Chapter 214 Maple Leaf Winery
Tang Zhengqing watched Joubert drive, and after listening to his explanation, he realized that 40 or 60 on the roadside signs in the United States turned out to be the minimum speed, which was exactly the opposite of that in China. (miles)
"It's more fun to race in the United States!" Tang Zhengqing even saw a sign stating the speed limit was 80.
After entering the Napa Valley, Tang Zhengqing saw hills all over the sky. The low hills were covered with grapevines. October is when the grapes are ripe.
Red wine in Napa Valley is basically made from Cabernet Sauvignon, so there are basically more red wines here, and dry whites are almost impossible to find here.
"Jolbert, take me directly to Maple Leaf Winery. I want to go to that winery." Tang Zhengqing said directly to Joubert. The winery Zhou Gucheng left for him is called Maple Leaf Winery (I am right about that winery).
Maple Leaf Winery still has emotions, let’s call it this).
"Don, don't worry, it's noon now. Let's go taste the red wine and food in Napa Valley first, and then we'll do it in the afternoon." Joubert did not take Tang Zhengqing to Maple Leaf Winery, and besides, he didn't either
Know where Maple Leaf Winery is.
Tang Zhengqing listened and looked at his watch. It happened to be half past twelve, "Okay, let's eat first. Do you three want to eat?" Tang Zhengqing said without forgetting his cousin.
"Brother, whatever you say is what it is. We will listen to you in everything. We will do whatever you say." Li Zhenghai didn't have any objections. Besides, he was also hungry.
Napa Valley is the largest wine producing area in the United States and a great tourist destination. Every year, Napa Valley welcomes four to five million people.
Visit the grape plantation, visit the wine cellar, taste the winery's red wine and food, and even participate in the grape harvest in the fall. Then the grapes you picked will be packaged and given by the winery with two bottles of red wine.
You, this feeling of reaping the rewards of your labor, are so satisfied that you don’t want to give it up.
Tang Zhengqing thought that farmhouses were only available in China. Who knew that this model had been popular in the United States for decades.
Tang Zhengqing, Joubert, and Li Zhenghai tasted red wine and delicacies from an unknown winery. This was a winery they found casually on the roadside, but in Tang Zhengqing's opinion, it was pretty good.
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This time, Tang Zhengqing felt that the red wine from this winery was several grades worse than the red wine from Screaming Eagle Winery that he drank at Joubert's house the day before yesterday. It was not a tasteful thing at all.
"The red wine here is basically table wine, which is basically actual US dollars. A bottle of red wine can cost up to twenty or thirty dollars at most." Joubert said while eating, because the wineries in Napa Valley are really good.
There are too many, so the wine is very cheap.
Tang Zhengqing ate and nodded. He knew very well that even though in the United States, this bottle of wine only cost twenty or thirty dollars, in China, if this bottle of wine did not cost four or five times, it would be embarrassing to compete with other wineries.
greet.
Thinking of this, Tang Zhengqing thought of his own Maple Leaf Winery. He heard that it has a large area and produces a lot of red wine every year, but he has never seen it in China, and he doesn't know what Zhou Gucheng is doing? Such a good business
Even if you don't do it, even if it costs 30 to 50 US dollars per bottle, it can be sold for more than 500 yuan in China. If you sell 200,000 bottles in China a year, you can at least earn a small target.
However, Tang Zhengqing knew that this matter was not that simple. It was simply impossible for a completely unfamiliar red wine brand to open up sales in China. There were countless red wine wineries around the world doing this kind of thing.
"Whatever, let's buy it first." Tang Zhengqing didn't believe in evil. How could a living person be choked to death by urinating? There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and it's not like he has nothing to do with it.
"Is Joubert okay? Well, we are going to Maple Leaf Winery." When Tang Zhengqing came, he had already been brought over by the purchase contract. This time he came here to clarify his sovereignty.
"Tang, let's go. I just found Maple Leaf Winery on Google Maps. I have to say, it's really a big guy."
What Joubert saw on the map was that Maple Leaf Winery had almost 10,000 acres. This was not a small number. When Joubert told Tang Zhengqing that Maple Leaf Winery had 10,000 acres, Tang Zhengqing felt a little
Small.
"Tang, what I mean is an acre, not an acre of land in China. In the United States, an acre covers an area of more than 4,000 square meters, which is one to six acres in China." After listening to Joubert's words, Tang Zhengqing
Only then did he suddenly wake up.
