The Niagara Peninsula is located between Lakes Ontario and Lake Erie in the Great Lakes region, the southernmost point of the Canadian province of Ontario, and it is separated from the state of New York by the Niagara River.

Niagara is one of Canada's leading wine regions, with more than 5,000 hectares of vineyards, 90% of Canada's icewine is produced here, and 10% is produced in British Columbia.

Of course, these are all blindness given to Su Zhen by Frank of the University of California, in fact, Su Zhen didn't even know where Niagara was before.

The Luthor family's Ice Wine Winery is located at the northernmost tip of the Niagara Peninsula, close to the banks of the Niagara River and Lake Ontario. It is across the lake from Toronto, the capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. (Actually, Lake Ontario is too big...... Can't see the other side at all)

The plane landed at an airfield near the town of Niagara. There was already a car waiting at the airport and drove directly to the winery.

As soon as you enter the winery, the first thing that catches your eye is the endless vines, the rows of vines are dotted very neatly, and Su Zhen has seen the difference between the grape trellis in China before, the grape trellis here is connected by a rope to a wooden stake, the grapevines climb on the stake, and then grow along the rope, very "tree" feeling, at this time the vine has been hung on the grapevine, but they are still green.

Seeing these grapes, Professor Frank gave a lesson to everyone, the winery uses Riesling grapes native to Germany, this grape prefers a shady place, which is very suitable for Canada's cold continental climate, and this grape grows slowly and has a long ripening cycle because it lives in colder regions, but it is also the advantage of this seemingly disadvantaged that makes it particularly outstanding in terms of aroma of winemaking, and its fruity aroma is unique among all grapes, whether it is making ice wine or other wines, it has its uniqueness.

There is not much to say about the vineyard land, like all vineyard land, it is sandy clay, but due to the good environmental protection of the Niagara region, the whole island does not use any pesticides, and there is no other pollution, so the quality of the product is very good.

After the most lucrative under the leadership of the manager of the winery, he came to a well, and the manager told everyone that the irrigation water of the entire vineyard was not from Lake Ontario, but from the deep groundwater collected by himself, in fact, most of the vineyards were dry like this, after all, although the water quality of Lake Ontario was also good, it was obviously worse than the mineral-rich groundwater, and he said that he hit a bucket of water and showed it to everyone, Professor Frank dipped his finger in a little and tasted it, and nodded to Su Zhen.

After looking at the vineyards, I visited the winery under the guidance of the winery's manager, of course, it is a winery, but the scale is not large, it is more like a workshop, but unlike those small workshops, the equipment inside is very cashy, and the maintenance is very good, it is simply spotless.

There is also a workshop next door to make barrels made of native Canadian oak. However, it is not the time of production, so there are few people, and the manager says that the winery will only start to get busy until the grapes are ripe around November.

After visiting the winery, it is the wine cellar, the wine cellar is located in the basement of the entire winery building, after going down to the wine cellar, you will find that this wine cellar is very huge, the thousands of barrels of wine left in the wine cellar are placed in the innermost, and there are several rows of wine shelves near the mouth of the cellar, on which the bottles of wine are neatly placed, and there are thousands of bottles of wine by sight.

According to the introduction, the winery also produces not only ice wine, but also other ordinary wines, because not every year the grapes can be frozen, so when there is a year that is not frozen, they will also produce ordinary wines, and these wines are of good quality.

At Su Zhen's suggestion, Frank began to taste the red wine, and Su Zhen himself poured a little ice wine to taste, sweet, with a strong fruity aroma, and the kind he drank by chance in his previous life was completely the same as the world, so that he who had never liked to drink liked this taste.

Later, Frank told Su Zhen that the purchase of this winery for 16 million is indeed a great value for money, the quality of the winery is very good, in fact, the market value of those cellared wines alone is more than five million, of course, the price is not so calculated, and it is not so easy to sell those wines, but it can be considered that it can be sold as a pair to those restaurants that cooperate with their own ranches.

Now that it's OK, the rest is easy, just leave it to Erica and Luthor and his lawyer to talk to.

Su Zhen and Frank swayed into the vineyard, and Frank looked here, look at the difference, Su Zhen went straight to the well, the fence of the well is not high, it is more than one meter, for Su Zhen, who is already nearly one meter and a half tall, it is not a big problem, he stretched out his head and looked into the dark well, the black and swarthy can not see the bottom at all, it seems to be very deep, there is a bucket by the well, see that there is no one around, turn around and enter the space, and soon carry a bucket of water out, Su Zhen has tried many times, whether it is to take something out of the space, Or put things in, you have to go in person, you can't put things in and take them out after a year like in the novel, which makes Su Zhen quite regretful, and makes Su Zhen very suspicious that it takes a certain level of mental power or something to achieve that like in the novel.

I poured water into the well, and after a while I heard a loud noise, and even if I didn't count, I knew how deep the well was.

Just when Su Zhen released the water, Erica and the others had already negotiated the contract, and all that was left was to sign and pay.

After everything was done, Luthor handed over all the keys to the winery house to Su Zhen, telling Su Zhen that everything in the manor was new, and the living utensils in the house were all new, and they could be lived in directly, and the staff was also ready-made, but the management had to rely on Su Zhen himself, and after explaining, he left with the original manager.

After Luthor left, Su Zhen gathered all the employees of the winery and had a short exchange, calming everyone because of the uneasiness caused by the change of boss, and the best way to appease everyone's emotions was naturally a salary increase, after promising that the salaries of all personnel would increase by 10% on the original basis, all staff returned to their posts happily.

After getting rid of the ordinary staff, Su Zhen began to have a headache for the manager, originally Su Zhen didn't want to change the manager, but the other party was a member of the Luthor family, and after the winery was sold to Su Zhen, he didn't want to manage the winery anymore, the other party was a free man, and Su Zhen couldn't force him to stay, Su Zhen didn't say whether he would manage the winery, even if he would, he didn't want to tie himself up, isn't it?

When Su Zhen was thinking about whether to find a headhunter to help find a manager, Professor Frank on the side recommended a candidate to Su Zhen, who was a student of Frank and a middle manager of a large wine company in the United States, who had been engaged in this work for nearly ten years, but had not been promoted, and was seeking a new way out recently.

As soon as Su Zhen heard this, someone brought a pillow when he dozed off. Anyway, if I want to stay in Canada for a few days, I will ask Professor Frank to contact him, and if he wants, he will come over to meet at the winery.

Dinner was served in Niagara Town, a very beautiful town, the main road of the town is called "Queen Street", and the streets are lined with shops and Victorian buildings, quaint and elegant. Taste the famous handmade chocolates of the region, full of flavor.

The only thing that disappointed Su Zhen was Erica, a professional girl, although she was a little older, she was also a very drifting girl, but unfortunately she had a cold face all day long, as if everyone owed her money.

Su Zhen tried all kinds of ways to make this big iceberg laugh, but as a result, people looked like they were doing business, and they didn't loosen up at all, which made Su Zhen quite frustrated. At the end, he almost gritted his teeth and asked, "Won't you laugh?" As a result, Erica pulled a smile that was uglier than crying, and Su Zhen was so frightened that she almost sat on the ground.

After the worst, Su Zhen was helpless, and returned to the winery with a depressed mood and a big iceberg after taking advantage of the excitement and returning from the bustle.