Xiao Yifei returned to the winery directly from Berkeley, and he and Martin changed cans every day for the next few days. After changing Zinfandel, it was finally the turn of the all-important Cabernet Sauvignon. The winery's most expensive Cabernet Sauvignon is much more cautious, and Beau and Cameron finally appeared, under their "guidance". The Cabernet Sauvignon artesian wines are transferred to another fermentation tank, where they will rest for a period of time before proceeding to the next step of malolactic fermentation. The pressed Cabernet Sauvignon is then placed in a smaller fermentation tank to be clarified. At this stage, no substances are added, the wine lies quietly in the fermenter, waiting for the yeast to slowly die, their corpses slowly settle to the bottom of the fermentation tank with large particles of suspended solids, and then the laboratory personnel will add reagents to start the post-fermentation of the wine.

After a few busy days, we finally got the Cabernet Sauvignon. At this time, mustard was planted in the vineyard and the vines were watered for the last time, and the vineyard's field management work this year came to an end. David finally went hunting in Canada with Sheriff Jonathan, and before he left, he announced that he would definitely come back from a bear hunt.

Just when Xiao Yifei thought that it would be easier, at least until the end of post-fermentation, a more difficult job was still waiting for him, that is, changing the barrel.

The wine is not filtered before entering the oak barrel for aging, so the wine contains a large amount of suspended solids and sediments, which can be said to be impurities in the wine, if these impurities exist in the wine for a long time, it is easy to cause the deterioration of the wine, and after the wine is in the oak barrel for a period of time, these impurities will slowly precipitate down and deposit to the bottom of the barrel, at which time the upper wine will be extracted and put into another oak barrel to continue aging. After a certain period of time, a new sediment will be generated, at which point the barrel will be replaced.

Generally speaking, the first barrel change takes place within a month of the wine being aged in oak barrels. In the first year, it is usually done once every 3 to 4 months, and then there is no need to change barrels during the subsequent aging period.

In addition to removing impurities, changing barrels also allows different oak barrels to bring different flavors to the wine, so that the flavors of the wine tend to be uniform after aging.

Now Xiao Yifei and their rebarrel change is the last rebarrel for the wine made in 08, the wine of the 08 winery is filled with 1100 oak barrels, this rebarrel is a big project, but no matter how big the project has to be.

The job seemed simple, Beau and Cameron didn't show up, and the cellar workers were still working under the leadership of a sad Martin. I saw them bring a clean empty oak barrel, bring a machine, and slowly transfer the wine from the oak barrel to the empty barrel. Since the wine at the bottom of the barrel is not absorbed, the new barrel must not be satisfied, so the second barrel is drawn to fill it up.

Xiao Yifei watched the workers extract the impurities of the liquor into another oak barrel, and he asked curiously:

"What do you do with these wines? Wouldn't you just throw it away or just continue to age? ”

"No, after we finish changing the barrels, these impurities will be filtered once, and the filtered impurities will be used for composting, and the wine will continue to be put in oak barrels for later use."

That's about the same, Xiao Yifei just took a look, there are almost more than 10 liters of wine left in an oak barrel, and these more than 1,000 barrels are more than 10,000 bottles of wine.

The cellar is an enclosed space, and if it is transported by machinery, it will pollute and destroy the biological environment in the cellar, and the cramped cellar has no space to operate machinery, so the barrels can only be transported manually. Several workers struggled to erect the freshly filled oak barrels, weighing more than 200 kilograms, and then rolled them at an angle to the other side for storage. Even if a bucket is replaced, thinking that the whole process will have to be operated thousands of times, Xiao Yifei instantly feels like he has collapsed.

Martin agrees:

"Now you know why we're called 'cellar rats', moving these barrels from here to there and from there in the cellar and from there to here, that's what we do every day. It's dark. ”

The workers next to him also complained about their grievances. Xiao Yifei can only say:

"Okay, okay, I'm done changing the barrel, I'll invite you to the town for lunch, okay."

Martin continued:

"Okay, it's better not to bring Cameron."

These workers also responded with a mouthful of nonsense.

You said that this American is too, obviously Xiao Yifei, the boss, has gone down to the cellar to work, and Cameron, the director of winemaking, didn't even say that he came to the boss to behave in front of him, and he also came to change the barrel, wasting an opportunity to earn performance in vain.

Xiao Yifei followed the change of barrel for a day, and found that this job is not only a strength job, but also a job that requires a lot of experience. For example, when extracting, it is very difficult to see the inside of the barrel through the small hole in the waist of the barrel, so where to extract it depends on experience, shallow can not completely extract the clear wine, deep and will bring in too many impurities, so this work is the longest and most experienced Martin personally controlled. In addition, the most tiring task of carrying may seem simple, but in fact, it is very troublesome to grasp the angle of inclination of the barrel. Once the angle is small, it is not possible to roll the barrel at all, or the rolling distance is very short. If the angle is too large, a person will not be able to bear the weight of the barrel, which will cause the barrel to fall to the ground and break.

