Chapter 954: Winery and Winemaking (Ask for a Monthly Pass, Ask for a Subscription, Ask for a Recommendation)
The days in bed were boring, and there was not much entertainment other than cranky and flirtatious with Loriss and Scarlett. As for Isabella, since the last incident, this girl finally seems to have opened her mind, and she has begun to consciously stop being alone with Soram.
Although Solam is a little sorry for this, he doesn't feel anything, people have boyfriends.
On the fifth day, Soram finally couldn't bear it anymore, and if he lay down any longer, Soram felt like he was going to grow mushrooms. In the end, Isabella had to find someone to make a wheelchair.
Speaking of which, Solam didn't expect that there was a wheelchair in this place. Although it looks a bit rudimentary, and it is all wooden, even the wheels are there, which is quite uncomfortable to make.
However, Solam is very happy, his upper body can move now, but the lower body is still a little uncontrollable, and his nerves have not completely recovered. It is precisely because of this that Soram is even more idle. If it was just that he was paralyzed before, he would be lying on the bed and lying on the bed, anyway, it would be like this, and it would make no difference if he couldn't get out.
But once he could move, Solam's restless heart could no longer hold back.
After being pushed out of the house for the first time, Solam was mesmerized by what he saw.
Looking out through the door of the house, Solam saw that the house he was in was at the top of a river valley, and on the side facing the valley, there was a large red clay terrace, on which were slowly covered with grape trellises, and by this time all the ordinary shelves were full of fruit.
The purple grapes are particularly attractive, and there are many workers picking the grapes under the trellises. On the other side of the house is a large flat land, which is a little sloping, and there are grape trellises, but the grapes on it are all white grapes.
And in terms of the rally, it is more than a notch worse than the grapes in the river valley.
This is Isabella's home and where Isabella's family has lived for generations. It's just that now this place has declined, and this decline began a hundred or two hundred years ago.
In the past, Isabella's family did not actually live here, and it was once just one of many estates in the family. It's just that with the slow decline, many industries have been sold off. This has always been the best wine-producing estate for the Isabella family, so it was seen as an opportunity for the family to rise, so it was never sold.
It was also because of this that Isabella's family eventually moved their residence here. It's just that they can no longer afford to expand their homes, so they can only use the former holiday villa as their main home.
That is, the hut behind Solam.
From a general point of view, the "cottage" of Isabella's family is not small. A house of 1,000 square meters can be so small, the whole villa has two floors, and there is an attic on the top. There are nine rooms in total, and except for one large and two small master rooms, the other six are guest rooms.
There is a living room on each floor, plus behind the main house, there is a small building for slaves, and a small garden at the back. If calculated in this way, how small can the area of more than 2,000 square meters be?
It's a pity that Isabella's family is a nobleman, and they are nobles with a long history, so such a house seems too small. The house of such an aristocrat in the countryside is only so large that it is absolutely impossible to satisfy the visiting guests.
And the dilemma of Isabella's family is not only that, this house is indeed small in the country estate of the aristocracy, but for the family situation that is already declining, the annual cost of maintaining this manor is also a large number.
Not to mention, in order to ensure the family's dealings with the outside world, the family must also maintain decency, and a lot of money is used to prepare those gorgeous clothes and jewelry that actually have no practical effect, and other things that represent the nobility.
And none of these things can be realized!
There are such rules among the nobility, and there are some things that are symbols of nobility and cannot be easily violated.
For example, nobles must have servants, even Isabella's family is like this, they still have to ensure that there are more than 20 servants in the family. Of course, some of them are temporary workers, these people are farmers on the edge of the estate, although they work in Isabella's house, but it is only a short job, and many times they have their own livelihood.
And the gorgeous clothes and jewelry of the nobles were as necessary as the servants. And even if these things die poor, they can't be taken out and pawned. Because once discovered, then it also means that the dignity of the nobility is lost.
So don't look at Isabella dressed so glamorously outside, but when she is at home, she is no different from a village girl, after all, those gorgeous clothes are too easy to break in real daily life, and it is impossible for nobles to wear torn clothes.
Isabella was very optimistic about this, because aristocratic families like theirs were not small in Touscent. The aristocracy is not all rich, there is a gap between the rich and the poor, and the aristocracy is certainly no exception.