One acre is equivalent to six acres of land. If the 10,000 acres of plantation is converted into Chinese acres, it would be 60,000 acres of land. "It's not bad, this number is about the same." Tang Zhengqing is quite satisfied with this number. In fact, this is also Tang Zhengqing's.
Zhengqing himself didn't pay attention because there was all the data in the contract, but Tang Zhengqing didn't read it carefully, so he didn't know the size of Maple Leaf Winery.
Sixty thousand acres of land, neither big nor small. No matter how big it is, I don’t know if the American government will sell it. Tang Zhengqing saw the news that a wealthy Chinese man wanted to buy a piece of land in Australia. Good guy, it’s a full 100,000 square meters.
Kilometers, this is as big as Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, but the Australian government refused to approve it, so it had to give up in the end.
In fact, this is Tang Zhengqing’s overthinking. Let alone 10,000 acres, so what if it’s 100,000 acres? The American government still dares to sell it. Besides, whether to sell or not is a matter for the state government, and the federal government has no control over it, let alone
What's more, these lands are still in the territory of the United States. If you want to take them back, it won't be a matter of words. Then you can just slap a label on it. Just look at the Juhua Company. This is why Tang Zhengqing
The reason why I learned well from Joubert is that with Joubert here, I can get in touch with people on Wall Street.
"Where is your general manager? Just say that the boss of Maple Leaf Winery is here and ask him to come out quickly." After Joubert drove to Maple Leaf Winery, he found a service staff and told him directly.
Not long after, a middle-aged white man who was almost fifty years old came over. He was not very tall, even a little short, but he looked very strong. He was wearing a cowboy hat and a red nose. He didn't know if he had been drinking.
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"Who are you?" George asked looking at Joubert.
"I am the owner of Maple Leaf Winery. I came to Maple Leaf Winery this time just to take a look and declare my sovereignty." Tang Zhengqing did not let Joubert speak, he stood up directly.
"Where was Mr. Zhou in the past?" George asked, stunned for a moment.
"Mr. Zhou Gucheng has transferred Maple Leaf Winery to me. This is the contract. There are also some documents here. Please take a look." Tang Zhengqing said as he took out a stack of paper documents from his backpack and handed it to George.
George watched for ten minutes before he put down his hand and said, "Hello boss, don't you know what to call me?" It seemed that George had recognized the identity of boss Tang Zhengqing.
"My name is Tang Zhengqing. Just call me Mr. Tang. You are Old George, the general manager of Maple Leaf Winery, right? You have worked hard these years." Tang Zhengqing shook hands with Old George.
"Come in!" It's not hard work. If it weren't for the annual salary of half a million dollars, old George wouldn't be the general manager of Maple Leaf Winery. But for the sake of green dollars, working for anyone is not a part-time job.
Old George only knows that the Chinese people are rich now. In Napa Valley, even one-tenth of the wineries are owned by Chinese people. However, the Chinese people are pretty good, and few of them interfere in the operation of the wineries.
, their favorite thing to do is to bring their friends to the winery, have a drink, walk around, visit some scenery, taste the delicious food of Napa Valley, and then leave after living here for a while.
Old George feels that the Chinese people today are far better than the neon people thirty years ago. The neon people are the most difficult to deal with. This one is not good, that one is not good, there are many things, and the salary is still small.
Speaking of this, old George was very angry.
The current economic environment is not very good. There are many rich people in the United States, but they don’t want to buy their own unknown winery. They all invest their money in the stock market or the Internet, hoping to make quick money.
If you are not engaged in the real economy, even if you are buying a winery, you should buy well-known wineries such as Screaming Eagle Winery, Stags Leap Winery, Beringer Winery, and Mondavi Winery, not those unknown wineries.
The Maple Leaf Winery where I work is like this.
But the Chinese people don’t want to be picky. What they want is not the reputation of the winery. The first thing they want is whether the operation of the winery is good and whether it can lose money. Then it depends on whether the winery is big. As long as it doesn’t lose money, then the winery will be big.
, Old George still clearly remembers the very elegant Mr. Zhou he met five years ago. Unfortunately, Maple Leaf Winery has now been sold to a young man.
Old George knew nothing about Tang Zhengqing. He didn't know his character and temper, let alone how he would deal with himself. It was not easy to find a job with an annual salary of $500,000 in Napa Valley.
Following Old George, he introduced Tang Zhengqing to a lot of things that he couldn't see in the information, such as wine cellars, hotels, restaurants, etc. Tang Zhengqing followed them to have a look. Of course, Li Zhenghai and Niu Ma also took photos enthusiastically.
