Monterena Winery is located on Tubs Road, specifically on the north side of Tubs Road, east of the Napa River. In this area, there are only 4 buildings. House number 1401 is an oak barrel factory, followed by 1425 Monterena Winery, and further east are 1457 and 1473, both of which are residential.

The terrain here is quite interesting. Napa Valley is actually a long flat area sandwiched between mountains on either side. Here in the winery, there are two small mountain bags on the flat ground very abruptly, one is a steamed bun-shaped mountain bag 40 meters above the ground and 200 meters in diameter, and the other is an eggplant-shaped mountain bag that is more than 200 meters long, 80 meters wide and more than 10 meters high.

The cask factory and Monterena are located on either side of the mantou mountain bag, the cooperage is located in the southwest corner and occupies only a small area, and the rest of the land, including the entire mountain bag, is the property of the winery. The territory between the two mountain bags is owned by the winery and is now Xiao Yifei's territory. And the eggplant mountain bun was divided between the two households. Further east, there is a 50-meter-wide open space between Eggplant Mountain and Highway 29, which is still the territory of the winery, but unfortunately the land is barren, and Beau did not open it up as a vineyard, so he left it unrepresented.

The Eisen house that David was pointing to was 1473 next to the wasteland. It's much better than Beau's villa, not only is there a winery castle guarded by security guards at night, but there are also houses more than a hundred meters south of the street, and there are several families.

Xiao Yifei pointed to No. 1457, which was close to the winery castle, and asked:

"Whose family is this?"

Xiao Yifei asked because there is a flat land here, and he often sees guests who come to the winery to taste wine not drive their cars into the winery's parking lot, but choose to park their cars here and walk along the Yuhu Lake into the winery.

"That's old lady Karin's. We rented it as a parking lot. ”

When it comes to the parking lots at the Monterena winery, there are a lot of them, and the winery now has a total of five parking lots, (the truth is that in a 2013 interview, Beau said that the winery already has seven parking lots.) There is one from the main entrance of the winery, and then there are two parking lots on the hillside between the winery and the barrel factory, and there is another parking lot next to the Jade Lake, and the last one is the rented Karin site.

The Monterena Winery has so many parking lots because of the large number of tourists, and during the summer and autumn of each year, a large number of tourists flock to the Napa Valley, bringing a lot of tourism revenue to the wineries. According to statistics, in 1992, Napa County's total tourism revenue, including accommodation, food, shopping, etc., totaled only $360 million, and by last year, the total tourism revenue had exceeded the $1 billion mark.

In addition, Callistoga is the most famous hot spring town in Northern California, and in winter and spring, these two traditional wineries can also attract a large number of tourists to come here, soak in hot springs, do sPa, etc., and by the way, some tourists will still visit nearby wineries.

Among the wineries in Callistoga, there are only two wineries with castles. With the exception of the castellodiamorosa (Castellodiamorosa), which was newly opened the year before (2007), only the Monterena winery has a castle. Although the castle of Château Château is large and beautifully built, the Château de Monterena has been built since 1888 and has been around for more than 120 years. This kind of old winery castle is rare in the United States, and Beau is already planning to apply for the National Register of Historic Records.

All these conditions come together to make it so popular that the winery has a lot of visitors each year, which has led to the expansion of the winery's parking lot to accommodate those who come by car.

Xiao Yifei has always felt that renting is better than buying, so he asked casually:

"And does she sell it?"

"I don't know, why don't you ask someone?"

Xiao Yifei drove the winery's pickup truck and walked along Tubs Road, and sure enough, there was a "forsale" sign at the door of No. 1473, with the phone number of real estate economy written below. Xiao Yifei picked up the phone, called Concubine Yue, told her the real estate economic phone number of No. 1473, and asked her to ask No. 1457 if she wanted to make a move.

