The next day.
After the morning court session, Long Yunfeng followed Guo Huai to the newly built winery. The newly built winery wasn't large in scale. It was an expansion of the royal winery and was used to experiment with new wine-making techniques.
In order to ensure the secrecy of the distilled liquor, Long Yunfeng gave the people here a high salary. At the same time, he chose the old men who made the wine for the royal family. At the same time, he was stricter with the people who made the distilled liquor.
After everything was arranged properly, it was time to start making the distilled liquor.
Guo Huai led Long Yunfeng into the winery.
"Master Liang, is everything ready?”
Master Liang was the winemaker of the royal family of Qin. He had been working for the royal family for thirty years since he was nine years old. He was loyal and reliable. Although the wine he brewed was not as good as the wine in Tang, the royal family of Qin liked the wine brewed by Master Liang very much.
"Your Majesty, everything has been prepared according to your request.”Master Liang stood at the side and answered respectfully.
"Let's begin!"
Since it was the first time, they only brewed one pot at the beginning. The rest of the people surrounded and watched.
Long Yunfeng continued to brew the wine. Now that the glutinous rice was almost done soaking, Long Yunfeng asked someone to pour the glutinous rice into the steamer.
The first step of brewing wine was to distill. At this stage, the glutinous rice that had been drained of water had to be steamed.
After waiting at the side for an hour, Long Yunfeng relied on his sensitivity in brewing wine to get someone to take out the ripe glutinous rice. At this moment, the glutinous rice was plump and crystal clear. Under the sunlight, it looked very moving.
Long Yunfeng even had the urge to eat the glutinous rice when he saw it. However, this was just a thought, but it was enough to prove that the quality of the glutinous rice was excellent.
At this moment, the next step was to cool down. If the machine didn't cool down, even if Long Yunfeng had it, he wouldn't use it. Long Yunfeng was particular about being natural, so he wanted to cool it naturally.
However, this wasn't a problem for Long Yunfeng. He asked his men to carry the steaming bucket filled with hot glutinous rice into the living room and turn the air conditioner to the lowest temperature. Indeed, it didn't take long for the glutinous rice to completely cool down.
Long Yunfeng watched as everyone took a full two and a half hours to finish these complicated matters, but he didn't show any impatience. Only by putting in the most effort could he brew a peerless wine.
Therefore, in just one afternoon, he had completed the fermentation that would take ten days elsewhere. Then, the next step was to carry out the next step of purification.
Distillation was a very important process in the entire winemaking process. It could even be said that the quality of the wine brewed was directly related to the operation of the Distillation.
From this, one could see the importance of retorting in the winemaking process.
This was a long waiting process.
Long Yunfeng could only sit at the side and chat with everyone, waiting for the extraction process.
As time passed, the fire in the stove was still burning. Now that the weather was getting hotter and hotter, it burned even more vigorously.
Slowly, Long Yunfeng could smell the fragrance of the wine. It seeped into his mind and intoxicated him. The smell was faint, but it made him want to get drunk.
"The wine is out."
Someone shouted. A little wine flowed out of the bamboo pipe and slowly dripped into the empty wine jar.
More and more wine came out, from dripping to flowing.
"It smells so good."
"It's the fragrance of wine."
" This can really produce wine. Moreover, the fragrance of the wine…"
More and more wine came out, and the fragrance of the wine slowly filled the entire room.
Master Liang took a deep breath and said,""No, this wine fragrance is wrong."
"Master Liang, what's wrong with this wine fragrance? Isn't it the wine fragrance that we smell every day? You have to know that this wine was personally brewed by you.”
The other winemaker felt that Master Liang's words were a little strange, so he asked.
"Master Wang, smell it carefully. The fragrance of the wine is still the same, but I feel that the fragrance of the wine now is more, more mellow. Yes, it's more mellow, as if it's a wine that has been aged for several years.”
Master Liang was so excited that he almost cried out.
The man who was called Master Wang by Master Liang leaned closer to the place where the wine came out. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes, as if he was savoring it.
"Yes, this wine fragrance is indeed different.”Master Wang also shouted excitedly.
As Master Wang shouted, the scene became lively. There were many wine tasting experts present. Although they felt that something was wrong before, they couldn't tell what was wrong. Now that Master Liang and Master Liang had said it, everyone understood. One by one, they went over to smell the wine.
For them, the fragrance of wine was the first step in tasting wine. Sometimes, they could even determine the quality of wine by smelling the fragrance of wine.
A group of people gathered around the wine pipe, smelling the fragrance of the wine as if they were drunk. This made Long Yunfeng, who was at the side, not know whether to laugh or cry.
"Alright, everyone, you've smelled enough of this wine. Why don't you try it?”
After Long Yunfeng said this, the masters felt that they had lost their composure. It was also not elegant for them to kneel around the wine jar. However, although they stood up, their eyes were still staring at the wine jar.