Some aristocratic families who did not run well did not do a good job in their daily lives, and they were not as good as those of a medium-sized businessman. No way, the nobles are too interested in face. For example, Isabella's family, if they didn't have so many servants, so much unnecessary pomp and exquisiteness, they could actually live very well.
But they can't, no one is a fool, of course they can see that they will live a comfortable life by doing so, but the status of nobility limits them. Isabella also agrees with this, if they lose the dignity of the nobility, in the eyes of those of them who have received an orthodox aristocratic education, it is to trample the glory of their ancestors into the mud, which is more uncomfortable for the nobles than killing them.
Sitting in a wheelchair, Soram plucked a white grape from a fallen branch and threw it into his mouth.
"Hiss~~~" The white grapes were not ripe, and they almost soured Solam's teeth.
Isabella leaned back and fell back at the sight of Soram's movements.
"Hahaha, at this time, these white grapes are not ripe! You can't eat it until a month later. Hey, here you go, the ordinary, even in the whole of Bowkeland is famous. ”
At the end of the laugh, Isabella took out a bunch of purple plump grapes from a middle-aged woman's frame and handed it to Solam, and the middle-aged woman had been walking with her head down and carrying a heavy frame without paying attention to who was coming, and after seeing that it was Isabella who was taking something from her frame, she immediately smiled and saluted Isabella.
It seems that Isabella is still quite respected.
This time the grapes were much better, not only sweet, but also juicy, and the flesh also had a very rich fragrance, which was very delicious.
Soram spat out the grape pits and said to Isabella, who had just said goodbye to the middle-aged woman.
"This grape is really good, the wine must be good, so why is your family so poor?"
Of course, this is Solam's nonsense, he doesn't know what grape wine is good, he just instinctively thinks that such delicious grape wine must be very good.
"If only it were that simple." Isabella suddenly felt depressed.
It's not difficult to make wine, really, almost every family in Towcente makes wine, but it's hard to make it well. It is precisely because the Towson family makes wine that the country is very picky about wine.
Making good wine is a very tedious and talent-oriented job. There are two professions that are most respected in Towsonte, the first of course is knighthood, and there is no boy who does not want to become a knight himself.
And the second is a good winemaker.
It takes talent to be a knight, and it's even more necessary to be a good winemaker. To be a good winemaker, you must first have an extraordinary sense of smell. Whether a glass of wine is good or not, you can basically guess it by smelling it.
And the top winemakers can even tell the origin, vintage and characteristics of that glass of wine just by smelling it.
The second is the sense of taste, which is also the most irresistible part of wine, a good wine will not have only one taste, the taste of a good wine must have layers, and even in the way and time of drinking, wine can present a variety of flavors.
In order to make such a good sake with multiple flavors, you must first have a tongue that can recognize these flavors.
There are absolutely very few people with the above two talents, and most people's tongues are actually not very sensitive, such as Solam, even if he is given the best wine to drink, he will not be able to taste any good.
But even in the beginning, people with these two talents do not necessarily make good winemakers, and tasters can look forward to it. Although wine tasters are relatively rare, they are not rare compared to good winemakers.
The real difficulty lies in the back, winemaking is a very old skill, the doorway of which can not be said in three days, and there are many variables in it, and the top winemakers need to not only master each link, but also be able to control those variables according to the air, temperature, environment, and time.
A big part of this requires talent. There was once a mage who had the whimsical idea to subdivide the steps of winemaking and make wine in the most standard way, hoping to make perfect wines, but unfortunately, the wines that were made in this way were disliked by all tasters, thinking that those wines had no soul.
Although I don't understand why wine pulls the soul, it also shows that winemaking is really, really talented.
And people with this talent are too rare. Isabella's family also used to have their own winemakers, and those winemakers have always served Isabella's family, but when the Isabella family began to decline, their winemakers died......
A good winemaker is a top resource that all wineries must grasp, and it is too difficult for the Isabella family to find a winemaker again and ensure the inheritance of the family winemaker. As a result, the business of the estate became worse and worse.
It is not difficult to train a qualified winemaker, but it is difficult to train a good winemaker. As a result, the once famous Lenster wine declined. It can only be reduced to a third-rate winery, and this kind of winery is everywhere in Towcente.
By now, Ranster has basically given up winemaking, and can only be used as a material provider, and their grapes are good.
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