Concubine Yue finally found her old job and set out in a hurry. Soon, Xiao Yifei got the news that No. 1473 was priced at nearly 2.8 million, and No. 1457 was still under consideration, and Concubine Yue's estimate of it was $850,000. Eisen's house is also larger, about twice the size of Mrs. Karin's, and the house is relatively new, built in 1984, in addition to the swimming pool, there is also a garden and a small pond, if it weren't for the proximity to Highway 29, which caused some noise, the price must be a decent 3 million.

On the other hand, Mrs. Karin's home is a swimming pool, and the house was built before World War II. Oh my God, it's a haunted house. In this way, the unit price of the floor area of Mrs. Karin's house is much lower than that of Eisen's house.

Xiao Yifei's idea is to build a new place where he lives, which is naturally a better location for Mrs. Karin's house, and buying her site can completely tear down the "haunted house" and rebuild a modern villa. As for what he bought No. 1473 for, he hadn't thought about it yet, and the inquiry was just an impulse to spend money.

Xiao Yifei said directly:

"Then buy it, I'll entrust you with full responsibility."

Now Xiao Yifei is most concerned about the news of "Isis Space". It's a pity that Xiao Yifei doesn't even know what Isis Space is like now, and he can't find it if he wants to. This matter can only wait until more information is found in Hans's diary.

The winery has just arrived, and Xiao Yifei has not changed anything else, except for adding a man to the winery's kitchen. As Mr. Mao said: Without investigation, there is no right to speak, and at the beginning of getting off the bus, pointing fingers is the most undesirable.

Of course, he actually had a lot of ideas, he just didn't know what they were. Xiao Yifei took out a notepad and put forward the suggestions he thought of for the improvement of the winery when the transitional committee met tomorrow for everyone to discuss the feasibility.

One, two, three, four, Xiao Yifei quickly wrote about the replanting of vineyards. The vines are replanted because the vines have passed the peak fruiting period, the yield has been reduced and they have become old vines.

Now that Xiao Yifei has seen a lot of vineyards, he found that some vineyards are sold on old vines, and many wines are labeled "vieillevigne" (French) or "oldvine", which means that the wine is made from grapes picked from old vines. The price of such wines is often much higher.

For the old vine, there is no unified standard in the world, and many production areas do not have a clear standard, Australia generally calls the 35-year-old vine as the old vine, 70 years as the surviving vine, 100 years as the 100-year-old vine, and more than 125 years as the ancestor vine.

According to some accounts, the deeper roots of the old vines bring out the deep minerals, which makes the grapes more excellent, and the wines are more flavorful, layered and more shelf-stable. Of course, the older the vine, the lower the yield, but doesn't it have to control the yield of wine grapes, which is better than artificial flower and fruit removal.

However, another theory is that the old vine is a hype gimmick, and the quality of the wine has nothing to do with whether the old vine is or not. It is said that the old vine wine tastes better because of the location where the old vine is located. Because the vines are generally 60 years old, they can live long because of the good place, and such a good place should produce good wine, even during the peak fruiting period.

Whether it's hype or not, but the rarity of the old vine determines that the price of the old vine wine is a little higher.

If it is an old vine according to 35 years, the Monterena winery that now belongs to Xiao Yifei also has an old vine. For example, there are several plots of 1973 and 74 Cabernet Sauvignon that can be regarded as old vines, and the oldest is the plot next to this bee hill, which was planted in 1972.

However, Bo did not treat the old vine very well, and he thought that the old vine and the vine in the full fruit stage were similar. Therefore, since 2001 he has been planning to replant all the old vines after the full fruiting period. Now every year, one plot of land is demolished and replanted.

After looking at the vineyards, Xiao Yifei felt that another reason why Bo decided to replant was the density.

The winery was planted in the '70s, when the prevailing planting density was sparse, with row spacing of 12 feet (3.6 m) and plant spacing of 8 feet (2.4 m). This sparse row spacing leaves only 500 vines on 1 acre of vineyard. Nowadays, the popular planting density is denser, with a row spacing of 8 feet and a plant spacing of 6 feet, so that there can be more than 1,000 vines in 1 acre, which can also increase the yield and quality on the basis of controlling the yield of the vines.

