Chapter 150: Wine Tasting and Life Variety

Guan Hao defeated his opponent in the first round, and it is estimated that those music agents present are eager to run to the stage immediately and force Guan Hao to sign him as his agent with a gun.

Guan Hao played one of the most difficult Divine Comedy in history with his God's hand, defeating John Anthony in the first round.

This will be the most sensational and difficult music performance ever held in the Naxi Valley! Guan Hao's performance will go down in history.

After a short break, the master of ceremonies announced the highlight of tonight's open barrel music festival, and the wine tasting session began immediately!

The Open Barrel Festival's tasting program is an important part of the festival's repertoire and an important part of the Open Barrel Festival, which is one of the guarantees that the Jack family maintains their Jack Daniel's whiskey heritage and consistent taste.

Through wine tastings, the Open Barrel Festival allows music fans and music workers from all over the world to learn about Jack Daniel's Whiskey, and through live tasting and drinking, everyone recognizes and affirms the special traditional craftsmanship and pure taste of Jack Daniel's Whiskey.

The annual Eid al-Fitr festival is also the launch of the new Jack Daniel's Whiskey Spirit, and it is also an order meeting for whisky distributors around the world.

Every year on Eid al-Fitr, the Jack family in order to have a large sales volume in terms of market development, will use the annual Eid al-Fitr to produce a batch of high-quality new wine, and the new wine launched is not the same, in the Lotus Fort 50 meters underground, there are more than 100,000 square meters of underground cellar, the value of this cellar is said to be conservatively estimated at 100 million dollars, the Jack family has experienced brewers will classify the whisky according to the time of the barrel, the cellar has a total of six floors, the deeper the floor from the ground, the better the quality of the wine, the longer the precipitation time, The higher the price of the sale.

According to the Jack Daniel's Whiskey process, the Jack Daniel's Whiskey that is truly suitable for sale needs to be matured and fermented for at least seven years in specially made oak maple casks made from a blend of local D red maple and locally produced oak.

During these seven years, the cellar is regularly turned over the oak and maple barrels, and the temperature and humidity of the cellar are carefully controlled to ensure that the base wine is fermented properly and healthily, and in order to ensure that the wine is rich in trace elements and has a unique caramel taste, the winemaker adds a secret plant-derived substance to the barrels in the second and fifth years of fermentation.

This is how the unique flavor and consistent quality of Jack Daniel's Whiskey can be guaranteed over the centuries.

Guan Hao has always liked to drink expensive Jack Daniel's in his previous life, so he is very concerned about the history of Jack Daniel's whiskey, and he clearly remembers that the Jack family has made great progress after getting rid of this family financial crisis, and after entering the 21st century, the Jack Daniel's whiskey brand has become the world's largest whisky distiller. And it is also one of the world's top 500 companies.

Guan Hao knew that this acquisition would bring him great gains in the future, and a single Jack Daniel's whiskey alone had already made him far more profitable than expected, not to mention the other properties of the Jack family and such a vast land, which was a very good investment.

What's more, the Jack family gave him a nominal fiancée.

Whiskey is a hard currency in the Naxi Valley, from children to the elderly, from boys and girls to old women, almost everyone loves to drink a sip, so everyone in the Naxi Valley is a master of whisky, and many people can judge its vintage and whether it is a Lotus Castle-style production just by smelling the whiskey.

Although Guan Hao drank a lot of Jack Daniel's whiskey, he was still unable to identify its vintage or whether it was produced in the Naxi Valley.

The next competition is to determine the time and taste of the wine to be fermented in the barrel.

Wine tasting takes time to accumulate, and it is difficult to taste a result without more than ten years of drinking experience, but with Lily helping him in this sentence, Guan Hao can also get through the test.

The wine tasting began, with a total of eight competitors from the Naxi Valley, including Guan Hao and John Anthony.

Before the official start of the wine tasting event, there will be a barrel opening ceremony of the Jack family, only to see four big men carrying a huge wooden barrel from the backstage fluttering to the front desk, the huge wooden barrel covered with a red cloth was placed on a wooden shelf, waiting for the patriarch of the Jack family to open this year's new wine, Lily pushed the old father, appeared on the live stage again, and tonight to participate in the wine tasting activities of the eight young people also lined up behind the giant wooden barrel, when Lily and the old father passed in front of Guan Hao, Lily's father, Kesen Sr., turned his head, smiled at Guan Hao, and made a thumbs up gesture with his right hand.

Laughson was wheeled in front of several barrels, and by this time a worker had already arrived in front of him with a tray made of oak and a metal pipe with a pointed valve.

