Wine is alive. The moment fermentation ends is when it is born. The long aging process that follows is a journey towards maturity, just like human beings from infancy to adulthood.
This maturation process lasts from several years to decades. When they reach the peak of life, which is what humans call the best drinking period, they will be opened to irrigate human taste buds and souls.
In the early days, wine basically lived in oak barrels. It was not until the 19th century that it found a new home - glass wine bottles.
Of course, this does not mean that no one used glass containers to serve wine earlier. Glass has a history of thousands of years. It just means that it has replaced wine barrels for shipping on a large scale.
As the practice of bottling wine in glass spreads around the world, a new way of aging it emerges.
Bottle Chen. and traditional
"Barrel Aged" distinguishes. For wines that are suitable for bottle aging, the flavor, aroma, and color will change in the bottle.
The key to change lies in the cork. Since glass wine bottles have excellent sealing properties, if a tight stopper is used to block the mouth of the bottle, the wine in the bottle will lose the opportunity to communicate with the outside world and will lose its vitality.
Therefore, it is necessary to use a cork with slight breathability to allow the wine in the bottle to breathe and have a chance to mature.
After reading about the Zensexi Manor, Ringer had determined that the wine produced from the grapes there was more suitable for bottle aging.
But where the bottles come from is a question. The appearance of the powder hammer gave him hope of solving the bottle problem.
As for the cork? The cork on the earth side is made of
Made from the bark of the "Cork Oak" tree. This cork oak has two layers of bark, and the outer layer of renewable bark is the material from which cork is made.
Ringer believes that in a foreign continent with a forest coverage rate far greater than that of the Earth, more top-notch cork-making materials will surely be found.
"What, you want us to produce crystal wine bottles for you?" After hearing Ringer's proposal, Fan Zhui exclaimed, looking at him as if he were a fool.
In her opinion, although the stone crystal is beautiful, it can easily break. Why use such a fragile thing to hold wine?
Wouldn't it be better to use a sturdy wooden barrel? In the eyes of dwarves, stone crystals are the kind of things that only superficial human nobles would like.
Dwarves don't like such beautiful but fragile girly things. Gold is their favorite. Gold is both beautiful and strong, symbolizing wealth, which is a good thing.
They produce a small amount of stone crystal products solely for the purpose of trading with human nobles in exchange for gold, silver and food.
So when he heard that Ringer wanted a large number of wine bottles made of stone crystals, Fan Zhui immediately thought that this man's brain must be broken.
"Why, can't it?"
"Do you know what price we offered when we sold the stone crystal products to human nobles? It's almost equivalent to the same weight of gold." Fen Zhui reminded.
Lin Ge smiled and said: "Making glass...ah, it's the stone crystal you mentioned. It should be very simple for you dwarves, right?" Fen Zhui didn't speak, but the look on her face
The look on her face that said "How did you know?" gave her away. Stone crystals are as precious as gold in the eyes of humans, but in the eyes of dwarves, they are just bullshit and they can produce as much as they want.
But the dwarves know very well that rare things are valuable, so they deliberately control the production of stone crystals, so that they can maintain their status as gold and exchange them for truly valuable things from humans.
Seeing that Pink Hammer remained silent, Linge smiled and said: "Ordinary human craftsmen cannot produce stone crystals because the furnace temperature is not enough, but the dwarf's furnace can reach higher temperatures and melt mountain rocks easily. In your eyes, stone crystals must It’s a very cheap thing.”
"Even if you say this, the village chief will not agree to help you mass-produce crystal wine bottles. If you do that, you won't be able to exchange for gold." Fen Zhui had a good impression of Ringer, so he reminded him.
She didn't think Ringer would use the same amount of gold to order a crystal wine bottle. He was not a dragon, so how could he get so much gold.
Even if the evil dragon is sitting on a mountain of gold, if all of it is exchanged for crystal wine bottles, at the village's production speed, its gold mountain can be replaced in a few days.
"What if I trade it with wine?"
"What?" Fan Zhui was stunned. For dwarves, if they want to find something more valuable than gold, there is undoubtedly only one answer.
liquor. A dwarf who doesn't know how to drink is more likely to be ridiculed and ostracized than a dwarf with a smooth mouth.
"You don't even know how to drink. Why are you going out? Go home and drink milk from your mother." If a dwarf who doesn't know how to drink appears in the sight of other dwarves, he will definitely be greeted like this.
Lin Ge touched the storage ring on his hand, and a bottle of dark red wine appeared in front of Fen Zhui. This was a bottle of sample wine he filled with his own hands when he visited Madam Succubus's wine cellar.
"Take this bottle of wine back to your village chief and wait until he drinks it before making my request. I think he will consider it." Lin Ge raised a confident smile on his lips.
Although the wine produced by Serhi Winery has not been improved and blended by him, it is already a rare good wine in this world.
Even if it were taken to Earth, it would still be a top-quality wine that could be sold at sky-high prices. After all, the quality of the grapes used as raw materials was really amazing. The grapes in that manor, Meilezhu, were the strongest grapes he had ever seen.
The wine made from this grape is more precious than gold.