When it comes to the density of grape cultivation, I have to complain about Bordeaux here.

In Bordeaux, vineyards are planted at a density of 6,000 to 9,000 vines per hectare. That's 3,000 plants per acre. For example, the famous Mouton winery, their planting density is 8,500 vines per hectare, which is equivalent to one grape per 1.2 square meters. So if you go to Bordeaux, you can see that their row spacing is only about 1.6 meters, and the plant spacing is not even 1 meter.

With such a narrow row spacing, you don't have to think about driving any tractor into it, and if you want to plough the land, you can only rely on cattle and horses, and even if cows and horses are naughty, they may hit the vines next to them.

The first vineyard to be replanted is the 1K plot next to the beehill, and after 8 years of replanting, the vines are now in a stable and productive season, and according to them, the quality has improved significantly. This also means that replanting cannot be stopped, but should be continued.

But if Xiao Yifei cultivates grape seedlings after space strengthening, it is difficult to say about other plots, and the more than 100 acres of manor vineyards must all be updated to optimized varieties, and other plots of Cabernet Sauvignon in different proportions can be blended, so as to increase the selling price and increase profits. In that case, the replanting work should be halted for the time being.

It is only according to the translated information that the Osiris space needs to be planted for one season, that is, half a year to a year, before it can be strengthened, and for the grape variety, the Louis Latour family experimented with one year, that is, it must be strengthened next spring.

If it was before, next year, the existing grapes in the Osiris space would be transplanted and planted in the field to continue growing, but now there is an Isis space. Xiao Yifei speculated that since the Osiris space can strengthen plants, then Isis is also the god of agriculture, and it stands to reason that her space should also be able to provide some kind of reinforcement for plants. Perhaps at this time, the vines should be transplanted into the Isis space to be re-strengthened, so that the new grapes can have the result of two space strengthening, so that the quality is superior. It seems that the replanting of the vineyards will be halted for the time being.

Hey, it's all the water in this Osiris space, which can only optimize the grapes to a certain extent, and it would be much more convenient if it was like in other people's novels, a single irrigation of water can strengthen the crops in all aspects.

Of course, you can also not stop the replanting work, just water him to make some optimizations of the grapes, improve some quality, so that after optimization, I believe that the quality of some wines can also be slightly improved, so that Xiao Yifei can slightly increase the price. But there is obviously still room for improvement, which can allow him to earn more profits, if he gives up, Xiao Yifei is unwilling.

After thinking about it for a while, Xiao Yifei finally decided to stop replanting the more than 100 acres near the winery, including the newly purchased more than 50 acres, and plant grape varieties that have been strengthened by two spaces after obtaining the Isis space and studying its strengthening effect. The grapes here are combined with a certain percentage of grape varieties from other plots to make the winery's wines.

Immediately, Xiao Yifei thought of another problem, that is, the number of grape seedlings in the space is definitely not enough for replanting outside, and if you want to replace all the vineyards with strengthened varieties, you need more than 100,000 grapes in total, do you want to build a small nursery?

Xiao Yifei wandered into the vineyard, found David, and led him to the gentle slope of the small hill in the middle of the ingot-shaped vineyard, where the slope is not large, it is full of volcanic rocks, this kind of barren soil, there is no problem in making vineyards.

"David, you say we're going to reclaim the rest of the land here."

David grabbed a handful of dirt and said to Xiao Yifei:

"Boss, the soil here is not very good."

"I know, you reclaim it first, didn't we hire Bob as a soil expert, give him a year or two to renovate, and then we will use it when the renovation is complete."

The sprinkled volcanic ash spilled from David's fingers, and Davy clapped his hands a few times, raising a puff of dust:

"Okay, I'll find someone to reclaim it."