I saw Lao Kesen and his beloved daughter Lily uncover the red envelope covered on the huge wooden barrel together, picked up the metal pipe with one hand, and grabbed the oak hammer handed over by Lily with the other, "Ding-ding-ding!" Old Kesen struck three times, and the solid oak barrel was partially struck by the tip of the metal pipe, and the beautiful master of ceremonies came again with ten crystal cups.

Old Kesen unscrewed the valve and took the crystal glass handed by Lily, and a stream of amber wine instantly received the crystal glass.

Pure amber Jack Daniel's whiskey with a rich fruity, tobacco aroma quickly spread on the scene, the people present are people who know how to drink good wine, and you can basically judge whether it is good wine by looking at its color and smell.

The so-called: It only took a minute to start the wine, but the love that the Jack family gave to the drinking friends has been aged for many years.

Old Kesen took a total of ten glasses of wine and gave them to everyone on the stage, including himself and his baby daughter Lily.

For the sake of fairness, each young person who participated in the tasting was given a numbered pen and paper, and everyone was separated from each other, and after the tasting, the taste of the wine, the time of vinification, the time it was aged in the cellar, the characteristics of the wine, and the classification from one to seven, etc.

It's true, this is really very difficult for Guan Hao, although he likes Jack Daniel's very much, and has drunk a lot, but if he wants to drink a glass of freshly opened whiskey and then tell the year and grade of its production, then he really can't do it.

Just when Guan Hao was in trouble, the beautiful girl Miss Lily came to him with a wine glass, Lily glanced at Guan Hao with a smile in her eyes, Guan Hao also noticed, Lily's eyes glanced down, Guan Hao immediately understood her intentions, and used her hand to pick up Lily and give him a colored wine glass, while receiving the wine glass, a very small note was stuffed into Guan Hao's finger by Lily, and she grabbed the note with concern and understanding, and said quietly, "Thank you!" ”

Guan Hao picked up the wine glass with a note and was taken to a table by the staff for hunger, Guan Hao's wine tasting was examined, and in front of the small table where the staff went to write, Guan Hao quickly looked at his own pick, and was quickly memorized, and then stretched out his hand, put his hand and the note into his pocket and followed the staff to his desk, waiting for the master of ceremonies to announce the start of the wine tasting.

The eight participants were brought to their tables, and the master of ceremonies said, "The wine tasting begins, and at the same time everyone has five minutes to have a good taste." ”

Even though he already knew the correct answer, Guan Hao took his wine tasting very seriously.

I saw Guan Hao pick up the wine glass, first look at the light and carefully look at the color under the light, the color of the wine will directly affect the grade of the wine, in many other distilleries will add something to make the wine more full and rich, but Jack Daniel's whiskey has always adhered to the pure natural brewing, not adulterated with a little fake. Strict control of quality has made Jack Daniel's whiskey famous all over the world.

At this time, Guan Hao was very serious, and carefully looked at the whiskey in the wine glass, and he slowly shook it while looking at it to see if the foam of the wine was even.

Guan Hao knows that wine tasting is nothing more than a three-step process: see, smell and taste.

The so-called look, as long as you look at the color of the liquor and the foam after shaking, the more uniform and full the color, the better the wine, the longer the aging time, of course, the pure grain wine will be very delicate, the longer the foam, the greater the density of the foam.

After reading the colors and bubble girls, Guan Hao immediately picked up the pen and recorded what he saw.

Guan Hao took a deep breath, then slowly sniffed, exhaled, inhaled, and then breathed deeply, and so on and so forth, Guan Hao figured out the taste of the wine, and Guan Hao used a pen to record the composition of the wine and the duration of the strong duration, another key indicator parameter of the rating of these things.

After sniffing, go straight to the last and most difficult part: wine tasting.

Guan Hao took a sip first, let the liquor slowly enter the mouth, and then let the amber liquor swirl in the mouth, so that the pure natural floral aroma and experience the added tobacco flavor, this obviously felt that the aroma of various herbs in the liquor was quickly released in the mouth, this rich taste layered so that Guan Hao, who was used to drinking Jack Daniel's whiskey, suddenly took it, the new wine that opened the barrel today is a very high-grade new wine, no wonder Lily wrote on the note, twenty-two years old, this wine is older than Guan Hao.

Guan Hao wrote down his feelings and vintage, and then slowly began to taste it.

The other players were still tasting the wine, and he was not in a hurry to drink this rare glass of wine.

Guan Hao wondered in his heart whether this barrel of wine would be a gift for Lily's coming-of-age ceremony specially prepared by the Jack family, or like Country C, the father buried the rice wine for his daughter when his daughter was full moon wine, and only took it out to share "daughter red" with relatives and friends when her daughter got married.