【1516】 The price of grapes
Xiao Feng inspected the "Dream Manor" and returned to the main house until the sun set. After more than an hour of adjustment, Xu Mengyao finally recovered a little and prepared to have dinner.
The chefs in the restaurant did not make too many greasy and exciting food until the boss and the boss lady came over to have a meal, so they naturally tried their best to cook a series of delicious food. Considering that Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao had just taken a 16-hour flight to Los Angeles from the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the journey was exhausted, and the chefs did not make too many greasy and exciting foods, but instead focused on light Lingnan dishes, and put in a lot of effort.
In addition to trying to please the boss and the boss’s wife, the chefs also hope that Xiao Feng, an expert, will give a review, which plays a crucial role in their position in the food industry.
As an international top food supplier and top chef, Xiao Feng's status in the international food industry is unquestionable. Whenever he catches his eyes, both restaurants and chefs will become famous all over the world.
Although Xiao Feng rarely goes out, he is also quite a lot when flying all over the world. He is also a person who likes to recommend food on self-media platforms. Therefore, many confident restaurants around the world are looking forward to Xiao Feng's arrival. As long as Xiao Feng evaluates a restaurant on his scarf and Twitter, whether it is good or bad, it will make the restaurant the focus of attention.
What's more, Xiao Feng has always been a bodhisattva. Even if he encounters a bad restaurant, he will not be made public. Only those delicious delicacies will he recommend them to his fans.
For the chefs of the "Dream Restaurant", Xiao Feng's praise will not affect the restaurant's business, but it can improve their position in the restaurant and even within the group. Everyone's attention can be imagined.
‘Learn from civil and military skills, sell goods to the imperial family’!
For most Chinese people, this concept has been going on for thousands of years. Even though it is no longer the feudal era, it is always necessary to show it to the most powerful people with good skills.
In a sense, Xiao Feng is a big shot standing at the top of the entire Earth's pyramid. Being able to gain Xiao Feng's appreciation is the dream of all craftsmen!
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When Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao arrived at the "Dream Restaurant", many guests had already eaten in the restaurant. Their arrival caused a small commotion. After all, Xiao Feng did not often appear in public.
The customers who can come to the "Dream Restaurant" to consume are not bad, and many of them are political and business celebrities in Los Angeles and superstars in Hollywood. However, Xiao Feng's identity is special, so people naturally will not regard them as ordinary customers.
If it weren't for the many details in Western catering etiquette, these consumers would probably have to rush up to take a photo with Xiao Feng and ask for an autograph. At this point, the country would have almost had a lot of fun.
On several occasions, Xiao Feng made public appearances in other restaurants. The good guys could hardly even eat, and the customers gathered around him, and they were in a mess.
When Europeans and Americans who pay attention to privacy see Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao join hands to enter the restaurant, they will naturally not come forward to disturb them. At most, familiar people will raise their hands to signal, and smile and nod.
The restaurant specially prepared a window seat for Xiao Feng. Sitting in the seat can enjoy the night view of Los Angeles at the foot of the mountain, which is extremely comfortable.
The "Dream Restaurant" has four floors. Most of the first-floor lobbies only provide customers with short rest salons, and the dining area is above the second floor. Each location is separated by sofas, Chinese-style screens and various plants. Each table of guests has their own semi-private space.
For customers, dining in this environment can naturally give them the greatest relaxation. The soothing music in the restaurant can give them a better dining experience.
I heard that all these music are works by the restaurant's eldest princess Nini. Although it is not as good as the skills of those top masters, it is full of childlike fun and surprises.
Many music-loving customers or Xiao Feng’s fans will ask the restaurant for the piano album made by Nini from the restaurant when checking out, which has become a major feature of the ‘Dream Restaurant’.
After Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao sat down in the seat, the waiter immediately gave them a cup of warm black tea to moisten their throats and wait for the food to be served.
For customers who come to the "Dream Restaurant" to dine, the Chinese tea provided by the restaurant has always been a highlight. These high-mountain teas native to the "Ginkgo Village" are of excellent quality. After brewing the live spring water, even the bad guys praised it.
On the market, the price of high mountain tea in "Ginkgo Village" will not be less than US$600 per kilogram, and the price is even higher than that of "Mengyao Coffee", but it is still in short supply.
Of course, the entire "Ginkgo Village" and even "Ginkgo City" have hundreds of thousands of acres of tea gardens. Not all tea leaves can be sold at such a sky-high price. Only the tea gardens with less than 5,000 acres of tea gardens in "Xiao Family Farm" can ensure such high quality.
Sitting face to face with his wife and drinking tea, Xiao Feng felt relieved when he saw that his wife's face had less fatigue. While drinking tea, the two of them talked about homely habits, which was plain and warm.
In less than a day after leaving the children, the content of the two chats revolved around the children. This is the daily life of parents. In addition to work, most of the time and space revolve around the children.
It's time for the children to get up later. Then I'll have a video with them. I'll just disappear for a day. I miss you.
Because of the hard work of traveling today, Xiao Feng asked the restaurant to serve light Lingnan cuisine, so there was no too greasy steak, etc. All the delicacies were all full of color, fragrance and taste, which made Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao have a great appetite!
After dinner, Xiao Feng personally went to the kitchen to comfort the chefs and made a series of comments on their works, which benefited a large group of people in the kitchen!
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After coming out of the restaurant, it was already the middle of the moon. There was only a curved round left in the crescent moon. The cold moonlight was almost invisible, and the light pollution in Los Angeles was still a bit heavy.
Compared with "Ginkgo Village", although the big city of Los Angeles is more prosperous and lively, Xiao Feng still prefers the purest mountain village, which has the purest air and the brightest night sky.