The two men drilled half a circle around the hill, which can be cultivated for about 10 acres, and when it matures, the winery can increase its production by 2,000 boxes. Xiao Yi flew to climb the mountain bag, and David didn't know what he wanted to do, so he could only follow. Halfway up the mountain, the slope reaches 45 degrees, and it is full of small broken rocks, and if you don't pay attention, you will fall.

When you climb the hillside, you can see the surrounding scenery, Napa Valley is worthy of a valley, a few kilometers of wide flat land sandwiched by mountains on both sides, which can create at least a billion dollars of output value wine every year, plus other tourism and other income, staff salaries, grape sales and other cDP at least tens of billions.

The two of them lingered on top of the mountain pack for a while. Xiao Yifei pointed to his feet and asked:

"I'm going to use drip irrigation equipment for all the vineyards on this side of the winery. You say, by building a water tower here, we'll be able to put drip irrigation on all the vineyards, and we'll be able to irrigate all the vineyards with just the switch on and off. What do you think? ”

"It's nice to have drip irrigation and it's a lot easier for us to manage the vineyards, but it's a big expense. And the construction of a water supply tower here is also a significant expense. ”

"That's good, isn't it?"

"Yes, it is beneficial, but it does not need to be concentrated in one water supply tower, it can be completely dispersed into several water supply towers, so that the amount of work is small, and the pipeline is also saved a lot."

There is drip irrigation equipment to facilitate Xiao Yifei to add space water into it, and setting up a unified large-scale equipment is convenient for himself or future generations to add space water, otherwise every time to add each water supply point, it will be troublesome.

"Okay, that's it, let's go to drip irrigation."

"Boss, Vera's grapes I think we still have to replant to ensure the quality, in addition, those old vines in the 70s are different from the current one, we are now installing drip irrigation equipment, and we will have to toss a little more in the future, it is better to wait for the replanting, we will slowly get it ourselves."

"David, I want to stop the replanting here next year."

"What's the matter, boss."

Xiao Yifei can't say that he wants to plant all the grape seedlings that have been strengthened by two spaces.

"I want to see how the replanted vines are doing before deciding, and I'd like to see if we're old vines."

"That's the same with the old vines, and the grape varieties planted in the 70s are definitely not as good as the ones we have now."

"We have an old saying in China that it is better to be still than to be still, and now that biotechnology is developing so fast, maybe better varieties will appear soon."

David didn't care about this question now, he thought about it and spread his hands.

"You're the boss, you have the final say, then we'll take a look."

"Of course, we didn't all stop. Anyway, we still have so many plots in other places, so let's choose one to replant this year. ”

After speaking, Xiao Yifei thought about the nursery again.

"David, how about we get our own nursery and raise our own seedlings?"

"We need more than 10,000 grape seedlings to replant every year, we don't need a nursery at all, and we need to plant all kinds of rootstocks to open a nursery, so there is really no need to build a nursery."

"We're going to have a big expansion in the future, and then we're going to have a few thousand acres of vineyards, so that's going to be a lot of replanting."

David looked at Xiao Yifei with incredible eyes:

"Thousands of acres? There aren't many vineyards of this size in the Napa Valley. ”

"Let's fight for it."

"Thousands of acres are not replanted all at once, and it doesn't take much every time, so there's really no need to build a nursery. And those nurseries don't make a lot of money, and they have to hire extra people to take care of the seedlings. ”

"Okay, I'll think about it again."

The acquisition process was indeed too long and painful for everyone to watch, and I am deeply sorry. But these words were written two months ago, and I can't change them for a while, so when the time comes to Kavin, I'll come back and revise them here. In short, thank you for persevering, and thank you for your reward "Willow Reflection is Like a Dream" from book friends, and thank you for your encouragement in the book review area.

Actually, I'm also very depressed about this paragraph.,I didn't have a word this week.,Hurry to check and revise the later chapters.,So as not to have this kind of drag again.。

Originally, this word of thanks should have been sent out with the previous chapter.,But the network was suddenly cut off.,It turned out to be in arrears.,Paid the network fee.,When I came back, I sent it out on a regular basis.,So this can be moved here.。