royal family

The sugarcane green plum wine was found by Shao Yan from an ancient book, and the book was stored in the imperial study building where the imperial study room kept books, and no one could enter it at leisure.

The eunuch Guan Shu is a tortoise, holding chicken feathers as arrows, and has never looked down on the little servants in the palace.Shao Yan was often ridiculed by him when he was underdeveloped in his early years. Later, he became the general manager and was favored by the emperor. If he wanted to read any book, he only needed to send someone to say a word, and someone would send it over.He is so arrogant, people in the palace who are not used to it will naturally go away, but the emperor and the empress don't care about it, so who can do anything if they are not convinced?Sometimes the emperor would temporarily ask someone to pick out the dishes that appeared in the mouth when reading books and send them to the Imperial Food Supervisor to show to Shao Yan.

Shao Yan's reading is not for nothing, the more he reads, the further he thinks.

Delicacy is something that needs to be pondered. For example, this sugarcane green plum wine should have been two separate types of wine, one drink is sweet and the other drink is elegant, each has its advantages and disadvantages.An ordinary person might only want to improve the quality of a single wine, but Shao Yan doesn't. He wants to do the best, and he simply goes straight to the difficult one and brews the two wines together.

Cane sugar has a lot of sugar content, so it's okay to say.Plum wine making is really troublesome. The early stages of the process are trivial and complicated, and the brewing process is also quite particular: before the plums are put into the cellar, they are steamed three times and dried three times. The altar of good wine will be wiped out because of a small negligence.Even if it was successfully brewed in the end, multiple treatments will still be required in the follow-up. The wine of plum wine is very turbid, and the impurities in it cannot be easily resolved by precipitation, but what if the emperor's imports don't look good?In order to get rid of the impurities floating inside, Shao Yan also spent a lot of brainpower.

The plum wine is slightly sour in the mouth, and the taste of this kind of steamed fermented wine is very different from that soaked in white wine, which makes people feel elegant and refreshing.

Sugarcane wine is different. It has a lot of sugar and has a lot of energy after fermentation. Compared with plum wine, it is the difference between a scholar and a strong man.This brawny man is also arrogant, a mouthful of sugarcane has a mellow aftertaste, and the aroma of sugarcane can linger in his mouth for a whole day. It is open and closed, straightforward and spicy, and is most liked by the generals in the court.So there is a good reason for Shao Yan to be so arrogant and popular. Among the courtiers, civil and military, most of them are addicted to alcohol. Because of his craft, they usually consciously give up three points.

The elegant plum wine and the straightforward sugar cane wine will accidentally blend into another completely different flavor. The lethality is not a joke. .

However, compared with the flower wine, which has a more complicated process and carefully researched materials, sugarcane plum wine is somewhat different.But in the era when everything was inconvenient in the past, the pitifully small production of flower wine was not even enough for the emperor to drink alone. Unless the concubines in the palace were deeply favored, even the empress could taste it from time to time. None of the privileges.Needless to say, civil and military officials, Huaniang needn’t think about it, it’s already a great honor to get sugarcane plum wine from the imperial kitchen, and occasionally a bottle is rewarded by the emperor, and you have to invite friends to pay homage at home, but it’s just Smell it, drink it is never given to guests.

Shao Yan can make a lot of this wine every year, but he can't bear the many opportunities to hold banquets in the palace. There must be a banquet, and the standard of this kind of banquet cannot be low. The emperor is reluctant to brew it out of flowers. According to him, using ordinary wine is not enough to show the grandeur of his royal power, so he can only use plum sugar cane wine.

This wine came out very rarely, and those who tasted it would never stop drinking it until they had a good time. After coming and going, the emperor himself could only dip the bottom of the vat when he wanted to drink it.

The sugarcane in this year is sweeter than in the past, and with Yan Daichuan around, it is easy to get high-quality fresh sugarcane.Shao's father's request was easily ignored, and Shao Yan put down his words and asked him to brew wine himself if he wanted to drink it.

