Xia Ruofei watched with great interest, and the workers were very skillful in spreading out the baskets of grapes, and then carefully removing the grape stems.

"In summer, the stems contain a lot of tannins, which give them a sour taste, so in order to keep the wine fresh, the stems must be removed. We have always used the most traditional techniques to make wine, which are done by hand, which is less efficient, but the quality of the wine is much higher!"

Xia Ruofei smiled and nodded and said: "Yes, quality is the most important thing, and my farm in China is also a boutique route!"

Feng Jing also said with a smile on the side: "Now we all advocate the spirit of craftsmen in China, I saw Uncle West and them making wine, and I really felt the spirit of craftsmen!"

Cabelli said with a smile: "This winemaking method has been passed down for one or two hundred years, and now many wineries have introduced advanced machinery, but West has always stubbornly adhered to the traditional brewing method! Although the efficiency has become lower and the labor cost has increased a lot, he just refuses to change!"

"I must praise Uncle West!" Xia Ruofei said with a smile, "It is not possible to rush for quick success in any line, only by doing every detail to the extreme, can we make a real boutique!"

Some of the workers are concentrating on removing the stems, while others break the skins of the grapes and place them in sterilized stainless steel containers, each filled with which they are carried into a small cold storage next to the winery.

"Aunt Cabelli, what are you doing that?" Feng Jing asked with some curiosity.

"In order to extract the aroma of the grapes and the active ingredients in the skin, and to enhance the original fresh and fruity aroma of the grape varieties, we will soak the broken grapes and grape juice at a controlled temperature before extracting the juice, so that the taste of the wine will be more rich and rounded!"

"Oh!

"Feng, in fact, this process is very boring!" Cabelli said with a smile, "The low-temperature soaking procedure takes more than ten hours, and the juicing can only start tomorrow at the earliest, so ...... Why don't you let Natsu take you around the vineyard?"

Xia Ruofei smiled and said, "It's okay! By the way, Aunt Cabelli, are you picking grapes in the vineyard?

Aunt Cabelli smiled and shook her head and said, "There's no one working in the vineyard right now!"

"Oh, why is that?" Xia Ruofei was a little surprised.

Aunt Cabelli explains with a smile: "White grapes are very sensitive to temperature, and high temperatures can destroy the elegant sound of white grapes themselves, increasing the risk of oxidation and microbial infection, so the harvest is mostly done in the early hours of the morning, before the sun has fully risen. And when harvesting, you should also be very careful to keep the fruit as intact as possible. ”

"Is it so troublesome?" Xia Ruofei said, "Isn't it very hard for Uncle West......?

"We're all used to it, and every year the harvest is a bit harder. Aunt Cabelli said with a smile, "But it's also very fulfilling!"

"That's not good! You're old, you can......'t stand it like this," Xia Ruofei said, "It's really not good, just hire someone to keep an eye on the vineyard, and you and Uncle West won't get up so early!"

"Yes! Feng Jing also said, "It's still about the body!"

Aunt Cabelli smiled and waved her hand and said, "He won't be at ease if he hands it over to someone else! Besides, we will also pay attention to rest, I take turns resting with him during the day when we make wine, and we also go to bed early at night, just this time, just wait for all the grapes to be picked." ”

Xia Ruofei couldn't resist her, so he could only say helplessly: "Then hire more workers and finish picking the grapes as soon as possible!

Aunt Cabelli smiled and said: "Xia, thank you for your concern, but the ripeness of the grapes is different, and the number of picks each time is calculated, and increasing manpower will not solve the problem!

"Okay, you must pay attention to rest!" Xia Ruofei said.

"Good, good!" said Aunt Cabelli with a smile.

Xia Ruofei thought for a while and said, "Since there is no one working on the vineyard, then we won't be able to go." As...... Let's help with the work, too!"

Aunt Cabelli was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Okay......! I'll take you to wash your hands and sanitize ......."

There is no technical content in removing the stems and skins of this grape, and the only requirement is to be careful, so Aunt Cabelli is not worried that the two of them will affect the progress of the workers' work.

After Xia Ruofei and Feng Jing washed their hands, they joined the work team with great interest.

At first, Aunt Cabelli was a little worried that they were careless and failed to remove the grape stems, but after working with the two of them for a while, she was completely relieved.

