A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Kai and Shinano later merged to form Yamanashi Prefecture. 86% of the entire territory is mountainous and hilly. Every piece of flat land is a battleground for military strategists. People's brains are like dogs' brains.

However, the vast mountain forests also provide a large number of by-products for Jiaxin. Since ancient times, Jiaxin has said that it has eight treasures: chestnuts, persimmons, grapes, pomegranates, ringo fruits, pears, ginkgo and ginkgo, and peaches, which are famous at home and abroad.

Japan (shield) has a typical temperate maritime monsoon climate, with high temperatures and rainy summers. In addition, we are in the Little Ice Age, and sometimes heavy rains in summer can even cause large-scale floods.

Moreover, Japan's soil has been explained in detail before. The Kanto region, including Koshinobu, is completely acidic soil that is not suitable for farming.

Due to multiple unfavorable factors, Jiaxin seems completely unsuitable for growing grape crops. But the reality is that Yamanashi Prefecture is now the number one grape and wine producing area in Japan (sometimes Yamagata Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture will surpass it), and the best grapes are even sold by the grape, how much does one cost.

Why is this?

It's very simple. It's basically impossible for man to conquer nature, so don't think about it, but it's absolutely fine to adapt to transformation on a small scale. Soil improvement has taken place over hundreds of years, and the widespread use of grass fertilizers has resulted in alkaline soil suitable for farming throughout Jiaxin.

Secondly, Jiaxin has a special terrain, with many mountains, slopes, and forests. The mountainous areas within the country have a high altitude, which results in a large temperature difference between day and night in the Jiaxin area in summer, which is very conducive to the storage of sugar in grapes and is more conducive to ripening. In addition, although the slopes receive a lot of precipitation, they also drain quickly, and the overall drainage conditions are good, making wild grapes less likely to rot and mildew during their growth.

These are just wild grapes. Artificially grown grapes have long been grown on trellises. (The Hokkaido area is not within the scope of the discussion. Local grape trellises are built low.) Use bamboo and wood trellises to raise the grapevines and prune them appropriately so that the leaves can fully contact the sun and flowing air. In this way, the impact of excessive moisture can be greatly reduced, or even almost eliminated.

The scope of artificially cultivated grapes is not large, that is, they are only used as fresh fruits to try in summer. However, the "Koshu" grape that became very famous later was probably born out of these small vineyards today, and has a long history.

Xiao Pingtai doesn't know how to make wine. This thing is also a technical job. But Xiaoping doesn't know how to do it, but Father William next door does.

Wine has a special status in Christianity. Over the long years, due to the universality of its existence and the particularity of its color, it has slowly become a substitute for the blood of the Son of God in religious ceremonies.

Wherever there are churches and monasteries, there must be wine. Almost all qualified churches and monasteries have their own orchards and vineyards to produce wine. After all, too many religious ceremonies need to use it.

With the hundreds of thousands of Christians in Japan today, this is a huge untapped market. If we use wine imported from Europe, how expensive will it be? If it is made domestically, the shipping cost alone can be almost completely eliminated.

What's more, if the price is not expensive and becomes popular, the future will be even more promising.

Of course, there is no need to hide the nature of wild grapes. The sweetness is completely insufficient. Without ten or twenty years of artificial cultivation, it is difficult to cultivate grapes that are completely suitable for sweet wine.

Not to mention that wild grapes are not sweet enough, but the lack of sweetness is only part of it. They are also small, sour, astringent, and lacking in moisture, which makes them very unpalatable.

In reality, this kind of wild grape can only be allowed to grow and rot at will in the wild.

Some people think that they can use him to make vinegar, and fruit vinegar is naturally a direction. However, Xiao Pingtai is very worried about the rate of fruit vinegar produced by Wild Grape. After all, he has never done it before.

It seems that this is a dead end and making wine is not possible. Making vinegar from fruit pulp or pressing oil from grape seeds has a reliable return rate.

But this does not prevent the Japanese (shielded) people from having smart people, and this smart person will be born in about ten or twenty years, so it would not be too forward-thinking for Xiaoping to plagiarize his methods.

Taroemon Ueda was a wine merchant. With his merits in wine making, he was actually promoted to a samurai by the feudal lord Hosokawa Tadayoshi (do you want to introduce him more?), and he rose to the top in one step.

What is his solution?

Add black bean yeast to wild grapes!

As for the girl who stepped on the grapes during the brewing process, she stepped on the grapes in the wooden basin with her bare feet. We won’t describe this content in too much detail. It’s not modern industrial production anyway. It’s not strange to use a little human and animal power.

Just know it well! Just saying it makes me sick!

Black beans are added to the wine making process of wild grapes to promote the fermentation of wild grapes with a relatively low sugar content. This means that essentially, the wine is made by fermenting wild grapes, rather than simply soaking wild grapes in alcohol.

Although there may be a certain gap between the taste and the fine red wine, it is definitely enough to deal with Japan, a brand-new market that has not yet been exposed to wine on a large scale.

Thinking of this, Xiaoping took a rough look at the terrain. After there were no problems, he hurried down the mountain.

"Father, do you know how to make wine?"

"Yes, this is a necessary skill for us."

"So you know about the construction of the brewery and the setup of the wine cellar?"

"certainly!"

"Hahahahahaha, God help me!"

Koheita hurriedly summoned Imagawa's adoptive relatives, his old father-in-law Hosokawa's erotic palace, and his uncle Hosokawa's daughter-in-law, and wrote the verdict with his own hands.

Immediately, the horse was sent back to the mountain to discuss a suitable price, make it public, and announce to the local people the full purchase of wild grapes.

Anyway, the wild grapes still have nearly two months to mature, which is enough time to build a winemaking workshop and a wine cellar to store the wine.

The most valuable thing in this world is labor. Is it difficult to find masons and carpenters? Just tell us the shape of a wooden basin or barrel, and the carpenter will be able to make it. It is difficult to deal with French oak oak, summer oak, and American white oak.

Wine and oak barrels complement each other and complement each other. When it comes to red wine, oak barrels are definitely what comes to mind.

Does the Japanese (shielded) version have oak wood? Actually there is none. But there is another type of wood that is very easy to use. It’s Japan (shielded) this Mizunara!

Because Mizunara is rich in internal fat, it even exhibits the smell of ancient oriental woody spices such as sandalwood and agarwood. It can give the wine a coconut flavor and sometimes even a citrus fruity flavor.

What a perfect match!