() In foreign countries, Ye Mo is also used to not talking about business when eating.

In addition to fish, there are other foods for dinner, which takes into account everyone's tastes. Talking about some light-hearted daily anecdotes, more focused on the food in front of them.

Except for Ye Mo and Mike, who can use chopsticks, everyone else has knives and forks, and in the face of the whole fish, they all cut a large piece and put it on their plates, and then slowly pick and thorn. Let's follow the customs, they don't like to eat 'big pot dishes', and Ye Mo also cut a piece of fish meat and put it on the plate.

Sweet and sour crucian carp, braised silver carp, homemade carp, and a native fish from the United States, the flat body is also tender, making a steamed fish.

The cradle of the Kars Lake is deep in the Vaka Mountains, and the lake water is cold. Because it is a natural spring lake and the water is cold and unpolluted, the fish here are still delicious even when they grow to a large size.

"I didn't expect the meat of freshwater fish to be so delicious." Angela praised.

"It's okay." Mike took a sip of juice and continued, "If you want to talk about fish, it's still freshwater fish." Especially the hot pot fish, that's what is called delicious. Ye Mo and I used to go out to the Marney Lake to fish in the Central Valley every month during the holidays, and we would fish for an afternoon. When I came back, I made hot pot fish, and the taste was delicious. It's so nostalgic. ”

Ye Mo used chopsticks to help Ellie pick out the fish bones, sent them over, and said, "The hot pot fish should be eaten in winter, and it should be served with beer......"

At the end of dinner, Vivien and Jolie came over to say goodbye to Ellie: "It's late, we have to go back to San Francisco." ”

"Can't you stay here for two more days? I'm bored by myself. ”

Ellie looked at Ye Mo, while Vivien and Julie looked at Maddie and Weiss.

"There are a lot of rooms at home, if you want to play in the manor for a few more days, I welcome them with both hands." Ye Mo didn't want to see Ellie disappointed, so he invited.

Maddie and Weiss are both students, and they have already skipped class, and now they are not afraid to skip class for two more days: "I don't care. ”

"I'm going to call my mom."

Vivien called, apologetic.

Ellie thought that Vivian's mother disagreed, and asked, "What's the matter, isn't Auntie at ease?" Do you want me to call my aunt? ”

"Nope. I told my mom that Julie and I were playing at your boyfriend's place. My mom was happy and said she had time to meet him. Vivian lowered her head, didn't dare to look at Ye Mo, and said, "My mother and Ellie's mother are very good friends. So, my mom knows, and Ellie's mom knows. ”

"This ......," Ye Mo muttered before he was mentally prepared. But seeing Ellie looking at herself expectantly, she could only harden her head and said, "See my mother-in-law, I'm fine." ”

I heard Ellie say that her mother was unmarried and had children, and she was still very young, less than forty years old, and she was a white-collar beauty who knew how to dress up. Thinking of her age, would her mom accept herself being with Ellie?

Mike glanced back at Ye Mo, then at Ellie, and smiled: "I haven't congratulated you yet, when did you come together?" ”

"It's been a long time." Ye Mo smiled and said, "Let's go, go to the ancient castle." We will take you on a tour of the castle's wine cellar, which is not open to the public. ”

The cellar for the reserve of wines is located below the castle building, with a total of three floors, the deepest of which is 30 meters above the ground. It can store nearly 100,000 wines.

The underground cellar is like a labyrinth tunnel, twisting and turning, with wine shelves on both sides, densely stacked with wines.

The tunnel corridor on the first level of the cellar is narrow, and there are many oak barrels in the middle. The wines of 2014 and 2015 are produced in Grand Cru and are not as good as those of 2013 due to the climate, and one to two years of cellaring in oak barrels is already extreme. As the 2013 bottling season is complete, so will the wine from these barrels. The vacant space will be used for this year's barrels......

This floor is stocked with ordinary wines, nearly 40,000 bottles. Although it is ordinary, it is stored in the cellar, and it is also a wine with a certain aging potential. The average selling price is around $50.

A $50 bottle is already a good wine, with an average body, no obvious blemishes, and different flavors.

Hurried through the first floor to the second floor.

The second layer is much more refined. The hallway is noticeably wider, brightly lit, and the wine racks are much looser. Not as crowded as the first floor.

There are fewer than 10,000 red and white wines stocked here, which sell for around $70 to $300.

Most of the wines in this layer are aged for more than five years, with an average age of around 8 years, including the time spent in the barrels.

Wine has a life cycle, starting from bottling, growing in the bottle, slowly maturing, then weakening and dying.

Speaking of which, making aged wine is a thankless task. For example, Park Ge Estate produces 7,500 cases and 45,000 bottles of wine every year. Two-fifths are aged, and two-fifths are fruity, ready-to-drink sparkling wines, and non-aged wines, and two-fifths of wines put in more than four-fifths of the effort and bring less than three-fifths of the profits.

As the price of grapes in Napa Valley is getting higher and higher, the price of popular wine is also increasing year by year. Napa wines are also $20 or more for a lesser wine. The brewing cycle is short, and it can be bottled and sold in less than 4 months. In this way, the return of funds is fast, the investment is less, and the profits are not bad.

Now, in addition to well-known wineries, wineries in the second tier have either given up the premium wine market to concentrate on the secondary market. Either concentrate on the high-end wine market and abandon the secondary market.

Many wineries have transformed and found their own positioning, and the reason why Park Ge Winery is in a position that is not embarrassing or embarrassing is to multitask. The result of multi-purpose guidance is nondescript. Park Cord has its own sky-high prices, but there are also popular wines on the market, which makes the demand for Park Cord's popular wines in short supply, and the sales of wines in the 50 to $150 range are not very smooth. As for collectible wines, they are always in short supply because of their scarcity.

Along the way, Steve explains the vintage of each wine, as well as the climate, yield, and score of the year.

The second tier of wine parkers all have a score of 85 or more, and some have a score of 90 or more.

Steve has been managing the winery for twenty years and has a knack for sales. Especially for wines that don't sell very well, there are endless words of praise and deception. If Angela weren't also an expert in this area, she would definitely be fooled into not finding the north.

In the end, Angela purchased 1,100 cases of wine on the first and second floors, but only looked at the Parker score and vintage, as well as the aging potential, but as for the price, she didn't ask. The winery sells directly, and the price is definitely cheaper than the market, and she is not interested in this, and what she wants most is collectible wines.

The standard case of Park Cork has six bottles of wine in a case. 1100 boxes, 6600 bottles, it can be said that it is big business.

This is already a list of nearly half a million US dollars, Ye Mo couldn't help but look at Angela and asked, "Can you make up your mind about purchasing more than 6,000 bottles of red wine at one time?" ”

"The Blue Deep restaurant chain is my family business. I work at the Monterey restaurant and am also responsible for five restaurants in the United States. Is 6600 sticks of red wine a lot? If it is divided into 31 restaurants, it is not even enough for half a month's sales. Angela smiled and continued: "We focus on the high-end market, and before that, we mainly bought wines from Château Lafite and Château Mouton. For a number of reasons, we terminated our cooperation last month. How's that, are you interested in working with us now? ”