It was at this time that Nala returned to the winery with the filming team. The host of the interview, Nala, found a host of the San Francisco local station, a woman in her 30s, named Mia. Mia has big golden waves, and her head is unusually big, but people look very intellectual.

In order to film the interview, Jimmy's wife drove Jimmy back to the winery. On the first day, the host Mia communicated with the two owners of the village, and increased the tacit understanding of the script.

Photographer Gabi was obviously fascinated by the autumn scenery of the winery, and he and his assistant carried a tripod and a camera on their backs, and climbed up the Yuanbao Hill for a while, climbed up the reservoir for a while, shot a long shot, and then got between the rows of grapes and shot at the vines and grape bunches. Xiao Yifei was very interested in their stuff.

"You're a digital camera?"

"Yes, this is the red_one camera we rented, from California Red."

"Is this good?"

Gabi also seemed to be a good teacher, and immediately began to praise the machine endlessly. What is a 12-million-pixel CMOS sensor, RAW encoding...... After introducing it for a long time, Xiao Yifei knew that this camera supports a lot of resolutions, up to 4k, and it is completely the quality of digital movies after editing and cutting, and it is no problem to put it on the big screen.

I took a look at Gabi's shot, and it felt very good. He asked curiously:

"How much does this red one (which is generally translated in China) cost?"

"It's not expensive, the host is 10,000, and the full set of basic configurations is 30,000."

Xiao Yifei doesn't know how to compare the price with other companies' movie cameras, and the person in front of him should know. As a result, after asking, I learned that other basic models such as Sony are 5 times that of it, and some high-end cameras are only rented but not sold.

"The price is so cheap, how does the performance compare to them?"

Instead of answering him head-on, Gabi asked:

"Have you seen The Prophet?"

The "Prophet" he said was released in March this year, and the film starring Nicolas Cage was translated as "Doomsday Prophecy", "Mystery Code" and so on. In March, Xiao Yifei was still in China, and there was no release in China at that time, and it had already been released when he arrived in the United States.

Seeing Xiao Yifei shaking his head, Gabi sighed regretfully.

"This movie was shot with Hongyi."

Since all the movies it makes can be released, Xiao Yifei is assured of the quality. Xiao Yifei twisted the machine curiously, it was heavy, at least 30 pounds, no wonder he had to use such a thick tripod.

Then Xiao Yifei observed for a while and found that the machine still had shortcomings. The first is that the boot time is too slow, it takes 1 minute. The second is to use the CF card as the storage medium, each card can only be used for 4 and a half minutes, and the addition ratio needs to be changed frequently. Xiao Yifei also tried it, and found that focusing was a bit troublesome, requiring special practice, and it was not as simple as a home digital video recorder. But think about it, it's a professional camera after all, and it's certainly no problem for professionals.

The next day, the interview officially began. First of all, the winery's castle was filmed as the background, and the old Jimmy was the first to appear in front of the fermentation room.

The host first gave a brief introduction to the winery, then introduced the old Jimmy, and then the photographer Gabi put the old Jimmy into the lens.

"Mr. Jimmy, can you tell me when the Monterena Winery was founded?"

"The history of the Monterena Winery is very long, and in 1882 the New England immigrant Alfred Brown. Mr. Tubbs bought 322 acres of land here as ranch and farm ......"

Alfred and his brother Sinan came to California and started a rope business. Soon Mr. Blanche, the first millionaire in California and the first person to name Calistoga, announced the discovery of gold in California, which ushered in the famous California Gold Rush. As the gold mines grew, the Alfred brothers' business grew and they made a lot of money. A famous hotel was also opened.

Blanche liked Calistoga very much because of the hot springs, so Blanche opened the first hot spring resort in Calistoga, which was the Indian Hot Springs Resort that Xiao Yifei visited.

When Alfred grew old, he also used Calistoga as a retirement home, bought a farm, and began to grow grapes and start a winery in 1882. This is where the Monterena winery comes in.

Monterena Winery in Alfred. Tubbs grew rapidly, becoming the 7th largest winery in Napa in 1896. In the same year, Alfred died, and in his honor, the road in front of the winery was named Tubbs Street.

The estate, along with 322 acres of vineyards and farms, was inherited by Alfred's descendants. Unfortunately, with the promulgation of Prohibition, the winery declined.

