Chapter 68: The Old Wine Blending of the Night Banquet
Na Ronghai smiled at Guo Songlin, patted him on the shoulder and said, "This matter, it's a long story, let's sit down and eat slowly, Xiaofu, you go and tell the waiter, that the people are all here, and you can serve the food." ”
"Oh, okay, that's always." Fu Chunxue hurriedly walked out of the private room.
"Now that everyone is here, let's take a seat!" Na Ronghai said with a smile.
Hu Chongnan walked to the table one by one, and said to Li Zihui with a hippie smile: "I should be a big person, it turns out to be our big sister Li!" Sister Li, we haven't drunk together for a long time, are you going to accompany my brother and me today to have a few drinks? ”
"Oh, what did the sixth brother say! I'm a big guy! Don't say that, I'm afraid of going out and flashing my waist again. Hehehe......" Li Zihui picked up the wet wipes on the plate, covered her mouth and laughed.
Seeing that everyone was sitting down, Na Ronghai looked around, and suddenly said: "Oh, I almost forgot, Dalin, where is my bottle of old wine, hurry up and bring it." ”
Guo Songlin hurriedly stood up, ran to the coffee table, picked up the bottle of Linghe old wine, returned to the table and handed it to Na Ronghai.
"Yo! What kind of baby is this, let my sister too! We've seen it for a long time. Li Zihui quipped.
"Silly baby, isn't it just a bottle of old wine, nothing unusual, you can watch it if you want to see it." Na Ronghai put the bottle of old wine on the turntable, twisted the turntable and turned the wine in front of Li Zihui.
Li Zihui picked up the wine bottle and looked at it, and said: "Isn't this just a bottle of wine that came out before, what's so strange, I remember my father's place, there are still people who store wine like this." If you want to drink it, I'll steal a few bottles for you when you go back, hehe, can't let our old man know! ”
"What do you say? The old man still has a lot of such wine there? Are you telling you true or false? Don't fool me, since you said it, I'll take it seriously" Rong Hai looked at Li Zihui with a look of surprise.
"What I'm saying is true, but I don't understand it, and if you're really interested, you'll come with me to the old man's place one day. Oh, not yet, wait until an old man is not at home, my mother will not care if she is at home. Li Zihui looked a little embarrassed at this time.
Hu Chongnan said on the side: "Okay, you two don't study how to steal the old man's old wine there, it's like conspiring to commit a crime." Don't say anything else, shouldn't you open this bottle of broken wine, aren't you just here for us all to taste! Now that the table has been opened, the wine is naturally going to be opened. Don't hide there and open a bar! Do you want me to open it for you? ”
Na Ronghai turned around and called the waiter on duty next to him, said something to him, and then handed the bottle of Linghe old wine to Guo Songlin, and said, "Dalin, you open the wine." ”
Guo Songlin took the old liquor and found the bottle driver from the table, the previous liquor bottle cap packaging was the old-fashioned pressure metal bottle cap, there is a rubber pad between the bottle cap and the bottle mouth, although the design is simple, but it is very practical. It can fully ensure that the wine in the bottle is isolated from the outside air, that is, the wine left over from that era will basically not volatilize.
Guo Songlin opened the cap of the wine bottle with a bottle driver, and a fragrant aroma of wine suddenly filled the entire private room.
"Uh-huh! This wine tastes good, not bad, Dalin, don't pour it yet, let me smell it. Na Ronghai took the wine bottle from Guo Songlin's hand, sniffed it again and again, and looked intoxicated.
At this time, the waiter who went out walked in from outside, holding two wine decanters in his hands, walked to the table, and put them in front of Na Ronghai.
Na Ronghai seemed to suddenly think of something at this time, and hurriedly said to Guo Songlin: "Dalin, didn't you bring two bottles of Wuliangye there?" ”
"Yes! What's wrong with that uncle? Guo Songlin asked with some puzzlement.
"Bring me a bottle, I'll be useful." Na Ronghai waved at Guo Songlin.
Although Guo Songlin didn't understand Na Ronghai's intentions, he had no choice but to nod to Fu Chunxue, who was sitting on the side.
Fu Chunxue immediately unpacked a bottle of Wuliangye liquor, unpacked the wine outside, and then put the bottle in front of Na Ronghai.
