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All the way through Yountville, St. Helena and finally Calistoga. Callistoga is a famous hot spring town in California, with a population of just over 5,000 people, and Monterreyna Winery is located in the north of the town.

After leaving the town, Ryan turned the wheel and came to an east-west road, which is Tubbs Street, and the Monterena Winery is located at 1429 Tubbs Street, and the car pulls into the winery's parking lot.

A woman in her 30s greeted her.

"Is this Mr. Xiao?"

Concubine Yue introduced: "This is the public relations manager of the winery. Jones. ”

"Hello Ms. Nala."

"Hello Mr. Xiao, Mr. Xiao looks so young."

"Thank you."

"Here, please, Mr. Barrett is waiting for you in the office." Up the stairs, is the main building of the winery, a European-style stone castle built in 1882, dense green vines crawl all over the front of the castle, making the stone castle antique and showing the texture of time.

Entering the winery's office, Xiao Yifei met the current owner of the winery. Barrett.

"Mr. Xiao believes that he already knows my conditions, I hope you can understand."

"I can understand that the French are to blame."

"Yes, our winery was set up by them last year."

Indeed, in June, Estoul said that the acquisition of the winery was signed, and even the interim executive committee in charge of the winery's affairs was established. Greg Ralston, Estur's winemaker Dominique, Estur's manager Plath.

It was Barrett who called the acquisition "the perfect dream wedding", and only a few months later, Esture announced that it would not fulfill the acquisition agreement.

"Do you know the history of the Monterena winery?"

Regarding Bo's somewhat inexplicable question, Xiao Yifei cautiously replied:

"Pretty much understood."

"Do you know about wine? Do you know how to run a winery? ”

He immediately added:

"It's not that I look down on the Chinese, you know, we took over this winery from the Chinese, I was 20 years old at the time, and I saw with my own eyes the tragic situation of the winery at that time, although it was related to Prohibition and phylloxera, but they didn't manage it at all, so we had to replant it all after taking over the winery."

"I know this history, and I admit that I don't know much about wine yet, let alone wine, and I don't know much about how to run a winery."

Xiao Yifei paused for a moment and continued:

"But I believe that no matter what, it's the people and the money that matter. Mr. Barrett runs a winery, so he must know Castle Lasgan. ”

Château Lascombes, commonly known as Château Lux Gin, is a classified winery located in the Bordeaux Margaux region, in the 1855 classification, Château Lux Gin was ranked in the second class, that is, in the entire Bordeaux region, including Lafite, Latour and other famous wineries, it ranks in the top ten, by the way, one kilometer next to the Château Lux Gin is the world-renowned first-class winery Château Margaux.

Champ Lux Gin was originally one with another second-class winery, the Doujo estate, not far away, and belonged to the Doujo family. At that time, the Dujo family also owned the Lamond estate, the predecessor of Margaux.

In the mid-18th century, the Doujo estate was divided in two, one part by Anthony Doujo. Lux King Knight established Lux Gold Winery. Over the next 100 years, Lux Gin was in the hands of the descendants of the Knight of Lux Gold. In 1855 the estate was classified as a Grade 2 champ in the Cru Cru and with the death of the last member of the Lux Kim family, the estate began to wander into the hands of its owners.

One of the more famous of these people was Jean, who won the Suez Canal lawsuit. Jules Lawyer. There is also the third generation of the Rockefeller family in the United States, and the still surviving Davy. Rockefeller.

In 2001, after the acquisition of Lux Gin for 67 million US dollars, the American investment company Colony Capital invested another 3,500 euros to purchase equipment, personnel, etc., and also recruited winemakers from other places, built millions of modern wine cellars, and expanded the area of grape cultivation, so it has made rapid progress in recent years. In 2000, it was launched at only 22 euros, and in 2010 it was as high as 72 euros, an increase of 227%.

And this Colony Capital is the company that bought the Paris Saint-Germain team, and it is also the company that later had a relationship with Michael Jackson's dream estate.

In 2011, the estate was sold to the French PICC group macsF for 200 million euros.

Xiao Yifei continued:

"I use it as an example to show that if there are talents, or if there are good talents, and I am willing to invest, I believe that I will gradually master how to manage a winery, and I can also improve the brand of Monterena Winery."

"My understanding of wineries is like what the people who visited Lux Gin said: they won't make you rich, but they will give you a steady stream of dividends. I can tell you the truth, I was prepared for a few years when the winery was running at a loss, but I was young and I could afford to wait. ”

The core of Xiao Yifei's long dialogue is that we are not short of money, and we can boil it slowly.