Both are very meticulous, and although the work efficiency is not as high as those skilled workers, the quality of the work is very high.

And after Xia Ruofei got used to it for a while, the efficiency of his work also improved, and he quickly removed the grape stems, which looked no different from those skilled workers.

One morning, everyone was busy working, processing more than half of the grapes picked in the previous two days.

Xia Ruofei was worried that Feng Jing was tired and persuaded her to go to the side to rest for a while, but Feng Jing insisted on working with everyone and refused to rest at all.

Seeing Feng Jing's sweaty appearance, Xia Ruofei couldn't help but feel a little distressed in his heart.

After the morning handiwork, he immediately went over and poured a glass of water for Feng Jing, and after blocking everyone's sight, he secretly took out a few drops of petal solution from the space and dripped them into the water, and then brought them to Feng Jing.

"Sister Jing, drink some water!" Xia Ruofei said with a smile.

"Yo, the boss is personally serving, how can I be a little flattered!" Feng Jing said with a grin.

"Are you still poor, hurry up and take a breath! Look at the ...... you are tired," Xia Ruofei said.

Feng Jingyan smiled, took the cup and drank it, then winked at Xia Ruofei and said, "I'm not tired!

"Don't do it!" Xia Ruofei said, "I'll rest on the farm in the afternoon......

"I'm really not tired!" Feng Jing said, "I think it's quite interesting! In China, sitting in the office all day long, the cervical spine and lumbar spine are strained, and I occasionally do physical work, and I feel relaxed all over!"

Old West walked over, gave a thumbs up to the two, and said, "Xia, Feng, your de-stalking skills are already great! Thank you for your help!"

Xia Ruofei shrugged and said, "Uncle West, if you want to say thank you, it should be me, I thank you! Aunt Cabelli has already told me that you have worked very hard during this time!"

Old West smiled and said, "It's hard work, but the sense of accomplishment is high! Summer, the grape varieties you offer are amazing! Not only did they produce grapes that were completely up to winemaking standards in the first year, but they were of higher quality than any semillon I had seen in the last few decades! I can't wait to see what kind of wine can be made from them!"

Feng Jing asked curiously in Chinese, "Ruofei, did you provide this grape seedling?"

Xia Ruofei smiled and said, "Well, I just happened to know a good semillon grape, so I imported a batch to the Hunter Valley, and then asked Uncle West to dig up all the grapes that were originally planted and replant them with the new varieties I provided!"

"You're too bold, aren't you?" said Feng Jing, "what if there is a problem with this vine?

Xia Ruofei shrugged and said, "Uncle West thought so at the beginning, but ...... Isn't it proven now?

After the two chatted in a low voice, Xia Ruofei said to the two: "Uncle West, Aunt Cabelli, then we will go back to the farm first, and come back in the afternoon!"

"Let's eat here!" Aunt Cabelli said quickly, "I'll make you something to eat!"

"No, no, no!" Xia Ruofei waved his hand and said, "The farm is ready, let's go back and eat directly!"

The two old men have been working so hard these days, Xia Ruofei really doesn't want to trouble them, because if the two of them stay for dinner, Aunt Kabeli will definitely have to prepare a very hearty lunch, everyone is so tired from work, how can they be embarrassed!

"Alright then!" said Old West, "but you can rest on the farm in the afternoon! you don't need to come and help......

Xia Ruofei pointed at Feng Jing with a smile and said, "Originally, I also arranged it like this, but Sister Jing didn't want to!

"Haha! Come on!" said Old West happily, "but take care of your rest, and don't work as hard as you did in the morning!"

In the morning, Xia Ruofei and Feng Jing worked harder than those workers, and the two of them together processed more than ten or twenty baskets of grapes, and even the old West couple secretly admired.

"Got it!" Xia Ruofei said, "The sun is very poisonous at noon, you should also rest and rest, don't work too early!"

The two said goodbye and left West's Winery and returned to Wonderland Farm for lunch.

In Wonderland Farm, Xia Ruofei also saw the full-time deputy manager of the farm again, although Liang Qichao deliberately covered it up, he still saw from some inadvertent small details that Liang Qichao and Devra should have been together.