After a day of labor, Xiao Yifei finally had a tangible experience of the hard work and fatigue of making wine. Earlier, he thought it would be hard to shovel the dregs and feet, but compared to changing barrels, that thing is equivalent to the ordinary difficulty of the game.

After moving oak barrels in the cellar for a day, Rao's body was strengthened by the food of Isis space, and Xiao Yifei still felt so tired. Back at Beehill Villa, Blacknose greeted him warmly with a tennis ball in his mouth. Xiao Yifei rubbed its head:

"Okay, I'm tired today, so let's stop playing the ball throwing game."

The black nose is now almost fine, as if it understands what Xiao Yifei means, it immediately lay down, pillowed the tennis ball with its chin, and rolled its eyes pitifully to see Xiao Yifei. Seeing the disappointed eyes of the black nose, Xiao Yifei could only sigh:

"Yes, you're an uncle, I'll play with you for a while, just for a while."

Seeing him bend down to pick up the tennis ball, the black nose immediately got up and jumped around wagging his tail. When Xiao Yifei threw the tennis ball out, he immediately chased after the tennis ball. When he caught up with the tennis ball, he immediately ran back to Xiao Yifei with his mouth and put the tennis ball on the ground.

Xiao Yifei picked up the tennis ball again, threw it out, and the black nose ran to pick it up again, and so on several times.

"I've played a few times, it's okay, I haven't cooked yet."

Black Nose didn't lie down this time and pretended to be pitiful, just looked down at the tennis ball. Xiao Yifei could only pick it up again, but unfortunately this time his strength was too strong, and the direction was not well controlled, and the tennis ball bounced on a tree and fell into the vineyard. Blacknose also rushes into the vineyard to find a tennis ball. After waiting for a while, it hadn't come back yet, and seeing that it was getting dark, Xiao Yifei went to cook.

When Xiao Yifei finished eating, he put the black nose's portion into the rice bowl, and the black nose hadn't come back yet, and this brainless guy was still looking for tennis balls in the vineyard.

"Black Nose, it's time to eat."

shouted a few times, but the black nose did not respond. Xiao Yifei was worried that he was lost, so he came outside the house.

"Black nose, black nose."

After a few screams, the black nose emerged from the bushes. As I walked, I looked back at the outside, and at a glance, I knew that it was a tennis ball that I didn't find.

"Okay, don't look at it, let's look for it tomorrow."

Xiao Yifei came to the study, opened the book, turned on his mobile phone, and began to learn the holy script. After a while, the black nose came in dejectedly and lay next to Xiao Yifei. Reaching out and touching its head, seeing that it was still sullen, he took out a tennis ball from the space where the miscellaneous things were stored and gave it a tennis ball.

The black nose didn't pounce immediately, but licked Xiao Yifei's hand, and then the tennis ball was in his mouth and refused to throw it on the ground.

"Put it down, look what you look like with a tennis ball in your mouth, and the hala is flowing to the ground."

The black nose looked up at Xiao Yifei, obediently put down the tennis ball, and pressed it with his front legs.

Seeing its cautious appearance, Xiao Yifei shook his head with a smile and continued to study.

The next day, Xiao Yifei continued to work as a porter in the wine cellar for half a day, and in the afternoon he drove to Napa City to buy a tennis ball machine. After returning home, he put the ball machine on the porch, set the parameters, and with a soft sound, a tennis ball was shot out, and the black nose was stunned, and his head was probably still wondering why the owner didn't do it, and the tennis ball flew out.

"Hurry up and chase it."

It was only then that the black nose reacted, and he chased after it, finally taking it down before the tennis ball rolled into the grove. It's a pity that it didn't expect that there were two tennis balls in the machine, and at this time, the machine automatically launched another tennis ball with a whoosh, and the black nose had to chase the other tennis ball with the tennis ball in his mouth, and finally held the second tennis ball in his mouth, and the third tennis ball was launched again.

Although poor Blacknose caught up with the tennis ball, it was never able to hold the third tennis ball at the same time, and it was in a hurry.

Xiao Yifei asked Cang Tian speechlessly.

"Alright, don't be stupid, come back first."

Black Nose looked back at another tennis ball step by step. Xiao Yifei rubbed its dog head, took out two tennis balls from its mouth, pointed to the third, and the black nose immediately turned around to pull it back.

Xiao Yifei wanted to test how far this thing could reach, so he moved to Isis Space with a black nose. Adjusted to the maximum speed, it seems that the maximum launch speed of the tennis ball boasted by the boss is more than 180 kilometers, Xiao Yifei seemed to hear the sound of the tennis ball cutting through the air, and saw the tennis ball hit the dome on the opposite side, and then was bounced back, so that it hit the stainless steel water tank of the drip irrigation system, and then bounced to the solar panel on the opposite side of the river, and finally fell into the river.

The black nose jumped out with a bang, and Xiao Yifei didn't have time to call it.

Blacknose quickly came to the river, looked at the tennis ball in the water, and jumped down with a pop. After a while, he ran back with a tennis ball dripping with water.

Xiao Yifei looked at the black nose of the show with a smile and laughter, and could only find a blow to dry the hair on his body.