There are too many varieties of plums in modern times, such as red bayberry, green plum, black plum, white plum, and so on. Shao Yan has never seen many. By the way, I also found that many fresh fruits in the season taste good, and after tossing and tossing with itchy hands, I accidentally produced a few more tanks of new varieties.

Recently, because of his increased interest in fruit, the family eats green, environmentally friendly and healthy food. There are plenty of jams and pastries, and the most popular among women are the various preserved fruits he pickles.

The sweet and greasy sugarcane juice is poured into kiwi fruit, and a small amount of pure milk is added according to the proportion. The milk taste is mixed with the sweetness of the fruit. Li Yuke can drink two large bottles with empty mouth.

The cellar where the wine is stored is relatively shady and cool. She held the fruit juice she had squeezed out before going out, chewed the freshly marinated fruit that Shao Yan had made these days, and walked all the way to observe the wine jars filled with wine.The candied fruit is pickled with small cherries, and the site is not far from the city where sugar cane is produced. They are all pocket-shaped, with an average diameter of only [-] centimeters.Such small cherries have a hearty sweet and sour taste that is hard to find in big cherries. Unfortunately, it is difficult to transport after picking because of the thin skin, and it can’t be kept for too long. If something heavy is added, it will be accumulated until the stomach is broken.Both Shao's mother and Li Yuke liked to eat this, so Shao Yan asked Yan Daichuan to bring some back with the sugar cane cart. After digging out the cherry pits, they boiled them with lemon and sugar, made part of the cherry sauce and left part of the marinated pulp.A few days after the cherry sauce was made, Li Yuke and Shao's mother snatched it up while eating toast in the morning. The candied fruit was soft and chewy, full of flavor, and the supply has always been in short supply.

Shao Yan pays attention to temperature and time when making wine, and he pastes the finished product of steamed fruit wine with mud and puts it here.Not far away, the mud on the mouth of the altar covered with a small piece of golden silk cloth is the passion fruit wine that is now hard to come by in Yumenxi.Seriously speaking, the popularity of passion fruit wine should be comparable to that of Huaniang. Although the output is slightly higher than that of Huaniang, the price outside Yumenxi has been raised long ago.Li Yuke counted the number of wine jars, calculated the value of this cellar wine in her heart, and couldn't help but click her tongue slightly.

Going to the innermost part, the temperature is lower, and the rare thing is that the air is not blocked.After entering the door at the end, and turning on the dimly lit lamp, wine jars of various sizes and sizes all over the floor were immediately revealed.

"The biggest one is made from sugar cane and green plums. There are small pots on the ground. Some are made from different varieties of plums, and some are made from other fruits." As Shao Yan introduced, he watched Shao's father hunker down and search in the corner. After a long while Find a small crimson jar that is slightly larger than a basketball.

Father Shao's face was full of color: "The brat told me to brew wine myself, look at my masterpiece!"

Shao's father didn't believe in evil either, and he came from a gourmet family, his father was an old chef, and he gave birth to a son who was so capable, he was good at making wine and cooking.Although he has no interest in cooking, maybe there is some unknown talent hidden in him!

Father Shao was thinking this way, and a picture of the peerless wine he brewed was placed in a gold-plated wine bottle in the most prominent signboard position of the future Yumenxi winery appeared in front of his eyes.

Shao Yan squinted at the intoxicated expression on his face, listened to the sound of liquid colliding in Father Shao's wine jar, and raised his brows slightly.

Shao's father squatted on the ground excitedly and took the lead in driving, carefully hammering open the hard mud with a hammer.

With a lot of movement in his hands, Shao Yan slapped off the frighteningly thick mud on the big wine vat containing sugarcane green plum wine.

"Kang Kuang Kuang Kuang..." Father Shao tapped with relish.

Everyone couldn't bear to look at it, and retreated from him one after another, expressing their positions.