Na Ronghai didn't let others open the wine this time, and directly unscrewed the cap of Wuliangye's wine bottle by himself, and then poured the wine syrup in the bottle into one of the red wine decanters.
Everyone looked at Rong Hai's movements, and they were very puzzled, how could there be a red wine decanter to drink liquor, what was Rong Hai going to do?
When Na Ronghai poured a whole bottle of Wuliangye into the red wine decanter, he first poured the bottle of Lao Linghe into the white wine decanting glass in front of him a little, then picked up the decanting glass and shook it, then stood up and poured Guo Songlin, Li Zihui, Hu Chongnan and Fu Chunxue respectively, and finally poured a glass for himself.
"Taste the wine first." After Na Ronghai finished speaking, he picked up the cup and tasted it first.
The others watched his movements and each picked up the cup and tasted it.
"Well, this wine tastes good, it seems to have a little sour taste." Hu Chongnan took a sip, and his mouth kept smashing there.
"It's a little sour." Li Zihui also chimed in.
Guo Songlin first took a sip, the feeling of the wine in the tongue and mouth, first spicy, then slowly sweet, then penetrated into the nasal cavity to feel the mellow aroma of the wine, and finally the root of the tongue slightly refluxed acid.
"That's right, that's what we often call the taste of old wine. Let me introduce you to a new way to drink liquor, which is also what I just learned from the old liquor sellers, in fact, it is not a new thing, to put it bluntly, it is blending. It's the first time I've tried to do this today, so you can't bury me! ”
After that, Na Ronghai picked up the bottle of Linghe old wine, and slowly poured the liquor in the bottle into the red wine decanter that filled Wuliangye just now, this time Na Ronghai did not pour the whole bottle into it, but only poured less than one-third of the amount.
Everyone watched this scene with great curiosity, and they didn't know what Rong Hai was doing there.
Feeling that it was almost poured, Na Ronghai put down the old wine bottle of Linghe, picked up the red wine decanter that was almost full of wine, and shook it continuously in his hand.
Hu Chongnan stared at him with big eyes and watched there for a moment, and from time to time he rubbed his red rosacea nose with his hand, and said with some puzzlement: "I said Lao Na, aren't you just mixing the two wines together, what's this, I thought you were going to play tricks for us!" It turned out to be mixed with wine! It's good this time, Wuliangye is not Wuliangye anymore, and Lao Linghe is not Lao Linghe either, it has become fake wine! Hahaha......"
"Get out of the way for me, don't put your mouth full of nonsense, you know a fart! This is called wine aroma mixing, which is a kind of blending method, don't be full of nonsense in Neigada if you don't understand! If you have the ability, when I'm done, don't drink it! Na Ronghai said with the decanter in his hand.
Hu Chongnan was buried by Na Ronghai like this, and he was about to have a seizure, when he heard that this wine would not have his share for a while, he didn't want to say anything more, so he closed his mouth and stopped squeaking.
Guo Songlin also watched it for a long time and knew that this was blending wine, but he had never seen this method of blending with liquor. Guo Songlin often goes to bars, and he also knows that cocktails are made by mixing various liquors and spices. However, these are all products of Western culture, and Chinese wine blending is made from vintages that have been stored for a long time, blended with new wines produced in that year, and then bottled and sealed.
As for Na Ronghai's current blending, it is a blend of two different vintages and not from the same production area, and I don't know where Na Ronghai learned this trick, and I don't know what will happen to the wine after blending.
Guo Songlin's seniority at this table is also the lowest, of course, Fu Chunxue can't be counted. He didn't want to ask anything, so he could only wait and see.
After shaking there for a while, Na Ronghai took Guo Songlin's decanting jug and slowly poured the wine in the red wine decanter in his hand into the decanter.
Picked up the wine in the decanting jug, first poured himself a glass, picked up the wine glass and took a small sip, smashed it and tasted it, and then found that Na Ronghai's eyes lit up, and he seemed to be a little excited and said loudly: "Absolutely, it's amazing!" ”
After Na Ronghai said this, he put the wine in the decanter pot on the glass turntable of the round table, and said, "Waiter, bring a few more white wine glasses." Didn't you guys just drink that unadulterated one, now let's try this again. ”
The waiter on duty quickly brought a few more liquor glasses and distributed them to several people.