Although there was no time to live broadcast, Li Zhenghai planned to live broadcast again when he has time tomorrow.
After walking around for almost an hour, Old George was still concerned about the grape harvest in the winery, so he said goodbye to Tang Zhengqing and said that they would have a nice chat in the evening.
"You can do whatever you want, I'll go around and take a look." After George Lao left, Tang Zhengqing said to Joubert and Li Zhenghai.
Walking out of the wooden house, Tang Zhengqing went directly to the vineyard. Looking at the grapevines all over the mountains and the grapes already hanging on the branches, Tang Zhengqing almost drooled, but Tang Zhengqing knew that these were wine grapes.
, rather than table grapes.
At this time, there were not many people in the vineyard. People in twos and threes were holding cameras to take pictures. Only Tang Zhengqing was looking at the scenery with his hands in his pockets. Most of the people were nervously harvesting grapes on the other side, and even
Even some tourists are participating nervously and excitingly.
"Sir, can you take some photos for me?" Just as Tang Zhengqing was walking among the grape bushes, a girl's voice came from behind.
Tang Zhengqing turned around and saw a little girl in her twenties, and her face looked like that of an East Asian.
"Chinese?" Tang Zhengqing asked in Chinese.
"Yes, yes, you are also Chinese?" The girl was a little happy when she heard Tang Zhengqing's words. It is not easy to meet a young and handsome boy in the country of America.
She has met many young people in the United States, including top academics, people who aspire to be the beacon of freedom, and the second generation of rich people or the second generation of power, but she has never met anyone like Tang Zhengqing, whose eyes are pure and unobtrusive.
Without any desire.
At this moment, Xu Mingze felt that Tang Zhengqing was not a young man, he was like an old man who had seen through the vicissitudes of the world, even more vicissitudes than his grandfather.
"I am from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, China. I wonder where you are from?" Looking at the girl in front of him who was not too beautiful but very pure, Tang Zhengqing felt very fond of her. No matter what she said or did, she gave people a kind of
The feeling of spring breeze even has a false feeling.
"I am from Imperial City, studying in the United States, and will graduate in June. I took advantage of the time to travel around the United States, and I happened to come to Maple Leaf Winery today." The girl felt a very cordial feeling,
She also couldn't understand why she felt this way about Tang Zhengqing. Could this be God's arrangement?
"Come on, let me take some pictures for you." Tang Zhengqing took the camera from the girl's hand, took several pictures of her, and then began to change different positions and continue to have sex.
Tang Zhengqing, who was taking pictures, suddenly felt uneasy in his heart and hurriedly squatted down, then there was a sound of wind above his head.
Tang Zhengqing turned around and saw that it was a girl who was attacking him. Looking at her appearance, she had a cold and unconventional temperament. Tang Zhengqing knew that she was a bodyguard.
"Sister Lan, what are you doing? Stop it immediately." Seeing that Sister Lan was still about to take action, Xu Mingze shouted quickly.
After listening to Xu Mingze's words, Sister Lan stopped and looked at Tang Zhengqing with a look that looked at the enemy.
"You must think carefully next time you do something, that is, I am in a good mood today, otherwise you would have been lying on the ground." Tang Zhengqing said to Sister Lan, it is not that he can't beat her, but that he can still defeat her.
Before he had time to take action, Xu Mingze had already shouted to stop. At this time, even if Tang Zhengqing wanted to take action, he had no chance.
"Miss, this man has a dangerous aura about him. You must not get too close to him." Sister Lan walked up to Xu Mingze and stared at Xu Mingze.
"Nonsense, Sister Lan, look at him. He's so skinny that he doesn't have any dangerous aura. Don't think that the whole world is a bad person." Xu Mingze pushed Sister Lan away and came to Tang Zhengqing's side again.
"Miss!" Sister Lan shouted helplessly, and could only follow closely, staring at Tang Zhengqing closely, taking action immediately if Tang Zhengqing made the slightest move.
"In that case, let's give it up! We will meet again if we are destined to do so in the future." Tang Zhengqing said, putting Xu Mingze's camera on the ground, turned around and left.
If Xu Mingze didn't have such a light bulb next to him, Tang Zhengqing would really want to have a good chat with the little girl in front of him. In this case, he should leave quickly.
"Hey, I still don't know what your name is?" Xu Mingze shouted loudly to Tang Zhengqing.
Chapter completed!