Shao Yan uncovered the layers of silk cloth, sealing cloth and large leaves under the mud seal. Standing far away, the Yan family couple and Shao's mother smelled a long, clear and mellow fragrance.

Scoop out a spoonful with a wine spoon, fill it up to the top, and slowly pour it down. Shao Yan narrowed his eyes to distinguish carefully. There is a trace of plum greenness in the clear wine. The wine is delicate and lingering. .

After taking a sip, he smacked his mouth, nodded secretly, and handed the small spoon still containing the wine back to Yan Yi who tried hard to hide his eyes.

Yan Yi smelled the aroma and couldn't bear it any longer, so he hurriedly took it, the mixed green plum and sugar cane became a mellow aroma that was completely different from the raw materials, and hit his face.The taste of the wine is different from ordinary fruit wine. It is neither soft nor greasy. The sweetness is light. The key lies in the sweetness. The process of sliding down the throat is extremely smooth, falling into the stomach bag, and the warmth pours into the limbs Baike.

Using sugarcane with such a high sugar content, the strange thing is that the sweetness of the wine is actually very light, and it will not overwhelm the host at all. It only slowly rises to the mouth after the wine enters the stomach, and the whole person's spirit is relaxed because of this sweetness. .

Yan Yi drank almost half a spoonful, but didn't speak, frowning as if he wanted to evaluate patiently. Li Yuke was staring at him, but immediately realized that something was wrong, slapped him hard, and grabbed the spoon. .

"Good wine!" Yan Yi showed no embarrassment at all, smiling like a Maitreya Buddha.This wine is good, when I go out later, I have to take a small jar with it.

Shao Yan smiled unsurprisingly, and began to toss with other flavors of wine that he had in the cellar by the way, picking out a few jars of wine that had been spoiled by the sound, and when he opened it, they all tasted mediocre.

Shao's father knocked out the sealing mud enthusiastically, and blinked his eyes from the air after the fermentation of grape juice. Seeing that everyone ignored him, he simply took out the spoon and tasted it himself.

Against his conscience, Shao's father searched for adjectives that could be used for this jar of wine.

...But it's clearly just grape juice!

The taste of fermentation tastes like rice wine, and the mouth is full of the sweetness of grape juice!

The lychee wine failed, the sugarcane plum wine failed, the carambola wine failed, and the strawberry wine was just mediocre.

On the contrary, a small can of kiwi fruit wine opened later has received the most praise after sugarcane green plum wine.Shao Yan was also quite satisfied after tasting the taste, and carefully sealed the altar. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Shao's father squatting next to his wine jar, and a smile flashed in his eyes.

Before watching Shao’s father crush the grapes according to the recipe on the Internet and put sugar in the wine jar, he felt that something was wrong. The grapes that Shao’s father picked were the black agate variety that the proprietress in the fruit market shouted “not sweet, not expensive” , It's terribly sweet to eat without a stutter.Although fruit wine is called fruit wine, it only takes the nutrients and aroma of the fruit. If it is really sweet, it becomes a thing to fool children.

He squatted down and took a sip from Father Shao's spoon.Shao's father wanted to stop him, but because he was too frustrated, he didn't react, and watched Shao Yan gulp down.

Shao Yan smashed his mouth: "Not bad."

Shao's father was in a daze, his eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said brightly, "Really?"

Children are getting more and more tempered.

Shao Yan nodded, patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him: "It's very good."

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When Yan Daichuan returned home, he keenly noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere at home.

Ah Tong hurried past, raised his head and glanced at him, and disappeared in the shadow of the doorpost without even saying hello.

"..." Yan Daichuan didn't know what was wrong with him, walked in for a while, smelled the aroma of wine that shocked him, and immediately quickened his pace.

Before he stepped into the door of the restaurant, his arm was grabbed.

As soon as Yan Daichuan looked up, he found that the person holding him was Father Shao with an extremely excited expression, and he was immediately stunned. He hesitated for a moment, and was dragged in by the old man's rare strength.

