If TCA is a wine killer, why does Monterena's wine contain TCA? This brings us to an essential part of wine packaging, and that is the cork. When talking about bottle stoppers, you can talk about several major chapters, which are briefly mentioned here.

Nowadays, there are three types of wine stoppers, one is a cork stopper that has been used for thousands of years, the other is a plastic stopper that has been invented for more than 10 years, and the last is a metal stopper that has only been invented in recent years.

Of the three types of stoppers, the cheapest is definitely the plastic stopper, and the most expensive is not the cork stopper, but the metal stopper. Thinking about the thickness of a cork stopper, it's not easy to achieve that effect with a thin metal cap.

The worst thing for wine is definitely the plastic stopper, because they are not breathable at all, and it is not known whether the contact between plastic and wine will produce other bad materials. (Of course, this is everyone's impression, in fact, plastic bottle stoppers are not so bad.) The best ones are not cork stoppers that have been used for thousands of years, but newly invented metal stoppers. Because cork stoppers are very susceptible to bringing mould and TCA to wine.

TCA is widely used in pesticides and pesticides, and cork stoppers are made of bark, so it must have TCA, and oak stoppers are also very likely to mildew and produce TCA after soaking and drying in production.

However, the best metal caps are not noble enough because of prejudice. Think about the corkscrew opening process of an oak cork, it's a lot of trouble. The metal bottle cap can be unscrewed only by hand, so in the eyes of people with egg pain, the metal bottle cap has no noble atmosphere at all.

As a result, the vast majority of wines contain TCA, as long as the concentration is below a few ppm, so that it is not noticeable. Monterena does not contain more than 2ppm and is done without problems. But under the "super nose" of the editors of WS magazine, the matter was exposed.

WS Magazine claims to be the world's largest circulation wine magazine and competes with renowned sommelier Robert Parker's Wine Advocate. After they sent the wine to the lab for testing, they didn't change their mind at all when faced with the apparently fine TCA concentration. So the two sides began to argue, as the winery, of course, not their opponent, and finally Bo issued a statement saying that the cellar would be strictly disinfected and cleaned, and the matter was closed.

Since then, everyone at Château Monterena has not been happy to see WS Magazine. This also laid the groundwork for Bo to sell the winery to the French in the future. If there is a conspiracy theory, it is likely that this incident was a conspiracy of the French to create bad events in advance, reduce the value of Monterreyna's brand, and prepare for the bargaining of the acquisition.

It was this incident that made Bo see this as a good opportunity to promote the glorious history of California wine with the new generation of Americans, to expand the popularity of Monterena Winery, and to reshape the image of Monterena when "Bottle Strike" came to the door, so he did not hesitate to invest and provide filming locations.

The film investment did not bring much profit, but it also achieved the promotional purpose that Bo expected to a certain extent, but it was not enough, so Bo finally sold the winery and reached a sales agreement with the French Château Estul.

Then Beau carefully recounted his entanglement with Estul, and ended the filming of the Shoulder Pavilion.

The next day, everyone moved to the third filming location, the vineyard. It's Jimmy who starts to play. Jimmy Sr., who is involved in the revival of Château Monterena, recounts the hardships and joys of buying vineyards, replanting vines, and reviving the winery. Hiroya recounted the situation at that time, and his struggle to expand the vineyard. During the interview, Xiao Yifei occasionally showed a small face, mostly leaving a photo of him and the two old Zhuangzi. After two days of filming, the interview finally ended.

At the end of the interview, the host can leave, but the photographer Bobbi can't, he still needs to film the rest of the harvest process. Although Xiao Yifei has decided to buy a "Red One" camera to film the daily work of the winery, the harvest is now handed over to professionals, and he can also steal from the side.

It's September 22nd, and it's finally time to pick Chardonnay.

Finally, this day came, and now the harvest battle has officially begun. The timing of the harvest is particularly important for Chardonnay, as the acidity that is vital to Chardonnay disappears immediately in the late stages of ripening. Therefore, this first battle was a tough battle that had to be fought against time.

Monterena Winery's Chardonnay vineyards are located on the edge of Napa County, 35 kilometers from the mouth of Napa Valley. Located in the Oak Hills subdivision, it consists of a 15-acre Hanna lot and a leased 55-acre dry_creek lot.

Concubine Yue asked Mr. Takahashi, the owner of this plot. The 91-year-old named Frank Frank. Takahashi's Japanese descent are not simple figures either. He served in the U.S. Army, as a radioman and photographer. In 1942, he was forced to retire and sent to a concentration camp for conservation.