Barre Characteristic nodded:

"The young man is not impatient, it is good."

Who knew that Xiao Yifei's next sentence almost made Barrett jump:

"Seriously, Mr. Barrett, the proof of funds you want to see, now I don't have it, I don't even have an SSN ID now, how can I have an account to get proof of funds."

Bo with short silver-white hair and a small white beard on his lower lip. Barrett's eyes widened.

Xiao Yifei didn't wait for him to speak, and continued directly: "Although I don't have 40 million US dollars as you ask, I have this." ”

Xiao Yifei handed the tripartite agreement to Barrett.

"With this document, I will be able to borrow 200 million from Wells Fargo tomorrow."

Bo's face changed, he took the document and read it carefully.

"Do you really have these paintings?"

"Of course."

"That's a good thing. Can I see a picture of the painting? ”

Xiao Yifei handed him the photo on his phone.

"It's a good thing, if you can give me sunflowers and water lily ponds, I can give you the manor."

"Mr. Barrett, do you think it's possible? One sunflower is enough to buy a winery. ”

"Not enough, definitely not enough."

"You mean we can start price negotiations?"

Well, Barrett found himself in the ditch.

"I still need to think about it."

Xiao Yifei was satisfied, and he grasped Bo's true intentions.

"Well, I'm waiting for your good news. Of course, if you don't want to, please get back to me within five days so that I can find another winery. ”

After speaking, Xiao Yifei left the winery with Ryan and Concubine Yue.

When I came to the town of Calistoga, I found a random restaurant and got lunch. When you come to California's famous hot spring town, you can't fail to experience the characteristics of this place.

They took Highway 29, known as the main artery of Napa, to the Indian Hot Springs Resort south of Callistoga Town, intending to experience a hot spring sPa.

Concubine Yue is used to living in the United States, and she is not shy at all, so she asked for a room with Xiao Yifei and Ryan, and she had to enjoy the volcanic ash bath together. Ryan doesn't care, Xiao Yifei thought about it for a while, and felt that Concubine Yue was several years older than herself, and it wasn't her own dish, she wasn't afraid of a woman, and she was afraid of anything.

Entering the bathroom, three bathtubs are lined up, each of which is black, slimy volcanic mud, the waiters are not young at all, all are middle-aged aunts, and they are all bloated figures, and the domestic young beauty waiters can not be compared at all, but the skin of the aunts is really good, it seems that the volcanic ash bath can really beautify the skin.

The aunts helped them lie down in the bathtub and covered their bodies with their gloved hands with volcanic mud. The mud transferred heat to Xiao Yifei's skin, and then through the skin to the inside, making Xiao Yifei feel comfortable all over his body.

The aunt put his head on a small inflatable pillow and planned to smear mud on his face, but Xiao Yifei quickly refused.

Jensen next to him let out a comfortable sigh: "Oh, it's so comfortable, it's been a long time since I've been so comfortable." ”

"yes, I feel tired and it's gone."

Concubine Yue on the other side finally couldn't help it, she was very concerned about whether she could get the commission.

"Mr. Shaw, how did you talk to Mr. Barrett?"

Xiao Yifei turned his head and found that Concubine Yue's face was also covered with black mud, and there was actually a black bra hanging next to the bathtub, so he hurriedly turned around:

"What else, I reckon he'll agree, but just in case, you can find some wineries in Napa and ask them, and they'll cost tens of millions."

When Concubine Yue heard this, she was very happy, the business was successful, and she could get a commission of 480,000 yuan, which was much higher than the income from selling houses before. In the past, when a big house of 5 million yuan was sold, it was only 150,000 yuan in commission, and one point for the company, it was only 120,000 yuan. This commission, which is equivalent to a 20 million mansion, is of course happy.

After the volcanic mortar bath, several people enjoyed another massage, and they all sighed that it was worth the trip to Callistoga.

Back in San Francisco, Xiao Yifei took advantage of Barrett's thoughts to go to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum for a walk, and found that there were too many Chinese cultural relics in it. There are more than 2,000 pieces of porcelain, more than 1,200 pieces of jade, and more than 800 pieces of bronze. The collection of Chinese cultural relics, which began in the Neolithic period and ended in the Qing Dynasty, is the museum with the richest collection of Chinese jade in the world. Overall, it is a museum with the largest collection of Asian art in the United States, with a focus on Asian artifacts, especially Chinese artifacts.

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