Father Shao's eyes were extremely excited, his son praised the wine he brewed!Who is his son, a three-star chef in Gumei, the wine he brews has been served on the state banquet table, and now it is given as a gift to foreign guests!

Papa Shao was very happy. Although the wine did not suit his taste, the quality was undoubtedly excellent. It proved that he was quite talented in wine making!

"Oh, you young people are working too hard. What time does it take to get home. Are you tired? Are you hungry..."

This uncle's usual personality is similar to his own, he is stable and easy to show anger.The relationship between Yan Daichuan and him is still quite distant, not as close as that of Shao's mother. Hearing such creepy greetings at this time, but unable to shake off his hand holding him, he could only look around with questioning eyes.

Mother Shao turned her head silently, Li Yuke let out a long sigh, Yan Yi smiled and pretended to be Maitreya Buddha, and Shao Yan, who was sitting at the main table, looked up at him with a wine glass in his hand, and waved his hands helplessly, signaling him to cooperate.

"..." A small wine glass was stuffed into Yan Daichuan's hand, and he drank the liquid in the glass hesitantly under Shao's father's gaze...Grape juice?

Father Shao asked him excitedly, "How is it?"

Yan Daichuan's expression remained unchanged, and when he saw his mother nodding desperately over his shoulder, a sincere smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Very good!"

Father Shao took a deep breath, tried his best to tighten his proud expression, patted his shoulder and went out.

Yan Daichuan waited for him to leave before asking Shao Yan: "Why did your dad give me grape juice? Has he started to learn how to make juice from you?"

Shao Yan lay on the table laughing so hard that he couldn't speak, everyone in the room exchanged glances with Yan Daichuan, and silently looked away.

What?What's the meaning?

What's wrong with the family?

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Before Yumenxi's subsidiary is put on the agenda, the first thing is to set up the production line of the main products and drinks.

As I said earlier, running a winery is not an easy task. Father Shao has never been exposed to this kind of work before, so it can be said that he has no experience at all.Although the most difficult and complicated approval process for ordinary people is not a problem for him, Shao Yan's complicated and cumbersome processing work is a big problem far beyond the production of ordinary brand drinks.

The sugarcane fields and plum gardens have already been selected, and the season is approaching maturity. As long as you want to start construction, it won't be long before you can start picking.Father Shao’s originally planned machine production couldn’t be carried out. It’s not his fault. It’s just that Shao Yan’s production is too troublesome. The process of squeezing sugarcane juice is okay. You can handle it with a machine.

Therefore, the output is estimated to be not as good as previously imagined. As an aid, the kiwi fruit wine and bayberry wine that came out of the same batch also gained a place.

Everyone who makes wine knows that the quality of raw materials has a huge impact on wine.For example, the wineries that are blooming all over the world, the few that really stand at the top of the pyramid have been using the finished products produced in their own best-quality orchards for hundreds of years. The wines in country C have to be steamed, and the difference in taste may be It won't be that big, but people who really know how to do it can also drink that inconspicuous little difference.

Shao Yan loves all kinds of fruits. Soil sugarcane and black sugarcane are both good things for him. The taste of fruit cane is not as sweet as sugar cane, and the long, clear and sweet fruity aroma also has a special flavor.

The difference between bayberry and kiwi varieties is a little bit bigger, but he still prefers either one. If he can't let go of the other, he can only change the formula, and use different proportions of each.

This method will increase the difficulty of collecting raw materials, but Shao's father is not dissatisfied. The domestic copying culture is really too tough.If Yumenxi's wine really sells well, there will definitely be people who want to counterfeit it.It all depends on people's self-consciousness. Shao's father at the level of flavor and fake wine really can't control it, but complicating the production process should also stop some people's thoughts of crooked ways.