From the restaurant to the main house, there is a winding pebbled path. There are two rows of osmanthus trees introduced from China on both sides of the road. The strong osmanthus fragrance is everywhere in the air, which makes Xiao Feng feel like he returns to the old house.
The cries of insects and tree frogs in the manor are quite loud, and the sounds from nature make the night more romantic. This is really rare in a big city!
Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao walked hand in hand, and no one spoke. At this time, 'silence is better than sound'!
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The next morning, Xiao Feng was woken up by the shouts of North American skylarks in the manor and slept for nearly 8 hours. For people with physical fitness like Xiao Feng, the fatigue caused by long-distance flights and jet lag has been wiped out.
When I opened the curtains, the rising sun shone a brilliant light on the entire manor, and the City of Angels began to wake up from its sleep and ushered in a vibrant new day!
Xiao Feng heard the busy shouts of workers from the winery, probably because the workers were working together to lift the huge oak barrels out to bask in the sun and prepare for making wine.
Compared with the huge scale of "Xiaoshi Winery" and "No. 2 Winery", "Dream Winery" produces only tens of thousands of bottles per year, so there is a big difference in production.
‘Xiaoshi Winery’ and ‘No. 2 Winery’ have all adopted modern brewing processes. Whether it is the preparation and fermentation of wine stock liquid, stainless steel storage devices are used. Only when entering the final cellaring stage will traditional tools such as oak barrels be used.
However, in the "Dream Winery", many processes are still using manual labor, especially during the fermentation and storage stages, the most primitive tools are used throughout the process.
Take oak barrels as an example. All oak barrels are summer oak imported from France. This oak aroma is more elegant and delicate, and is easy to blend with the fruit and wine aroma of wine, creating an intoxicating taste.
In the history of winemaking, oak barrels have played an extremely important role, and as time goes by, each oak barrel will give wine a new life, which is of great significance!
Some people jokingly say that the biggest wealth of the "Minghu Group" is not these assets on the surface, but the wine hidden deep in the wine cellar and the large number of oak barrels!
According to incomplete statistics, since the start of production of "Xiao's Winery", the "Jinghu Group" has stored more than 8 million bottles of wine in the cellars of the three major wineries. Except for some of these wines, most of which are stored in 225-liter burgundy-type oak barrels.
After these oak barrels store fine wines all year round, they will become the source of fine wines. Then, they will be used to store new wines and it will be easy to make better fine wines. This is a virtuous cycle.
For Xiao Feng, even if his descendants make a fortune in the future, as long as a few wineries can operate well, there is no need to worry about the future of the "Xiao Family".
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Listening to the busy voices of the workers, Xiao Feng couldn't sit still. He spoke to his wife who was taking a bath, and then went to the winery to join the help ranks.
Xiao Feng's joining made the workers' morale soar. Since Xiao Feng, the big boss, can put down his figure and do physical work, what reason do they have to cherish their strength?
In the end, even the security personnel in charge of security work rolled up their sleeves and joined the labor force, and the entire winery was suddenly full of enthusiasm.
Xiao Feng and Xiao Li discussed it and found that the wine-making grapes in "Dream Winery" have begun to be frosted and are approaching the most suitable brewing time. What's more, Los Angeles has been sunny recently, so naturally, I have to hurry up and pick grapes and start brewing!
Since it has been decided not to hold a grand opening ceremony, it is better to choose a day than to meet the sun, Xiao Feng simply decided to start picking wine grapes today and make the first batch of "dream wine". Anyway, all the preparations are ready!
In this way, the most simple brewing ceremony of "Dream Winery" was completed within the agreement between Xiao Feng and Xiao Li. Afterwards, the tasters joked that although the "Dream Wine" brewed in 2020 did not hold any ceremony, it produced amazing quality, which is really unpredictable!
At noon, Xu Mengyao also joined the army of picking grapes. For everyone, the joy of a good harvest can always infect people. The bunches of wine-making grapes that are like agate are even more valuable than those of agate of the same weight!
Generally speaking, a bunch of wine grapes in "Dream Winery" weighs about 500 grams, which can produce 300 grams of "Dream Wine". The market price will not be less than US$5,000, which is a sky-high price!
Therefore, the wine-making grapes in "Dream Winery" enjoy the best treatment from the blooming, fruiting and final picking. Even every bunch of grapes is covered with various paper bags to avoid pollution and pests.
Xiao Feng took a picture of picking grapes in the vineyard with his mobile phone, and gave a close-up of the wine-making grapes in Xu Mengyao's hand, and posted them on the scarf, which caused a sensation among fans!
After all, the bunch of grapes in Xu Mengyao's hand can make half a bottle of "dream wine" worth $5,000. This sky-high price is amazing!
At present, the only top wine produced by Romani Conte Winery in the world can be compared with "Fantasy Wine", but the production of this winery is not stable, and it is impossible to guarantee that the top wine can be produced every year.
Only the "Dream Winery" is like a monster, which has produced amazing top-notch wines for five consecutive years. This situation is simply a miracle.
In fact, the "Dream Winery" is just a microcosm of the various magical performances of "Jinghu Group". Since Xiao Feng founded the "Jinghu Group" in 2008, it has created countless miracles, both in the planting industry, poultry breeding, ranch construction and winemaking.
Someone has studied the "Jinghu Group" in depth and found that everything about it is unreplicable, as if someone is secretly protecting it. It will never encounter various disasters, but instead it will usher in a bumper harvest every year.
It is precisely because of this that Xiao Feng is also called the "Son of Chosen" by many people. He is the embodiment of luck. All industries under his hands can shine dazzlingly.
Back then, the predecessor of "Dream Winery" was just an ordinary winery, but in Xiao Feng's hands it became the best winery in the world. This change was so magical.
Chapter completed!