Chapter 205: Play
Considering that it was rare for his godsister to come here, Li Anran simply did not rush back to Datang. Anyway, there are people to take care of things over there, and they can also play a good deterrent role by throwing their hands and flying up to the upper realm from time to time.
There are about 1,400 wineries throughout California, in almost every county, even the city of San Francisco. But half of those wineries are located in the Napa Valley and Sonoma Valley regions.
Anyone who understands wine knows that the world's famous wine producing areas are all located in the "golden latitude zone" of 35-45 degrees latitude. Bordeaux in France and Napa Sonoma in California are both located near the 44th parallel north latitude, while Italy, Spain, Australia, Chile in South America, and Xinjiang also produce good wines at the same latitude.
Blessed with unique soil, topography, climatic conditions and exquisite brewing technology, Napa has become a brewing industry with the highest international standards. According to Smith, one of the main weekend pastimes for people living in San Francisco's neighborhood is to drive to a winery in Napa or Sonoma.
Although Li Anran and Hu Jing are both owners of a winery at the moment, it does not prevent them from looking for wine, beautiful scenery and even beautiful people in this side of Napa Valley with a playful mentality.
The Mediterranean climate in the Napa Valley makes the temperature of early spring in Napa not too low. In addition, the scenery here is already good, so Li Anran and Hu Jing, who are two people in a car, quickly fell in love with this leisurely trip.
If you want to talk about how to visit this Napa winery. It's actually very simple, just drive along Route 29 and go straight to the roadside, as long as you see a winery on the side of the road, you can go straight in.
Here in Napa, almost every winery is completely different. Whether it is the architectural modeling, the environmental scenery, or the interior decoration style, it can be said that each has its own characteristics.
For visitors to the wineries, of course, visiting the wineries is not only for wine tasting, but also to a large extent to enjoy the beautiful countryside and taste the different winery cultures. So, a lot of people go here by car.
According to Smith, they revealed the so-called "inside information". As the winery is the backbone of Napa's local tourism. So, it's almost never known that there will be police officers stopping cars on the side of the road to check for drunk driving. Of course, there is also a saying that foreigners are more able to drink red wine, and the key to wine tasting lies in a tasting. If you don't drink much, you won't get drunk.
However, there are special circumstances. is like the domestic actor Uncle Ge Youge. In the phone "See You or Leave" directed by Feng Xiaogang, the hero and heroine are very tasteless in the plot of visiting a winery in Napa, and tasting wine is like drinking soda. It's strange if you don't get drunk.
There is also the case that you visit too many wineries in one day, and you taste almost every winery, and at the same time you don't drink very well. Fortunately, in response to this situation, Napa has also made a supporting service, that is, you can hire a car or hire a driver to visit the winery.
Considering that although his alcohol consumption is very good, it is obviously difficult for Hu Jing to say it. Plus come out to play, it's a fun, and you're not short of money. Therefore, Li Anran asked Smith to choose a company with the best reputation and booked a set of top-notch services.
Since Napa is currently in the off-season for tourism, there is no need to wait in line. When it came to the next morning, I saw an extended version of a Rolls-Royce parked outside the villa.
According to Smith, this kind of service company generally provides this kind of car, of course, it is also divided into several grades, usually what is the length of Lincoln, many people who are a little wealthy, and tourists who come for wine tasting will choose this service.
To Li Anran's surprise, the driver who got off this Rolls-Royce was actually quite professional, and he was not the kind of neighbor who came to drive you in casual clothes. Instead, he wore sunglasses and Bluetooth headsets, and wore the kind of professional driver clothing in American movies, that is, a black suit and a hat.
When Li Anran and Hu Jing deliberately changed into casual clothes and walked to the front of the car in order to have a good time today, they were very similar to the driver in the movie "Men in Black", skillfully opened the car door, and also blocked their hands on the upper part of the door frame to avoid hitting their heads.
After getting into the car, with Li Anran's eyes, he had to admit that this Rolls-Royce not only has enough interior space, but also is indeed very luxurious. Of course, whether it is the car or the driver who serves himself, it costs money, and there is a lot of land for this kind of extreme enjoyment.
In fact, according to Smith, there are two more special ways to visit a winery in Napa. One is to take the WineTrain, also known as the sightseeing train. However, if you think that this is just a simple ride on the hot car to enjoy the scenery, you are very wrong.
The WineTrain is actually an antique train restaurant that travels around the hinterland of Napa Valley, and the total journey is about twenty-five miles or so. The train has two locomotives, three onboard galleys and a rare collection of antique carriages from the early 20th century.
Sitting in an old-fashioned train compartment with exquisite aristocratic decorations, enjoying the delicious food and wine of Napa, walking through the Napa Valley, admiring the beautiful rural scenery, how romantic it is, and of course, there will be no shortage of money.
A more unusual way is to take a hot air balloon ride, which once high in the air will give you a panoramic view of Napa Valley from top to bottom, provided you don't have a fear of heights and you won't be able to enjoy the wines from different wineries.
It is precisely because of the fact that neither the WineTrain nor the hot air balloon can let him taste the fine wine made by those peers, so Li Anran did not choose these two ways of touring.
After getting in the car, the first place the two arrived at was the museum in Napa. This place is on a hill in the Yantville area. It looks very inconspicuous from the outside, and Li Anran and Hu Jing regretted it after entering it.
There is not much in the so-called museum, and there is not much information about the field of sake culture. On the contrary, there are a lot of related photos, and in Li Anran's opinion, it is more appropriate to call this place a museum than a photography exhibition.
The only unexpected gain was that the reception work in this museum was actually a middle-aged woman from Hong Kong. Since there were no other people in this place, Li Anran and Hu Jing chatted with each other for a while before leaving.
AFTER LEAVING THE NAPA MUSEUM, THE EXTENDED ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOM DROVE STRAIGHT TO ROBERTMONDAVI, ONE OF THE THREE LEADING WINERIES IN NAPA. The winery produces wines that can be purchased in supermarkets all over the United States, and the prices are in the upper middle class, so it is said that they are also available in China.
The price of the wine tasting service is 20 US dollars per person, and you can taste about three or four wines, according to the driver, if it is a smaller winery, this price can be tasted more, or the price will be discounted.
Considering that there will be a lot of wineries to go to next, whether it is Li Anran, who has an excellent amount of alcohol, or Hu Jing, who is not very good but not bad, they have not done anything similar to the two heroes and heroines in "Not Seen or Scattered", but they just tasted it.
I have to admit that although the winery is famous for its wine, in Li Anran's view, the scenery of this winery is actually more attractive than the wine itself. For this reason, the two of them can take a lot of photos in other wineries. For such behavior, the staff who have long been accustomed to it have no intention of stopping it.
After leaving the winery with two bottles of mid-to-high-end red wine, at Hu Jing's suggestion, the car did not rush directly to the two leading wineries, but walked along Highway 29, and when I saw the winery that fit my eyes, I would drive in and take a turn.
For outsiders, this way of driving Highway 29 all the way forward and walking in when you see the winery is obviously not very efficient in terms of efficiency. In general, it is necessary to find some winery information in the hotel or on the Internet in advance.
Then take a look at the local magazines, which basically have special wineries and some tours. In this way, you can save time wasted on wineries that are not very well-known.
But for Li Anran and Hu Jing, although those famous big wineries are also to go, the stupid way of visiting the wineries hidden on both sides of the highway has added a lot of fun to explore. (To be continued......)
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