The production licenses for different varieties of sugarcane, kiwi, red bayberry, and greengage were approved almost as soon as they were handed in. Because Yumenxi has always talked about the relationship with the leaders these days, the department in charge of verification is very attentive and even dedicated Send someone to notify the relevant departments near the orchard site to take more care of the Shao family's property.

There are many fruits that are actually of really good quality, but it is a pity that they grow in mountain villages with inconvenient transportation, and only a few can be shipped out for sale. Some fruit farmers have worked hard for a whole year and can only rely on a small amount of finished products shipped out With a meager income, I don't know where Yan Daichuan collected so many varieties.

Around the production areas selected by Shao Yan, the decision to build roads was immediately put on the agenda. Such a big pie fell from the sky, and the local leaders almost fainted. A group of people really regarded the Shao family as the God of Wealth , and didn't know the details of the Shao family's background, it was simply 120 percent of his attention to the Shao family's affairs.

In the season when a large number of fruits are ripe, regardless of the cost, they are pulled to the Shao family's new winery that has not been opened to the outside world.

The winery was finally located in Province G, which is some distance away from City B. Province G is located in the southwestern part of the central part of Country C. It has a subtropical monsoon climate and is rich in fruits all year round. The quality of the fruits is even better.Among the wine-making materials, sugar cane and red bayberry are selected to be produced here. The site is selected here, one is for the convenience of material transportation, and the other is to facilitate the development of new varieties of wine in the future.

The people in Province G are simple and honest, and the young people are especially tough, and they are good at work.The location of the Shaojia Winery has solved the severe employment problem in the local area, and the local people who do not have much contact with the outside world are naturally more dedicated to doing things.

Some things, such as sugar cane juice, kiwi fruit stirring, wine distillation, etc., can be solved faster and better with precise machines, but some problems, such as the steaming of green plums, can only be solved by manpower.

However, these links that must be solved manually are still very important. For example, if there is moisture on the skin of green plums before fermentation, then the whole jar of wine will definitely fail in the end.Yan Daichuan had never opened a factory, and Shao's father had no experience in factory management. Fortunately, several managers recruited after the establishment of Shao's company did some research on it.After planning a reasonable and strict responsibility supervision system, Shao's father handed over the matters in the factory to the most cautious one among them.

Everything is in full swing. Before the beginning of winter, the winery that started work for the first time finally produced the perfect finished product of the first cellar.

The clear, slightly blue wine was placed in a small snow-white wine cup, and the two glasses next to it were light red bayberry wine and tender green kiwi fruit wine.

The big vat of wine brewed by Shao's father was placed in the most conspicuous place of the restaurant by Da Lala. At least Shao's mother persuaded him not to join in the fun with Kaifeng. There were several other glasses of that batch.

There are still slight differences.

For the previous batch of works, the color of the wine is clearer, and when it is poured into the glass, the impact sound is more crisp.Of course, such a small gap could never be seen with Father Shao's observation skills.

Shao Yan took a shallow sip, frowned slightly, and still looked a little dissatisfied: "The sweetness is not as good as my batch."

"Is there?!" Father Shao stared wide-eyed and drank the two glasses alternately, smashing it until he died without feeling the difference.

Shao Yan ignored him, pondered for a while, and sighed again.The difference in the quality of drinks is probably inevitable.

Not to mention working with machines now, it is just that before in the Yushanjian, the drinks and dishes were completely handmade, and the taste of his hands was more or less different from that of the apprentices.The method of processing materials, time, and the quality of raw materials that need to be identified by naked eyes, everyone has different standards and intuitions, which will have more or less influence on the final result.

Women are more careful. Although they are not good at appreciating wine, they tasted the two batches of wine carefully under the guidance of Shao Yan's description, and finally they did feel a little different.

The person in charge of the factory can't solve this problem. There is only one Shao Yan. If everyone's craftsmanship can be as good as his, then Yumenxi will not be able to become what it is today.

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The old customers of Yumenxi come to the store now, and they often ask questions about drinks after ordering.

