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"You can also make wine?" Yuri looked surprised.

"You want to make counterfeit wine?" Saul is worthy of being a lawyer and gets to the core of the problem.

"Can you speak? How can this be called fake wine?" Sean glanced at Saul, "Can this be called fake?"

"What else?" Sol spread his hands.

"How can the brewer's story be called fake!"

"This is called a copycat!"

Seeing that Sol wanted to ask, Sean waved his hand and continued: "Yuri, how much does a bottle of this French brandy cost while you are taking it?"

"55 U.S. dollars. The market price for normal imports is 120 U.S. dollars. It would cost more than 400 U.S. dollars in regular bars. However, our bars only sell this kind of contraband for more than 200 U.S. dollars. Of course, few people want a bottle. Most of them treat it as

Base wine.”

"If I mix it out, then the cost of a bottle of wine will only be about 0.5 US dollars. If the quantity is large, it may be 0.3 US dollars per bottle." Sean had a mysterious smile on his face.

"Oh my god, this is impossible!"

"Are you joking!"

"How could it be so cheap!" Sol and his friends had their eyes hanging out, holding their heads, with disbelief on their faces.

Sean snapped his fingers confidently, "It's so cheap. Of course, the bottle, outer packaging, transportation, and labor are not included. I'm talking about the pure value of the wine."

"How much are those things worth? Do they add up to 2 dollars!" Saul waved his hands and yelled exaggeratedly.

"The profits of poisonous drugs? Can poisonous drugs be sold to the public?"

"The scale of the drug trade...well, this should be bigger than the alcohol market, but not much bigger."

"But the profit ratio of pan-drugs is too low." Sean sneered and shook his head, with disdain on his face, "Only gangsters and uncultured people like that kind of low-end stuff."

"Low-end, ignorant!"

"This, more than 20 times profit, this is impossible, this is too exaggerated!" Yuri propped his hands on the table, looked at the glassware, his mind was confused, and he murmured unconsciously.

"I don't think those wineries have such huge profits. As far as I know, many French wineries don't make much money, and some even lose money." Sol frowned tightly.

"Nonsense, others made it. I made it by blending it. How can it be the same?" Sean rolled his eyes. "Do you know how much time and labor it takes to make a good bottle of brandy?

?”

Brandy is not just white.

Like liquor, brandy is also a distilled spirit, but the raw material is grapes or fruits, but it must be placed in wooden barrels for many years after production. The best age is between 25 and 40 years old.

The barrels are mainly oak barrels, and different oak barrels have different flavors. The "black oak barrels" are Armagnac, and the "Leadson" oak barrels store mostly Cognac.

There is the term "Cognac" in brandy. Cognac is a region. Only grape distilled wine that has been fermented, distilled and stored in oak barrels in this region can be called Cognac, but not from other regions.

Cognac is divided into many grades, VS grade (wine age less than 4 and a half years), VSOP grade (wine age between 4 and a half to 6 and a half years), XO grade (more than 6 and a half years old), dry

The longer the wine is stored, the better the quality and the higher the price.

All brandy distilleries use letters to distinguish quality, E (special) F (good) V (very good) O (old) S (fine) P (light and old) X (extraordinary)

Therefore, this bottle of Real Golden Flower V. S. O. P. Camus is a wine that has been aged for more than 4 and a half years, so the price is really not expensive.

If nothing else, inflation alone will cause prices to rise by a higher level.

"The cost of a bottle of wine like ours depends on how much a kilogram of alcohol is." Sean smiled and spread his hands, "As for pigments and flavors, do we need to consider the price of those things?"

Sol and the two stood there dumbly, shaking their heads following Sean's words. This profit really frightened the two of them.

"One ton of edible alcohol can produce approximately 4,000 bottles of this 700ml bottle. If it is sold at the smuggling price of 45 yuan, no, only 40 yuan, that is 160,000 US dollars!"

"As for the cost, it all depends on how much alcohol costs per ton. I remember the market price is around US$700 per ton."

Sean shrugged, "Actually, you can also use industrial alcohol, which is cheaper."

"No, no, no, my God, this is already amazing, you actually want to use industrial alcohol, you damn capitalist, vampire!" Yuri did not doubt Sean's words. He couldn't help but rush over and grab Sean.

The shoulders were laughing crazily, and the little tongue was clearly visible.

On the other hand, Thor was much calmer, but he couldn't help but tremble a little when he spoke, "You, you, are you really worthy of it? This, this is simply ridiculous. Those people have worked hard to make it for hundreds of years.

Things can actually be made at such a low price, and the profit is so high, then...then what kind of wine do you want to make, just blend it like you."

"First of all, what I want to say is that all wines can be blended." Sean said with a very certain tone: "As long as the craftsmanship is good enough and accurate enough, at least for ordinary people, they can't really drink it at all.

Fake, of course, there are people like sommeliers, but I’m not going to sell to them.”

"Second, there are so many different lines. It's just that you don't understand the 'wine' industry." Sean muttered in his heart, I will tell you, I was working in QHD Changli, Hebei Province. Before I was shot in the head, I was specialized in this industry.

Master of fake wine?

"In fact, the largest consumer group of wine is ordinary people, and they can't tell whether it's real or fake. The reason why they still have to work hard is entirely because they want to shape culture, taste, and style. At the same time, they also want to raise the threshold of competition and give others

It’s just setting up obstacles for those who want to join the industry.”

"It's like cognac. If you change the region and use the same craftsmanship, it wouldn't be called French cognac, and it wouldn't be the best brandy."

"Those drunk guys in the bar, if you give them a bottle of horse urine, they can drink it down." Sean curled his lips, "It's like the law is there. Whether it is a crime or not, the judge can just impose the penalty directly according to the provisions of the law.

Why do you need a lawyer?”

When talking about his job, Saul immediately retorted, "When there is a lawyer, the judge is just a neutral person. He treats both the defense and the prosecution..."

"Okay, I'm not here to discuss this issue with you, I'm here to tell you the truth." Sean interrupted Saul with a wave of his hand.

"Okay, why are you talking so much?" Yuri waved his hand vigorously. This guy is an action person who doesn't want to use his brain. "Come on, Sean, deploy it and show us. Then you will know everything."

"OK!" Sean gestured, "I've already prepared the alcohol content, and now I'm going to start adjusting the color."

"This requires some pigments. The commonly used pigments are red, yellow, blue, and green, including capsicum red, beet red, monascus red, sodium copper chlorophyll, turmeric, gardenia yellow, phycocyanin, cocoa pigment, and caramel color.

What."

"This stuff is divided into food coloring and industrial coloring. I am more conscientious and use food grade."

"Food can be divided into natural pigments and synthetic pigments. The one I choose is synthetic."

"Cheap!!"

Sol gave a thumbs up. If you don’t get rich, you’ll blame him. Damn, it’s totally unreasonable!

The street lights must have one of yours!

"You can also use natural pigments." Yuri couldn't stand it, and added, "This stuff is cheap, and the cost in wine is probably less than 1 cent."

"Stupid!" Sean raised his head and glared at Yuri, "Who said natural pigments must be better than synthetic ones."

"Although some synthetic pigments are indeed not very good, such as amaranth, which can cause cancer, but that is the result of long-term consumption."

"The main thing is that natural pigments are more complex and are not as easy to adjust as synthetic pigments, do you understand?"

"It's so easy to mix a color!"

Yuri was so reprimanded that he didn't dare to speak, but Sol pouted quietly. He still felt that Sean was too expensive.

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Chapter 7 can’t be published, it’s so crazy, it’s just under review...