People have only heard of the Nazi concentration camps of the Germans, who put all the Jews in the concentration camps, but in fact it is not only the Germans who do it, but the United States also does it.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Roosevelt issued Presidential Order No. 9066 on February 15, 1942, requiring Japanese in the United States to report to a designated place within a specified time, and each adult could only carry 150 pounds of luggage, each person and each piece of luggage had a tag, and they no longer had a name but only a number.

Of course, there is also the theory that the "Niihau incident" triggered the presidential decree because Americans feared that Japanese Americans would become the fifth column.

There was only one way for Japanese Americans to leave the concentration camps, and that was to join the U.S. military. Of course, the Americans would not have been stupid enough to let them fight the Japanese in the Asian theater, so they were sent to the European theater to fight the Germans. The 442nd Regiment, which had distinguished itself and had the highest casualty rate, was formed by them.

Takahashi found an easy job in a concentration camp and taught accounting. After World War II, all Japanese Americans in the camps were released. Takahashi went to Chicago, and after obtaining his accountant certificate, he co-founded an accounting firm and grew the firm. Before his retirement, the accounting firm merged into Yongan Certified Public Accountants, one of the Big Four accounting firms. And he himself came to Napa and bought the vineyard.

In the 21st century, Takahashi is in his 80s, his children are all working in the San Francisco Bay Area, and most recently his eldest son is working as a packaging quality controller at Constellation Group Winery in Deerpark. The children had no intention of returning to work in the vineyards. So the vineyard was leased to the Monterena winery. Now Xiao Yifei proposed to buy it, Gao Qiao did not directly refuse, nor did he agree, but said that he was too busy to think about it.

Xiao Yifei knew his careful thoughts. Obviously, the old gentleman wanted to look at the prices of grapes from other plots before deciding.

However, it may be a disappointment for him, as the benchmark price of grapes has been lowered this year, and the benchmark price has dropped by 1%.

Xiao Yifei has also seen more articles in many wine magazines about the decline in wine prices this year. They generally believe that the financial crisis will bring a sharp decline in sales or even slow sales of high-end and mid-to-high-end wines, and Napa, as the concentration of high-end wines in the United States, must bear the brunt of this trend.

This wave of price reductions will not affect grapes such as Monterena and Takahashi, which are leased for a long time or have signed a long-term supply contract, but will only affect those "retail investors" outside.

However, Xiao Yifei, as a member of the winemakers, got some inside information from the communication with other winery owners, as if the wineries have no intention of reducing production, perhaps they hope to open export channels, but in addition to facing the competition of traditional wine powers such as France in the old world, but also facing the competition of Australia, Brazil, Chile and other wines that belong to the new world, it is not an easy task.

Driven afar, Poppy and his camera team arrive at the vineyards at the mouth of the Napa Valley, where they will film the harvest.

The "Hanna" and "Drygreak" plots at the mouth of the valley are planted with Chardonnay, which is 50 kilometers away from the winery, so the two plots have an operation manager named Bill. Hanna.

In the 70s, when Jimmy bought the winery and made the first batch of red wines, McGgetts suggested that Jimmy make faster white wines to alleviate the winery's financial difficulties. The Hanna family purchased a batch of grapes, and the wine from this batch of grapes was the Monterrey Chardonna, which participated in the "Paris Judgment".

After the winery became famous, after much negotiation, Jimmy finally bought the two Chardonnay vineyards offered to the winery, on the condition that the plots would still be managed by them.

For Bill. The relationship between Hanna and the winery can be regarded as a form of management outsourcing, and the winery entrusts the management of the vineyards there to Bill's management company, and the winery basically does not manage the vineyards there.

This type of outsourced management is also popular in the Napa Valley, where there are dozens of large and small vineyard outsourcing management companies.

This Bill. Hanna's family is also very famous, which will be explained later.

In addition to taking care of the winery's Hanna plot, Bill also leased 55 acres of Chardonnay vineyards in Gaoqiao. In addition to taking care of these vineyards, Bill also has more than 110 acres of vineyards to manage, and David quietly told Xiao Yifei that the Hanna family also wants to make wine, and has now made dozens of cases of red wine.

David said with a very contemptuous expression, Xiao Yifei didn't know at the time, and later Bo Cai told him that Bill and David had some conflicts, and that the whole vineyard was outsourced, and the winery only had to wait for Hannah to deliver the grapes every year. Therefore, Davy basically did not go to those two plots except for the necessary supervision and inspection, and Bill easily did not come to the winery.