In 1958, the winery was sold to Mr. and Mrs. Yortwingfrank, an electrical engineer who was born in mainland China, fled to Taiwan during the liberation, and retired to the United States. When they bought it, they didn't take care of the vineyard and used it as a place to retire. In the backyard of the distillery, a Chinese-style garden is planned to be built to remember the hometown. They excavated a five-acre jade lake. There are small islands in the middle of the lake, and there are shoulder pavilions built on the islands. And build a curved bridge from the garden to connect with the island, at one end of the curved bridge, there is a stone, there is a copper sign on it, which is engraved with "Qiongyuan style, with the day new, radiant, bequeathed to future generations." ”。

It's just that the small islands and the Xichuan Pavilion on the Jade Lake are now inaccessible to ordinary people, and only high-ranking members of the Monterena Winery Club can come here for wild wine tasting.

The Chinese couple left not only the Jade Lake at the winery, but also built a Japanese-style tea house halfway up the mountain. It is now also a tasting room for a club of another level.

In 1968 the winery was sold to Lee. Basch quickly found two partners, Jimmy, who was a lawyer at the time, and Hann, who ran a supermarket and shopping center in Southern California. Together, they bought back more than 100 acres of land and replanted vines, giving the winery a foundation for revival.

In 1972, Jimmy bought the winery and vineyard, and when Beau was still young and not yet a winemaker, Jimmy hired Mike. Gjitz served as winemaker.

McGergitz fled from Yugoslavia in 1954 to West Germany to study winemaking, then to Canada, and in 1968 to work at California's Granavian Winery, where he is said to have been Mondavi's assistant.

In 1976, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the United States, the Parisian Judgement, which was of great significance to Château Monterey and Napa wines, and even American wines, was held at the InterContinental Hotel in Paris. Overnight, Château Monterena became a household name in the United States, with newspapers, television and radio stations reporting the news, and even Time magazine reporting on Château Monterena.

At this time, Jimmy was poached. McGergitz left the winery and co-founded Gurgitz Hill Winery, which now has more than 366 acres of vineyards and produces more than 60,000 cases of wine annually.

Since then, the Monterena winery has developed rapidly, the vineyard area has continued to expand, and the famous sommelier Parker has given the wines produced by the Monterena winery a score of more than 90 points every year, even if the vintage is bad, under the control of Beau, the quality of the winery has been consistent, and the winery has cultivated a large number of loyal fans.

After Jimmy's filming at the door of the winery, Beau is back on the stage.

He was also asked to give a brief introduction to the history of the winery, followed by a description of his work as a winemaker at the winery, and Bo also opened the gate of the castle and led everyone to visit the fermentation workshop on the first floor of the castle, telling everyone about the modernization of the winery.

This concludes the interview with the castle section. Everyone moved to the Shoulder Pavilion in the Jade Lake, and as usual, old Jimmy came on the stage, and told everyone about the situation of the winery after he took over the winery, and told some interesting stories. In addition to retelling the history of the winery, Beau then focused on the dispute between the wine watcher (R), a well-known WS magazine in the wine world, in 2004 over the TCA content of wine.

TCA is a common organic solvent, and the most commonly used is insecticides. And in nature, it may also be produced in small amounts due to mildew. TCA is very perceptible, and a concentration of 10 ppm, or 1 part per 100,000, can give the impression that the wine smells like moldy newspapers. Therefore, TCA can be said to be a wine killer, and it belongs to the enemy of the highest standard treatment of each winery.

In 2004, WS magazine broke the news that the wines of Château Monterena contained excessive levels of TCA. As a best-selling professional wine magazine, WS says that a certain wine is good, which can cause the brand of wine to sell well and increase the price. To say that Monterena is bad now, of course, greatly damages the reputation of Monterena wine.

The incident caused a stir at the time, with the editor of WS magazine insisting that the cellar of the Monterena winery was contaminated. It is important to know that the cellar generally contains all the wines of the last 2 years and a large number of 3rd year wines, which can be said to be the most important place for the winery. Once the cellar is contaminated, it means that the wine in the cellar is in danger of being fully reimbursed. It's like trying to dig up Monterena's roots and bankrupt them.

Is it really that Monterena has a TCA? There really is.

WS magazine took 7 bottles of Monterena winery wine to a professional laboratory for testing, but the results showed that 2 wines had TCA levels below 1 ppm, and the other 5 bottles had TCA concentrations of 1.1 to 1.7 ppm. If it is true that the wine is contaminated with TCA, then this concentration will definitely exceed 10ppm, and the winery's will not reach this concentration at all, and there is no way to detect the presence of TCA in the wine, so it can only be said that the editors of WS magazine have a "special function" nose.

It is estimated that some people don't like to read these histories, but after thinking about it carefully, I feel that it is better to keep it, after all, this is the history of the winery. Therefore, if you dare not be interested in this chapter and the next chapter, you can skip it.