The original purpose of brewing flower wine and passion fruit wine was to put them in the restaurant to accompany the guests, so even if the supply was in short supply, Shao's father still insisted on keeping most of them in the restaurant for dine-in customers.There is a limited purchase of drinks, one drink per person, and you can't make up for it after drinking it. There is also a limit for each meal. When that number is reached, the guests who order later will only be left with a sigh of relief.

The flower brew and passion fruit wine were still snatched up early, and the customers were extremely disappointed, but today was different. After saying sorry, the waiter at Yumenxi asked them again with a smile: "Today is there a new one in the store?" The green cane-flavored and vine-pear-flavored wines are new products that have not yet been launched by the wine brand subsidiary of Yumenshi, do you want to try them?"

Under Yumenxi?Subsidiary?Not listed yet?

Is Yumenxi going to drive away from the company that takes the drink route?

The news immediately spread among the surprised customers in the store, and everyone talked about it for a long time. The most curious question was nothing more than one question - will the flower brew and passion fruit wine be sold online?

The waiter smiled mysteriously: "I don't know, do you want the wines I mentioned?"

It’s okay without fish and shrimp!

Yes!

Yumenxi has already achieved a good reputation, and the old customers can still trust the quality of the food in the store.There is no limit to the purchase of new products, and the price is much cheaper than Huaniang and passion fruit wine, so ordering for a single table usually requires a whole pot.

The bottle of the new wine is also custom-made by Father Shao. The white ground blue flower ceramics are painted, and the main color of the painting is divided into multiple colors according to the wine region.The outer pattern of the green cane wine is a four-clawed green dragon, the dragon fills half of the slender bottle, and the bottle neck is painted with big characters on the imperial gate mat with fangs and claws. The style is wild, but it is really the traditional style of C country.

Guests who have never tasted sugarcane and plum flavored fruit wine heard the introduction of the ingredients, and thought that the green cane wine would be a soft fruit wine with the sweetness of sugarcane and the sour taste of green plums. overbearing.

The mellow wine is entrained with cane aroma and slips into the mouth, which is another flavor completely different from flower brewed and passion fruit wine.The cane flavor is very light, and after fading, the fragrance of plums will slowly be rolled up with the return of sweetness.Taste it carefully, the wine has a long aftertaste, and the mouth is full of fragrance. In the early winter weather, drink a few more sips, and the hands and feet of the whole person will become warm and mellow.

The strength of the wine is not small, but it is soft and does not make people feel the slightest discomfort.After drinking the wine, even the breath and speech are wrapped in a kind of fragrance, sip slowly and carefully, a bottle of wine with a large amount of wine is divided up in a short time.

Sure enough, it was the handwriting of Yumenshi!

The first batch of finished products from the winery were well received, and the spot goods delivered to the store were sold out on the same day. Many guests came here during dinner time to buy the new products that have been rumored among the old customer groups. , but with the exception of a few who were particularly lucky, most of them were in vain.

Everyone immediately complained.

Along with their various dissatisfaction and complaints, the news that Yumenxi was going to run a subsidiary company specializing in alcohol also spread all of a sudden.

Shao's father swiped the webpage with the mouse, pointing out the evaluations of Yumenxi's new drinks from various places, and pointed them one by one to Shao Yan with a stinking face.

"I told you that it's not that serious. If we all follow your standard, we won't do any business."

Shao Yan insisted on taking the quality route, but after seeing the market feedback, he felt that it was indeed different from what he had imagined.

Father Shao squinted his eyes and watched for a long time, and was very satisfied with the applause.He looked at the vat of wine he had brewed in the corner, his heart suddenly stopped, and he slapped his thigh and said: "It's not like you can only follow the route of your few wines, tomorrow I will make the wine I brewed." Also send it to the store to sell it and look forward to it, maybe the response will be very good by then!"

"..." Shao Yan turned his face away and lit a piece of wax for the guests who were estimated to be scammed tomorrow, "Just as long as you are happy."