Next, everyone brought the decanter pot on the glass turntable, poured a glass each, and then followed the example of Na Ronghai, took a small sip, and savored the taste of the wine.
This time, several people tasted this glass of liquor again, and the expressions on their faces were wonderful.
Especially Hu Chongnan's expression, his eyes were already very big, but at this moment, his eyes are even bigger, and the area of the whites of his eyes has reached a worrying level, and if he stares wider, it is estimated that the eyeballs should fall out of his sockets.
"That good guy of mine! Are you really playing tricks? It's probably the best wine I've ever drunk in my life! Is it because you mixed the two bottles together? After Hu Chongnan finished saying this, he tilted his neck and dried all the liquor in the cup.
"It's delicious." Hu Chongnan eagerly pulled the revolving table with his hands, snatched the decanting jug, and put it next to him, for fear that others would take it away.
"Look at your little bit of energy, as soon as you look good and drink, you start to eat more and occupy more. I've got a big bottle of this here! This dish hasn't come up yet, what do you say you're in a hurry! Na Ronghai smiled and held the red wine decanter in front of him with his hand.
After Guo Songlin tasted it this time, he was also quite surprised, this is simply amazing. How is it possible that the taste of two different origins and different years of liquor mixed together has undergone earth-shaking taste changes!
Judging from his knowledge of baijiu, this situation has already subverted the scope of his knowledge and comprehension of baijiu. I feel the multi-layered taste sensation of wine in my mouth, and I can't express it in words! It's also so delicious......
Li Zihui, who was sitting next to Na Ronghai, gently put the glass of wine on the table, and said to Na Ronghai with a smile: "Although I don't know how to drink liquor, I also know that the glass of wine you made is definitely the best liquor I have ever drunk." ”
Listening to them comment on the liquor they had concocted, Rong Hai was also a little complacent.
At this moment, the door of the private room opened, and two waiters walked in with a dining cart, and the waiter on duty immediately put the plates in the dining cart on the rotating dining table one by one, and kept saying the names of the dishes on the lock.
"Steamed Qingyuan chicken with abalone, classic XO sauce with potpourri fritters, Jiugong dim sum, Cantonese barbecue flavor three pins, spicy fish egg pot, Jinsha shrimp balls, homemade black tofu with eight treasured mushrooms, steamed okra, new poplar branch nectar, scoop up kung fu sea bass, and finally today's case soup, cordyceps flower chicken soup."
The waiter on duty put the small urns that had been loaded in front of everyone.
"Bosses, the dishes are ready, if you need anything else, please feel free to call me." The waiter on duty bent down to the crowd.
At this time, Fu Chunxue took out a red envelope from her pocket, called the waiter on duty, and handed the red envelope to her.
The waiter thanked Fu Chunxue, then put the red envelope in his pocket and continued to stand aside.
Na Ronghai looked at the table full of dishes, smiled and said to Chunxue: "Xiaofu, you ordered all these dishes?" ”
"Well, yes, I don't know if this dish is to your taste, I don't know much about Cantonese cuisine, if you are not satisfied with anything, please bear with me." Fu Chunxue said with a smile at Na Ronghai.
Na Ronghai patted Guo Songlin's shoulder with a smile and said, "You are a good secretary, you think about everything very thoughtfully, it seems that you are very good at choosing people!" ”
"Then the uncle praised it, if you are optimistic, I can let Xiaofu be your full-time secretary, how about it?" Guo Songlin said with a smile.
"Forget it, I don't dare to take people's love, it's better for you to keep it for yourself, I'll just say it casually, you still take it seriously! Hahaha, I'm willing, people don't want to pay for it! You can pull it down! ”
At this time, Hu Chongnan over there answered: "If you don't want that brother, I can reluctantly help with this, or let Xiaofu go to me!" I happen to lack a personal secretary, Xiaofu, would you like to come to me? ”
"I said, "Why are you everywhere! I was boasting about the payment just now, and I was joking with Dalin, why can't you see the height of your eyebrows! Don't keep messing around here, okay, I called Dalin today to have something serious to do, don't you have a little score in your heart? After that Ronghai finished speaking, Hu Chongnan glanced at him.
"Am I not joking? Who is that, Mr. Guo, don't you know who I am, if you have no intentions, don't mind, don't mind! ”
Guo Songlin smiled at that Hu Chongnan and shook his head, indicating that he was fine.