After making a phone call and explaining that he was going back later, Su Zhen and Kate boarded a plane to France together and came to the first stop of this trip to France, Bordeaux, the world-famous wine country, the fourth largest city in France known as Little Paris.

However, although it is the fourth largest city, in fact, the population of this city is less than 1 million, and most people in France are reluctant to live in big cities, so even the largest city, the population of the capital Paris is only about two million, and its permanent population is not even as large as the number of tourists who come to travel.

However, it was still early before the start of the Bleiburg Wine Challenge when they arrived in France, so Su Zhen and Kate had plenty of time to explore this beautiful place.

"The scenery here is so beautiful," Kate said, leaning on Su Zhen and looking at the beautiful wine estate in front of her.

Su Zhen nodded, the scenery here is really good, and the climate is also very warm and comfortable, you can see lush vineyards everywhere around the city, the scale is large, the number is far more than Su Zhen saw in Niagara, but it is not surprising that the famous Lafite, Latour, Margaux, and Hongyanrong wineries in the world are all here, and the only super first-class winery in the world... The Lysalus winery is here, and at this moment Su Zhen and Kate are accompanied by Eck, visiting this ancient winery.

In his previous life, Su Zhen knew a little about the five first-class wineries of Bordeaux such as Lafite, but he knew a little about this super-first-class winery that surpassed the five major wineries. I didn't hear of it at all, and it wasn't until I arrived here and listened to Eck's introduction that I realized that there was such a winery in Ludao, and the wine produced by this winery was also very unique, a white sweet wine called "noble rot".

As the name suggests, with the word rot, it is naturally related to rot, of course, not really rotten, but in the case of late harvest of grapes. It was affected by a mold called noble mold. The grapes shrank and mold, which reduced the moisture content of the grapes and increased the sugar content, resulting in the famous "noble rot wine".

And the appearance of this wine is the same as the appearance of ice wine. It's very fortuitous. In the early days. Late-harvested grapes are usually discarded as soon as they are affected by mold, until a Hungarian grower named Tokaj tries to make wine from this moldy grape. It was discovered that the wine produced was unusually sweet, resulting in this strange white sweet wine.

However, Su Zhen, who is wine blind, complained in his heart, didn't he say that the top wines are all sugar-free dry red? Why do you know that some of the best wineries you have heard of produce all sweet wines? Isn't this scientific?

After visiting several famous wineries, Su Zhen and Kate also feasted on some of the French cuisine. In addition to wine, Bordeaux is also an important source of foie gras and caviar, and the seafood here is also world-famous.

A few days later, the Bleiburg Wine Challenge, one of the world's largest wine competitions, began, and Su Zhen thought that the competition with thousands of bottles of red wine from 38 countries in the world and hundreds of sommeliers and wine lovers should be a very interesting event.

And when it came to the beginning of the wine challenge, Su Zhen found that it was not the same thing as what he thought, the competition was quite grand, but it was really not interesting, looking at a group of gentleman-like creatures, one by one spitting out all kinds of professional terms that Su Zhen did not know, which made Su Zhen, who was basically drunk blind, embarrassed? Su Zhen has not participated in the press conference of those famous wineries, but those wineries are more facing ordinary people, whether in discussion or introduction, they are very easy to understand, and this wine challenge is not like that at all, standing with this group of professional sommelier-style people, Su Zhen felt like a dirt bun, and Kate next to him also twitched the corners of her mouth, saying that she didn't understand what these people were talking about at all, so before the game was over, Su Zhen said hello to Ek, Then he pulled Kate, who was also eager to leave, and fled this 'terrifying' place together. If you have this American time to listen to the heavens here, why not enjoy the Bordeaux cuisine with Kate?

The wine competition lasted for three days, and after Su Zhen and Kate went on the first day, they did not want to go again and continued to visit this beautiful city, from the cheap shops of St. Caitlin Road to the Bordeaux Wine House in Place Cometti, leaving their footprints, until Eck brought good news three days later.

The awards of the Bleiburg Wine Challenge are divided into three awards: gold, silver and bronze, and basically the wines that can win the award account for less than one-third of the total participating wines.

And this time, two of the three ordinary wines that Eke brought to the competition were ready for sale, and they all won the silver medal, which means that these two red wines have entered the sequence of high-end wines, which makes Eke extremely happy, and the winery will only sell these two red wines in the future, which is enough to ensure profitability, and the remaining one is not ready to be sold to the outside world Ice wine has won the gold medal, which also means that Su Zhen's winery in Niagara has become a first-class winery, but Su Zhen actually doesn't care too much about this rating, Now that the game is over, he and Kate are going to leave Bordeaux and go to Paris and other places to have a good time, especially the French castles, which are also quite famous in the world.

For the trip to Paris, Su Zhen and Kate are quite looking forward to it, but the things they are looking forward to are obviously different, Su Zhen is looking forward to a woman in Paris. Romantic and elegant, while Kate was looking forward to the Champs-Élysées and the Eiffel Tower.

But after arriving in Paris, Su Zhen found that his whole person was not good, the women in Paris were indeed as fashionable and elegant as the legend, but should the perfume smell on Nima's body be so strong? Su Zhen can ask from afar The strong smell of perfume on the body of the locals in Paris, regardless of men and women, makes Su Zhen, who has lived in the fresh air environment of Wyoming for a long time, feel a little unbearable, although several of his women also use perfume, but they are generally relatively fresh and elegant perfumes, and there will be such a strong smell at all, MD. Do these French people have to pour a whole bottle of perfume on their bodies when they go out? It turns out that the name of the perfume capital is not only due to the production of perfumes. It is estimated that it has something to do with the hobby that everyone likes to spray perfume on their bodies, and the taste is really heavy.

