caidan's face was puzzled, and she suspected that she had seen it wrong, she knew that Zhang Bin seemed to have only two stores, and at most he had some cooperation with Wang Haijun, but looking at it like this, he seemed to have some connections with the wine investors here.
"You know?" The girl next to Pu Caidan glanced at the hot air balloon that was slowly rising, and asked suspiciously.
"No, it may be a mistake", Pu Caidan smiled and continued to talk about women with her girlfriends.
Zhang Bin was a little nervous, because this was his first time.
Chen Yi and the others surrounded him in the middle, and the balloon slowly rose, and finally stopped at a height of twenty-five meters, and then began to drift sideways.
This height is not low for Zhang Bin.
Looking down from a high place, Zhang Bin's feeling is another matter, the kind of sunshine bathing, looking at the magnificent scenery of the entire Napa Valley, and suddenly there is an urge to roar in his heart.
He asked Zhang Dabiao to stand inside, and he stood on the side.
The scenery underneath was slowly passed, but after observing it, he was surprised to find that in the whole Napa Valley, there were not grapes, but small oak trees.
Zhang Bin suddenly wondered, since the wine industry in Napa Valley is so developed, shouldn't there be more grapes, but he seems to have grapes that only occupy two or three floors here.
Ten minutes later, the hot air balloon slowly landed in a spacious open space, and everyone went down one after another.
"How far is it?" Zhang Bin asked.
"It's just the outer part of the whole Napa Valley, and it's for visitors to see, and the real inner area is not accessible to tourists," Kerry said with a smile.
Outside the clearing, listen to a pickup truck, yes, a small pickup, and a couple of benches in the back.
Kerry jumped up first, stretched out his hand and smiled at Zhang Bin: "I think Zhang will be surprised by the style along the way."
Everyone jumped into the car and sat down on their own stool.
Zhang Bin didn't feel that this treatment was shabby, but felt the sincerity of the master, because they all seemed to understand that what nature gave was what was most precious to them.
The car was moving very slowly, Zhang Bin looked at the small oak trees everywhere and asked, "Why are there so many oak trees here, but there don't seem to be many grapes."
Kerry laughs and explains: "Napa Valley wines are the best in the country, and the estate owners want to produce the best wines, and for the capitalists, there can't be too many good things, and as for the oak trees, it's for wine preservation."
Zhang Bin sighed, feeling that he was so stupid, what else could so many oak trees do, it must be to make barrels.
After driving for a while, the car entered the core area of Napa Valley, and the scenery along the way suddenly made Zhang Bin feel a strong western style, which was really like the kind of beauty brought to him in the movie.
Vines and oak trees are planted on the plains in the distance, and the wide roads are dusty with cars running over them, and one or two tall trees can occasionally be seen on either side of the road.
If a few cowboys appear at this time, Zhang Bin feels perfect.
"Zhang", when Zhang Bin was stunned, Kerry reminded him.
It turned out that the car was right into the Harlae area, where there seemed to be fewer grapes than outside.
Kerry told him that Harlae occupies the most prime location in the entire Napa Valley, with a total of 93 hectares, but the owner of the estate only spends a tenth of it growing grapes.
The car came to a stop outside the manor, and Zhang Bin saw an old man waiting there with a few people, in good spirits.
Seeing Zhang Bin get out of the car, he took the initiative to step forward and take a few steps.
Zhang Bin stepped forward a few steps and shook hands with the other party under Kerry's introduction.
"This is Mr. Harlan, the owner of Harlae," Kerry explains.
"Zhang Bin, it's an honor to meet you, take the liberty to visit, and I hope Mr. Harlan won't be surprised," Zhang Bin said with a smile. (Replace it with Harran below)
Harlan nodded with a smile and said, "It is an honor for our winery to be able to come, and I hope my reception will not surprise you."
"I think it's definitely a pleasant experience," Zhang Bin says with a smile.
Harlan asked all the people below to leave, and instructed the housekeeper to prepare a luncheon, and he himself took Zhang Bin to the manor.
Harlan was very polite, so polite that Zhang Bin was a little surprised.
However, Harlan is very confident in his manor.
He took Zhang Bin to the vineyard planting area, but now the grapes were just ready to bear, and there was no way for Zhang Bin to taste them.
"Zhang will come back in June and try our grapes," Harlan invited with a smile.
"If I had the chance, I don't think I would have missed it," Zhang Bin replied.
After walking for a while, the two came to a balcony where they could see a large manor below.
(Plus more to tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, some information about Harlan himself Lao Li has not been found, so the other party does not know how old he is, he can only write an approximate age, if there are friends who understand, you can tell Lao Li)