Chapter XXIV
Grape, in addition to being a fruit, the vast majority of people, when they think of it, will think of wine, wine; The wine of the "Luminous Wine Glass".
Zhou Yi has been drinking wine for some time.
He drinks wine, which is the influence of Zhou's mother.
I don't know who said it, wine has beauty, sleep and other effects, so far, Zhou's mother has become attached to wine.
She usually drinks it with Sprite. In fact, she couldn't stand the strange smell of dry red wine.
Zhou Yi doesn't like to drink Sprite wine, feeling that such a mixture, when drinking it in his mouth, there is always a fluttering sourness feeling, with the sweetness of Sprite, it becomes more and more prominent.
Still, when he's fine, he drinks some - isn't it just a drink?
A few years ago, I don't know which day, Zhou Yi suddenly saw an introduction to red wine, saying that it was "red wine with Sprite", which was the biggest waste!
He began to experiment with dry red wine without Sprite.
Zhou Yi likes the feeling of being slightly drunk after drinking, but the liquor is too strong, and most of the time, he doesn't like it; Beer is light and bitter, except for the cold one, it is usually not drunk, but cold beer is more suitable for lobster and barbecue in summer, and when it is slightly cold, it is not suitable; Most of the rice wine brewed in the countryside is good, but when it can be drunk, there are too few; As a result, red wine has become the best supplement.
A few years after Zhou Yi drank red wine for the first time, he tried to drink dry red without Sprite again, and the first thing he smelled was the fruity aroma that could overflow the entire room; Then, when I raised the glass, I saw the wine - the color was slightly rippling, the ruby red wine rippled on the wall of the glass, and slowly flowed down, it was the beautiful tears.
A sip of red wine in the mouth, the smooth taste, dispelled a little sourness brought by the same, turned into a ball into the abdomen, at this time, the fruity aroma is more and more intense, the sour taste, but also into a faint sweet and sour, leading to the liquid flow, brush to the stomach, full of belly.
From this moment, he began to appreciate wine, feel the connotation, culture, and life of this wine......
Zhou Yi planted grapes in Dongtian, so naturally he had to make some wine.
He was making wine for the first time, and the only thing he had to know about winemaking was "yeast fermentation, which converts sugars into wine" from biology books.
However, since the principle is clear, there is no need to worry about other details.
He bought some clay jars and rinsed, twiged and crushed the grapes when they were ripe last year, leaving them to ferment in closed jars.
When the fermentation is almost complete, the wine is filtered out, and the still green wine is refilled in a jar and continued to be stored in the cave.
The cave is the most important thing that is the constant temperature of the cave. They maintain temperatures of more than ten degrees all year round, and they are a good place to store wine - at least that's what Zhou Yi thinks.
The wine that was shoddy by Zhou Yi spent a winter, and finally at the end of spring, it was remembered by Zhou Yi, the "unscrupulous master", and "caught" from an unknown cave behind the house.
He lifted the wine seal with some trepidation, like an irresponsible father who suddenly woke up and faced his own child, nervous - he was afraid to see what he hoped for.
However, he was lucky, but the moment the wine seal was opened, he saw a clear red wine with a faint fruity aroma, not the strange thing of mildew and decay that he had imagined.
He used the utensils used to pour wine, took out a hanging of red wine from the wine jar, looked at the pure red, felt the faint aroma of wine, and couldn't help but rejoice.
Take a sip of it, the docile liquor, without the slightest irritation, slips into the throat tamely, and is as natural and ironed as a ball falling on a plate; The aroma of the wine, which was originally very faint, was like a bomb that had been detonated, bursting out of the wine at the moment it fell into the throat - I don't know how long it had been gathering momentum to have such a fierce force.
Without oak barrels, there would be no such intense tannins, and it would seem that the wine's characteristic ageing ability and life would be lost, but in fact, this is not the case.
No one knows what kind of complex changes she has undergone, with a light and memorable greenness, mellow flowing between the tongue, leaving a faint sweetness, rushing out of the extremely rich fruity aroma, and finally rushing into the throat-hole, leaving only overflowing saliva and people who keep swallowing and having a wonderful aftertaste.
He took out a whole jar of wine, and before he reached the mouth of the cave, he met Zhou's mother walking into the cave.
"What is this?" Zhou's mother looked at the wine jar that Zhou Yi was carrying.
"I'm going to give you a taste of the wine I made." Zhou Yi said.
"You brewed it? Can you drink it? Zhou's mother said with a smile.
"Still don't believe in your son? In the future, you should not drink any other red wine, but only your son's wine. ”
"What, you still want me to advertise for you?" Zhou's mother said jokingly.
The mother and son were talking, and soon they were in the house.
Zhou Yi placed transparent glasses and poured half a glass of red wine into each glass.
Zhou's mother took the cup and hesitated, "Is there a Sprite?" I'm going to drink it with Sprite. Although after Zhou Yi's popular science, she knows that red wine is not worthy of Sprite, but knowing is one thing, and doing it is another thing - although she likes the "health and beauty" brought by red wine, it does not mean that she is willing to wronged her tongue because of this.
"No Sprite." Zhou Yi said, "The wine I make is different from others, you can taste it first." ”
"Well, for my son's sake, I'll taste it." Zhou's mother had no choice but to say.
As usual, she smelled the wine, and felt that it was far from a rich fragrance, not even as good as the red wine that had been paired with Sprite, and she couldn't help frowning, and she didn't have much hope in her heart.
She even felt that maybe the wine would be as dull as the aroma.
When you take a sip of wine, there is no sour and astringent taste in the original imagination, only a sour aroma and sweet and sour that are easy but worth reminiscing - not strong, but extremely lively and jumpy, like a cardamom and carefree little girl, without much thought, but that simple beauty, really lovely.
Zhou's mother carefully reminisced, just like reminiscing about the youth and passion of the year.
In her forties, she has forgotten the taste of the year for too long, but she didn't expect that this memory of youth would surge so fast, just like the unexpectedly fruity fragrance that rushed out between her tongue......
Her whole body was immersed in this fruity fragrance, and she did not speak for a long time, and her eyes gradually became moist, which was not easy for people to see, and was quickly concealed.
She didn't know why her emotions were surging so fast, and she didn't know why the sudden memories made her so uncontrollable, but the beauty of this moment was enough to make her reminisce for a lifetime, enough to make her mentality ten years younger.
The season of flowers and rain in the past is gone, but the memories can still be turned over occasionally, right?
Zhou's mother didn't dare to drink more, for fear of losing face in front of her children, but it didn't affect her to take the bottle of wine in Zhou Yi's hand......
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