"What's wrong? What does it look like? Kate looked at Su Zhen, who had been frowning all the time, and asked strangely, at this moment the two of them were strolling through the western section of the famous Champs-Élysées, which is also a concentration of first-class clothing stores and perfume stores. Kate saw Su Zhen with such an expression. I thought he was dissatisfied with his shopping behavior. Anyway, she didn't buy much, completely ignoring the dozen bags in the hands of a few bodyguards behind her.

"It's nothing, I can't stand the air here," Su Zhen replied a little sullenly. When shopping, Su Zhen also saw a lot of beautiful French girls, but whenever he staggered with these French girls, Su Zhen felt that his stomach was churning, and he felt that he was going to vomit out the overnight meal, and the taste was too strong.

"Air? What happened to the air? Kate is used to being in the city, and she doesn't think the air here is any different from that in Los Angeles, the only difference is probably the faint fragrance in the air.

"Don't you think it's too fragrant here, it just makes me a little sick to my stomach," Su Zhen rubbed his nose and said.

Kate was stunned when she heard this, and then she was very happy, and she couldn't close her mouth with a smile for a while, she didn't expect Su Zhen to be allergic to the perfume smell here, it was so interesting.

"Sue, are you allergic to perfume smells?" Kate asked with a smile, but when she thought about it, she usually used perfume, and she had never seen Su Zhen like this.

"It's not that I'm allergic to perfume, but the perfume smell here is too heavy, I prefer a sober and elegant fragrance, and I'm not used to such a heavy fragrance." Su Zhen shook his head helplessly and said, "Why do you say that the French like perfume so much?" ”

"Hehe, there is actually a historical reason for this, do you want to listen to it?" Kate said with a smile when she heard this.

"Oh? How so? Su Zhen asked with some curiosity when he heard this.

"In the early days, Europeans had a very good concept of hygiene, as early as the ancient Greek and Roman periods, people regarded regular bathing as a necessary means of maintaining good health, and also built large public baths, and at the same time, the ancient Romans also built a perfect drainage system in the city, which could remove the filth of the whole city in time, but with the decline of the Romans, the situation began to change," Kate paused and continued, "The period between the fall of Rome and the 19th century was the most chaotic period in all of Europe. Wars have hardly stopped, thus dragging down the construction of the city, the whole of Europe is dirty, and the population of Paris, has become a typical one, at that time the people of Paris poured all kinds of living filth directly into the street, and even pedestrians may be accidentally poured into the dung by the citizens living in the building" Speaking of this, Kate couldn't help laughing, "At that time, Paris was not the perfume capital now, but the smelly capital, In the 18th century, when the American ambassador Benjamin Franklin went to Paris, he was even fainted. ”

When Su Zhen heard this, he felt a little incredible, and he couldn't imagine what a clean and tidy Paris would be like today, "But what does this have to do with perfume?" Is it possible to rinse the city with perfume? ”

"No, no, of course not," Kate said with a smile, "but it does matter, because the city was dirty, which led to the plague in the 15th century, and people began to look for the cause of the plague, and the bath was unfortunately shot, and the doctor at the time."

It is believed that water weakens the function of the organs, and when the pores are fully opened when taking a hot bath, toxic air enters the body. If there is a layer of dirt on the body, it will resist the invasion of diseases. So from that time on, the French began to not bathe, and for the sake of cleanliness, they wiped their faces with a white cloth every morning, but did not wash with water. During the reign of Louis XIV, the most clean lady bathed only twice a year, and Louis XIV himself was carefully bathed under the guidance of a doctor, and it is said that he bathed only once a year. Louis XV only took three baths in his life, one was the birth day, the second was the wedding day, and the third was the burial, and the result of not bathing is needless to say, since then, the French began to devote themselves to the study of perfume, and since then it has been out of control, with the support of successive rulers, the French perfume industry has become more and more developed, and has become the world of perfume kingdom. ”

Su Zhen, who listened to Kate's tirade, was dumbfounded, he didn't expect that a small perfume could be involved in so many things, "But how do you know so much?" ”

"Hmph, I was a top student at Oxford University, majoring in French literature and Russian literature, and of course I have a deep study of French history," Kate raised her cute head proudly.

"Ahem" Just when Kate was arrogant, Su Zhen suddenly coughed dryly, looked around, and then sneakily leaned into Kate's ear and whispered, "Is that the current French people don't take a bath all year round, otherwise why would they spray such a strong perfume?" ”

"Flutter" Kate laughed directly when she heard this, and glanced at Su Zhendao, "Of course it can't be, the French are not stupid, most French people are still very hygienic, they often take a bath, and spraying perfume is just a habit that has been cultivated, but it is true that Parisians don't like to take a bath, but not because of the Middle Ages, but although Paris is the capital of France, it is the most water-scarce place in the whole of France, so many apartments rented in Paris are not equipped with bathrooms, and even if they do, they are extremely simple, That's why there are false rumors that all French people don't like to bathe."

Su Zhen was amazed after listening to Kate's words, not only amazed by the strange Frenchman, but also marveled at Kate's erudition, worthy of being a high-achieving student, but it was different, and he was really taught.

However, after such an experience, Su Zhen completely lost interest in French women, and thinking of what if he was with a woman who hadn't taken a shower for a few months, Su Zhen felt goosebumps all over his body. (To be continued......)