The former owner of Gaode Manor was a romantic French country aristocrat.

The ancestors were once glorious, but by his generation, they would not have sold the manor.

Han Xuan stood by the balcony on the second floor and looked out. Not only was there a full range of sunflowers, but also a peach blossom forest.

Unfortunately, the peach blossoms in May have fallen, and only scattered pink petals can be seen on the branches.

A small peach tree in the peach forest has now begun to scatter its branches and leaves. After waiting for a few months, it can pick the fruits and use them to make a unique fruit wine in Provence.

Go downstairs and follow the Butler of Baptist and head to your winery, a winemaking factory built next to the vineyard.

Although the red wines in Provence are not as famous as those in Bordeaux, due to their unique taste and similar climatic conditions to Bordeaux, the red wines produced in Provence are also very famous in European countries.

The reputation of Provence red wine is no matter how good it is, and most of the top brands such as the five major wineries can only be sold at mid- and low-end prices on the market.

Sometimes, the history of a red wine brand is more important than a red wine itself. It is not just a red wine, but also a kind of sentiment.

Each of the five major French wineries has a history that can be traced back a hundred years ago, and was already very famous back then.

For example, Latu Winery is a winery and was a military base back then.

In order to compete for its ownership, Britain and France had a dispute over the two sides for decades. Later, it became not for military considerations, but simply wanted the winery itself.

Walk east from the castle, grapes are convenient for planting dozens of meters away. Compared with the vines in Ganbao Ocean Ranch, the main vines here are several circles, and the distance between each tree is even larger.

The excess branches were pruned by the fruit farmers, and some of the already blooming grape branches were cut off.

May is the flowering season for grapes. The leaves grow vigorously under the warm and bright sunshine of the Mediterranean climate in summer.

Housekeeper Baptist walked forward from the path with vines planted on both sides, turned slightly and introduced: "The vines in Gaode Winery are all old vines that are over twenty years old.

The size of the tree age is directly related to the quality of the wine, because the older the vine, its roots will be deeper, so that it can draw more nutrients from the soil and have a stable and continuous water source.

The yield of old vine grapes is relatively low, so each grape will get more essence and concentrated nutrients. Therefore, the older the vines, the higher the quality of the wine they produce.

The secret to making high-quality wine is not the oak barrels used, nor the yeast used, but the quality of the vineyards and whether the roots of the vine are deep enough.

The quality and softness of wine reflect the complex relationship between soil and roots.

We mainly have gravel under our feet, and it is also common river stones and pebbles. It comes from that big river. After long-term erosion of the river water, it is smoother and more conducive to drainage.

Gravel-containing soil is very suitable for grape planting because of its small amount of clay.

Mr. Li bought the grape planting area of ​​the monastery, and I suggested that he do that. The monks of the Monastery of Senanke were very careful in caring grapes and planted them for longer than our manor.

When selling grape plantations, they also sold the secret recipe for making wine to our estate together.

However, the secret recipe was taken away by Mr. Li's assistant. Maybe you can ask him for it. I heard that Mr. Li gave you this manor for free. You should have a good relationship with him, right?"

Butler Baptist spoke very quickly, but Han Xuan had a thorough understanding of French and could understand those words.

Stepping on the pebbles on the ground, shaking his head and saying, "It's not what you think.

At the beginning of this year, by coincidence, I helped his son escape from a group of pirates. In order to thank me, he gave me this manor.

I will try to contact him. If nothing unexpected happens, I will give me the secret recipe for brewing. Does the red wine produced by the Senanke Monastery taste very good?"

“Yes, I like their wine.

But those monks only gave us twenty bottles to the manor every year, which was not enough to drink.

I still have a bottle hidden and I can't bear to drink it. I'll give it to you for dinner.

Just saving his son, did Mr. Li give you this winery?

It's really unbelievable. I really can't understand the lives of you rich people.

While attending school at the University of Provence, I took an old man who was hit by a car to the hospital and helped me pay the medical expenses first. Until he left the hospital, I did not return the money to me.

I have been eating sandwiches for two months and can’t afford meat. How could the gap between people be so big…”

Butler Baptiste remembered what happened back then, and complained in an unhappy tone.

Singapore’s founding head of state, Lee Guangyao, gave the winery to Han Xuan because of Mr. Han’s sake, and wanted to use this to establish a good relationship with the Chinese circle.

There is a deeper reason, and it is entirely because Han Xuan provided news of his son's disappearance.

Without talking about this in detail, seeing that the butler Batista talked about his identity as a rich man from time to time, he changed the topic and said: "Here you only need to treat me as an ordinary manor owner."

There is no rich man, nor the handsome and smart Han Xuan, I am myself.

When I was a kid, I grew up in a ranch in Montana, feeding cattle, herding sheep, growing vegetables and so on.”

“It’s both handsome and smart…”

Isabelle bent down and vomited in the face of such shameless words.

Housekeeper Baptist looked at the assistants and bodyguards not far away and couldn't help but laugh.

In such a scene, it is really hard to regard him as an ordinary person, but compared with the character of a rich child as I imagined before, Han Xuan is really easy-going.

"I understand what you mean, I will do what you said.

Han, you are wearing clothes now, you are a bit like an ordinary French child..."

Walking farther forward, I came to an old winemaking workshop with a long history with war reliefs on the wall.

Use the long key that is already considered an antique, open the door and enter it.

It has been several months since the end of brewing last winter.

Occasionally, someone came to check the fermentation of red wine in the oak barrels in the cellar. They all went in through the small door next to it, so the surface of the equipment of the winemaking workshop had fallen into a layer of dust.

One by one, the grape mixing barrels that looked like they had been used for many years were neatly placed in a small workshop.

Most other wineries are now using new winemaking equipment, such as the batch just purchased by Ganbao Marine Ranch.

At this moment, when Han Xuan saw these equipment around him, he felt like he had traveled back to the 19th century French winery...

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Chapter completed!