"Go get a few cups." Master Liang instructed an apprentice to get a wine cup. There were many wine vessels in the winery because the winemakers often tasted the newly brewed wine.
Not long after, the acolyte brought a plate with many wine glasses and wine making tools.
Master Liang hurriedly took some wine and carefully poured it into the wine glass.
He was not in a hurry to drink it. Instead, he sniffed and sniffed first, then carefully observed the color of the wine.
The second step of tasting wine was to observe the 'color' of the wine. This wine was very clear. It was not like the previous wine. No matter how he 'made' it, there were many turbid things. It could not be so clear and transparent.
Master Liang was observing the color of the wine while the other winemakers were surrounding him, looking at him anxiously.
They did not even dare to breathe loudly. Hence, a strange scene appeared in the retort. A group of people surrounded Master Liang. They were sometimes nervous and sometimes relaxed as Master Liang moved.
Master Liang finally finished looking at the color of the wine and took a sip.
Master Liang frowned. The group of winemakers who were watching immediately became nervous.
Then, Master Liang relaxed his brows and took another sip of wine. The wine in Master Liang's mouth slowly squirmed. He was focused as he savored it.
Master Liang suddenly downed the entire glass of wine and shouted,""Good wine, good wine."
Following Master Liang's shout, the group of people came back to their senses and asked,"How is it? How is it? How is this wine?”
Master Liang closed his eyes to savor the taste of the wine. Then, he said,"It's the best wine I've ever had in my life.”
Even though they hadn't drunk, the group of people were excited with Master Liang. Master Liang was the best Wine Master among them. If he said it was a masterpiece, then it was a masterpiece.
"Haha, thank you all for your hard work. It's all thanks to everyone's hard work that we can brew good wine.”Long Yunfeng was very happy. This meant that Long Yunfeng had another source of income. He now had a top-grade product. The combination of good wine and good food would definitely be a perfect match.
As Long Yunfeng spoke, the winemakers felt embarrassed. They had completely forgotten about the emperor.
"Your Majesty, I was too excited just now and forgot about you.”Master Liang took the lead and stood out to apologize to the Emperor.
"Haha, it's fine. This means that this wine is really good.”Long Yunfeng smiled and didn't blame them, so the winemakers were relieved.
"Come, come, come. It's better to have fun with everyone than to have fun alone.”
Long Yunfeng took the lead and took a cup, directly pouring wine into it.
When they saw Long Yunfeng take the wine, the others hurriedly took their cups to take the wine.
Everyone held a glass of wine in their hands and Ye Chen said loudly,"Thank you for your efforts for the royal family. I will drink first as a form of respect. I hope that everyone will continue to work hard in the future and live a stable and comfortable life together.”
After saying that, Long Yunfeng downed the wine in one gulp. Seeing how polite Long Yunfeng was and how well he treated them, the others all picked up their cups and drank.
"Puff!"
"Cough cough."
"Ah!"
"Haha!"
Many people had just poured the wine into their mouths when some directly spat it out, while others choked until tears flowed down.
Long Yunfeng had drunk a lot of strong alcohol in his later life, so he was mentally prepared. However, other people usually drank a few degrees of white wine, so it would be strange if they didn't choke when they suddenly drank such strong alcohol in one gulp.
If he had started to slowly taste it like Master Liang, he would have been fine.
"Blame me, blame me, blame me for not warning you. This wine is different from ordinary wine. This wine is very strong.”Master Liang quickly came out and apologized.
At this moment, even if Master Liang didn't say it, everyone knew.
Thus, Long Yunfeng asked them to get another cup of wine and slowly taste it.
Everyone slowly savored the wine and gathered together again.
"Your Majesty, I didn't expect the wine to undergo such a huge change after being distilled like this. It's simply an earth-shaking change.”
"Yes, Your Majesty, how did you come up with this idea? It's amazing.”
Everyone started talking at once.
After Long Yunfeng signaled for everyone to be quiet, he said,"Everyone can see that this wine has become more mellow after being distilled. Not only that, even the color is incomparably clear. However, everyone doesn't know that it's not just that.”
"Oh, Your Majesty, is there anything else unique?”Master Wang hurriedly asked. It was obvious that he was already 'obsessed' with this wine.
"This wine is so clear because there are no impurities in the wine. It's not like before. No matter how much it is filtered, there will still be food residue and it will be a little turbid.”
"Yes, the winemakers nodded. They clearly understand this point.”
Long Yunfeng continued," Then, the quality of the wine with grain residue is not so good, and it's easy to go bad. However, the wine that has been distilled is not easy to go bad. The longer it is left, the more mellow it is, and the better it tastes."”
"Oh!"
Everyone believed Long Yunfeng's words without a doubt.
"Your Majesty, I think this is a brand new wine and should have a brand new name. Why don't you give this wine a name?”
Master Liang's suggestion received everyone's approval.
"Alright, this wine doesn't need a loud name. Let's just name it 'Wine of General'."
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