After Sun Wufan left, Ning Xiu went to the cellar of the new house accompanied by Shiro and Shiro.

Aged wines are now stored in cellars. Although this cellar is not as good as the professional cellars of later wine estates, there is no problem with the storage of aged wines.

The cellar is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the climate in Jingzhou is relatively moderate, so it is still very suitable for storing wine.

Juro lit a few oil lamps, and the dark cellar immediately became bright.

The oak barrel was in the most conspicuous place in the cellar, and Ning Xiu walked up to it and motioned for Shichiro to come over and help.

When making the oak barrel, Ning Xiu specially asked the master to leave a small hole in the barrel body and match it with a wooden stopper.

This is both to regularly check the ageing of the wine and to prepare for future pour-overs.

A full barrel of wine can be divided into hundreds of bottles, and although Ning Xiu only made one barrel of wine for experiments, he didn't want any accidents.

The biggest problem with wine making is the long production cycle, and he has shortened the aging period to half a year in order to maximize profits, but he still can't afford to waste this time.

If the wine deteriorates during the aging process, it will be a great blow to Ning Xiu.

Therefore, he ordered the wine samples to be checked regularly to ensure that there were no accidents.

Now that it was close to half a year of aging, Ning Xiu couldn't wait to taste the wine.

Qilang walked to Ning Xiu's side with a wooden tray holding a few porcelain bottles and clay pots, and said curiously: "Third brother, is this wine really brewed?" ”

Ning Xiu smiled faintly: "It's almost the same in terms of time, but you still need to taste it before you can make a conclusion." From now on, you will be my sommelier. ”

"Taste, taster?"

Shichiro was a little stunned, although he was used to some novel words popping out of the third brother's mouth from time to time, he still felt curious when he heard these new words at first glance.

"Well, it's someone who specializes in testing and assessing the color of wine. In the future, after the mass production of our wines, we will definitely need a professional sommelier. ”

There are many factors that determine the quality and taste of wine, such as the quality of the grapes, the local climate, and the storage and brewing conditions.

Even if it is the same wine, the taste will be different due to individual differences in the barrels.

What the sommelier needs to do is to distinguish the different tastes of the wine and grade it.

Ning Xiu's plan is to divide the wine grades into five grades, with the higher the grade, the higher the price.

In this way, it is possible to segment the market and target different target groups.

Wine is the flagship product on which he has high hopes, and there must be no accidents. So the taster must be chosen from among those closest to him.

Daddy is old, it's not good to taste too much wine, and Juro is too young to do this job.

After thinking about it, Ning Xiu found that only Shichiro was the only one who could do the job.

"Third brother, can I just drink?"

Ning Xiu rolled his eyes: "Of course, it's not as simple as just drinking, you need to assess the quality of the wine and grade it, I am going to set the grade of the wine as fifth, and different grades of wine are sold to different people, of course, the price will be quite different." ”

"Can I really do it?"

Shichiro asked timidly.

In this regard, Ning Xiu also hesitated.

But everything has a first time, and if he doesn't let Shichiro try, how do you know he won't be able to?

Later generations of professional sommeliers also started from scratch.

What's more, what he asked Shichiro to do was only to grade the wine according to its quality and taste, and there were not too many harsh requirements.

Ning Xiu felt that Yishiro's ability was definitely competent.

As for the packaging of the wine, Ning Xiu decided to use porcelain bottles and clay pots.

In later generations, when talking about wine, everyone will not hesitate to think of glass bottle packaging, as if red wine is only packaged in glass bottles.

This is not the case.

In the days before glass was made, it was common in Europe to use clay pots to package wine. Pottery and porcelain have the advantage of not having any chemical reactions with the wine, which can affect the taste of the wine.

The same is true for glass at this point.

Later, the reason why glass bottles replaced clay pots and became the standard packaging of wine was because the price of glass was cheaper after mass production, which could save costs. The second is that the color of the wine can be seen in the glass bottle, giving people a strong psychological suggestion.

And in this respect, both clay pots and porcelain vases are much inferior.

Although this is only a small gap, it has led to the innovation of wine packaging.

Of course, Ning Xiu also wants to use glass bottles, but making glass is not something that can be done by patting his head.

As a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, he understands better than anyone the difficulties of making high-quality glass. Those male protagonists in the crossing can make glass with a pat on their heads, it's too nonsense. In terms of the difficulty of production, glass is many times more difficult than cement.

In the absence of glass, of course, alternatives are used, and clay pots and vases are the best choice.

As mentioned earlier, there are two disadvantages of porcelain vases and clay pots in Europe compared with glass, and there is actually only one of them in the Ming Dynasty.

The disadvantage in terms of price is practically non-existent.

Daming was already good at making porcelain and pottery, and the cost was nothing more than clay, glaze and firewood when heated.

The reason why porcelain and pottery will increase the price several times in Europe is because of the rarity of things, and it is difficult for Europe itself to make exquisite ceramics, so it can only be imported from the Ming Dynasty. Second, because of the high transportation cost, the transportation of porcelain is basically by sea, and the cost of a trip down is staggering.

These costs will be passed on to the price of porcelain and pottery.

Combined with the above factors, pottery and porcelain will be so expensive in Europe.

But in Daming, these problems do not exist, and if you do the math, it may be cheaper to use pottery and porcelain to package wine than to use glass.

The only drawback is that the color of the wine cannot be seen from the outside in both packages.

But this is actually nothing, after all, Chinese rice wine and liquor are packaged in clay pots and porcelain bottles. The people of the country have become accustomed to it.

At Ning Xiu's suggestion, Shichiro took a porcelain vase and stood beside Ning Xiu and waited.

Ning Xiu took a deep breath, uncorked the oak barrel, scooped the wine out of the oak barrel with a special wine pick, and then carefully poured it into the porcelain bottle.

This is the first bottle of wine that has been made, and it has a very special significance.

Ning Xiu poured a glass for himself, Qilang, and Shilang, and said with a smile: "Taste it." See how it tastes. ”

Although Juro is too young to drink too much, there is nothing wrong with one glass. As for Shichiro and Ning Xiu, they have nothing to scrupulously about.

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