While helping to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, Xia Ruofei muttered in Liang Qichao's ear: "Okay, buddy! Come to Australia to raise my country's prestige! This foreign girl is very good, think about how to pass your father's level, and then marry her home!"

Liang Qichao said with a bitter face: "I haven't skimmed the eight characters yet! Besides, my dad is old-fashioned, you don't know it...... How could he have agreed to me marry......ing a foreign woman? Can you help me figure it out?"

Xia Ruofei laughed and said, "I'm sorry, I can't help it! You better figure it out yourself!haha...... Take a nap!"

"Hey!" Liang Qichao shouted, but Xia Ruofei didn't stop, and soon walked up the stairs in three steps and two steps, Liang Qichao was so angry that he threw the rag in his hand into the sink, and said, "It's too unrighteous......

In the afternoon, Xia Ruofei and Feng Jing were still working with the workers on the boring work of breaking the skin and removing the stems of grapes.

By the time they had finished processing all the grapes, it was completely dark.

Xia Ruofei still politely declined the invitation of the old West couple to have dinner together, and took Feng Jing back to Wonderland Farm directly.

The next day, Xia Ruofei and Feng Jing rushed to the West Winery early.

"Uncle West, won't you still break your skin and get rid of the stalk today?" Xia Ruofei asked as soon as they met, "This job is so boring!"

West was organizing the workers to move the grapes picked in the early hours of this morning into the warehouse, and said with a smile: "This new batch of grapes should be removed as soon as possible, but this work is in charge of Cabelli, our grapes from yesterday have been soaked at low temperatures, and we can move on to the next step today!"

Xia Ruofei's eyes lit up and said, "That's great!

"Right now!" said Old West, "come with me!"

Old West took Xia Ruofei and Feng Jing to the winemaking workshop of the winery, although he always insisted on using traditional techniques to make wine, but Old West also did not reject new technologies, such as in terms of sanitary conditions, which are much better than those of the ancestors hundreds of years ago.

After a strict disinfection procedure, everyone was allowed into the brewery by Old West.

Putting on rubber gloves, Old West said, "The first thing to do today is the juicing process! This must be done by the experienced old winemakers, Bill, they are all old fellows! They will come with me to juice the grapes that have been soaked at low temperatures!"

Beside Old West, several gray-haired old workers showed hearty smiles at Xia Ruofei.

This time, Xia Ruofei and Feng Jing couldn't intervene, so they watched Old West pour the grapes into a special container, and then squeeze the juice by hand, and the grape juice would flow from the small tube at the bottom of the container into the stainless steel barrel.

"The juice extraction process must be fast and contact with the air must be avoided as much as possible, because the oxygen in the air can cause oxidation, deterioration and discoloration of the must," says the elder West. At the same time, the movement should be very gentle, otherwise too much pressure may cause the grape skin to crack, release tannins and other substances and cause a bitter taste. ”

Xia Ruofei nodded and said, "It seems that this process is quite critical!"

"Haha, Xia, don't worry! We old lads have been doing this for decades, and it's absolutely fine!" said Old West with a smile.

Old West: They were very efficient, and they processed all yesterday's grapes in half a day.

Workers carry sealed stainless steel barrels containing grape juice into a small cold storage and place them neatly.

"In the summer, the juice needs to be cooled so that the large particles are deposited at the bottom of the vessel, and all we need to make wine is the supernatant that we use for fermentation," says West.

"How long will it take?" Xia Ruofei asked.

Old West smiled and said, "It's almost this time tomorrow! Some wineries often use centrifuges for convenience, but this will cause the yeast to be removed and artificial yeast needs to be added." ”

Xia Ruofei laughed and said, "I know, this is absolutely unbearable for Uncle West, who insists on traditional craftsmanship!"

"Hahaha!" Old West laughed, "yes! Such an innovation is wrong! They can say that I am old-fashioned, but I just stick to my own opinion!"

"I like to be so old-fashioned!" Xia Ruofei gave a thumbs up and said with a smile, "So...... We'll come back tomorrow!"

In the afternoon, the winery must continue to break the skin and remove the stems of the newly picked grapes, Xia Ruofei really felt a little bored, so he decided to take Feng Jing to play in the Hunter Valley, and continue to experience traditional winemaking tomorrow.