Bordeaux wine is world-renowned, with its supple and delicate taste, and its style is varied, known as the "Queen of French Wine", and is recognized as the world's largest wine producing area.

Bordeaux is both a city and the name of a wine, and is by far the largest boutique wine region in France and is considered a famous appellation in France. Located in the southwest of France, in the Garonne, Dordogne and Gironde valleys. The area is vast, 85 miles long from east to west, more than 70 miles from north to south, with nearly 110,000 hectares of vineyards and an average annual wine of about 500 million bottles, which is recognized as the world's largest wine producing area. Bordeaux, almost all Bordeaux wines are made from a blend of different grape varieties, mainly Caben-Sauvignon with a certain percentage of Merlot and Caben-Li-Fran.

When people think of Bordeaux, their first impression is probably that Bordeaux is famous for its world-famous wines. Some people would say, apart from bottles of wine labeled "bordeaux", what else can we talk about in Bordeaux? In fact, behind the bottles of Bordeaux wines, there is a long history of brewing and cultivating wine culture in the Bordeaux region. Bordeaux wine is the embodiment of the land of Bordeaux, and wine deserves to be the world ace of Bordeaux's civilization.

Bordeaux produces some of the world's finest and most enduring wines, with the best wines aged for more than 100 years. It also produces young, early-maturing, fruity, sweet wines that are inexpensive and suitable for everyday drinking. Bordeaux is also one of the top white wine regions, with many of its white wines aged in oak and complex and durable. Sauterne, in the southwest of Bordeaux, is known for producing some of the best noble rot sweet white wines.

Most of Bordeaux's vineyards are not named one by one, as in Burgundy, but usually a piece of land owned by an individual, with a castle or house built on the land. Such estates are called châteaux or wineries. Over the years, the winery would sell or buy some land, and the size of each winery would change. For example, the Chateaupetrus in the Pomerol region since 1969. The area of the vineyards has increased by about 50%. So the name of the winery is more like a brand than a specific vineyard. There are more than 8,000 different châteaux in the Bordeaux region. It is only recently that the last small group of wineries have put their names on the label to show off their brand.

In the 1st century AD, Bordeaux began to grow grapes. Bordeaux's wine industry also began to grow rapidly. From the 12th century, Duchess Aline Goldschmidt, Duchess of Aquitaine (including the Bordeaux region), married King Henry II of England. Bordeaux became a British territory, and the wine merchants who distributed Bordeaux were able to enjoy tax deductions. Almost half of all Bordeaux wine is exported to the UK. In the 16th-17th centuries. Savvy Dutch merchants also came here to trade wine and, most importantly, brought with them the technology of reclamation from the sea, which brought the formerly low-lying and waterlogged Médoc land to the surface, which is now one of the best vineyards.

In 1855, the French Bordeaux wine classification system was considered the bible of wine in the minds of many people. Many wine lovers look to him for the Bordeaux winery. I don't know if people always have to line up a large category of products in their hearts, and a grading system has been produced since 1663. But it's not officially released yet. This classification is used to determine the quality and price of the wines, based on the four premiercru of Bordeaux at the time. Margaux, Latour, Haut-Brion, Lafite-Rothschild.

In the 20th century, the rapid development of the wine industry, Bordeaux also ushered in more opportunities and challenges, more emerging markets generated great demand for Bordeaux wines, and the rapid development of New World wines also forced some Bordeaux wineries to abandon their traditions and begin to try to make more wines that meet the needs of the market.

In 1855, France was under the reign of Napoleon III. King III wanted to take advantage of the Paris World's Fair as an opportunity to promote Bordeaux's wines to the world, and he wanted the wines of the whole country to participate in the exhibition. He asked the Bordeaux Wine Chamber to prepare an exhibition to introduce Bordeaux wines and classify Bordeaux wineries. It's like poking a hornet's nest, because all the wineries are self-righteous, and there can only be one winner. So the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce entrusted the responsibility to the Syndicat ofCourtiers, an official organization of wine wholesalers, who had divided all the wineries into five tiers, one of which included every Gironde wine producer. Two weeks later, the Syndicat of Courtiers came up with their classifications, which included 58 wineries, 4 first-class, 12 second-class, 14 third-class, 11 fourth-class and 17 fifth. The first class wineries are: Lafite-Rothschild, Latour, Margaux and Haut-Brion. Almost all of the Grade Cru are from the Médoc, with the exception of Haut-Brion, from the Graff appellation. The fact that all the wineries are concentrated on the left bank of Bordeaux and the Chevalblanc on the right bank, which was already famous in the 18th century, is not included, which is a very limited point in the classification system.

Within this classification system, there are also priorities for wineries of the same level, such as Mouton-Rothschild (Mouton) is the first place in the second class of wineries. But this approach has drawn a lot of criticism. In September 1855, the Syndicat of Courtiers sent a letter to the Bordeaux Wine Chamber explaining that there was no precedence within the same rank, and the Chamber revised the list to put the matter to rest in alphabetical order within the Unified Domaine.

Since 1855, there have been many changes in the name of the winery, the owner, the vineyard and even the quality of the wine. There are now 61 wineries in the estate. Of course, even if the winery changes its name, if it is historically a Graded Vineyard, it will still maintain its status as a Prestige Vineyard. The only change was in 1973, when Mouton Rothschild was upgraded from a second class to a first class thanks to Baron Philipperothschild's efforts. It has also formed the ~~-"Five Famous Villages" that are now known in the world.

After that, the Graff region and St. ? The Emilion region was also classified in the middle of the last century, although it was not divided into five grades as in the Médoc. All of these wineries are called "Classified Cru Cru Wineries" and the words "grandcruclasse" are visible on the label.

Because Lin Yu has ties with many families and consortiums in Europe and the United States, Lin Yu also has a batch of precious wines in his European estate, including the only few precious red wines left in the world.

Because of this, Lin Yu acquired a winery in Bordeaux, France. Some of them were taken away by Lin Yu for a long time.

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"You seem to have a lot of embarrassments, huh?" Although Lin Yu was taught in his heart, his face looked even more disdainful, and he smiled: "It seems that you were probably also a romantic person back then, right?" Otherwise, how could there be so much emotion? He directly ignored the elder Bush's angry gaze, and said with a smile, "Why don't you tell me carefully about the affairs of your back then, anyway, you are going to be a person in the ground, what are you afraid of?" You say, don't you? ”

"Get out!" Bush Sr. laughed and scolded: "It seems that people are right, a person must not give him too much face, otherwise he will not be able to control it, you kid is simply a representative of this kind of person." I really regret talking to you so privately now. He paused for a moment, then said, "But it doesn't matter, I'm going down soon, hehe, I'll have a good relationship with you now, and I'll live in your wine estate in the future, and drink you poor." Let's see if you kid will be rampant or not. ”

"And, you are welcome to my winery, and you can drink whatever you want when the time comes!" Lin Yu doesn't care, drink, how much can you drink? You won't make me bankrupt if you drink to death, so what's there to be afraid of?

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