Rebirth of the Super Landlord

The Niagara Peninsula is located between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie in the Great Lakes region. It is the southernmost tip of Ontario, Canada. It is separated from New York State in the United States by only the Niagara River.

Niagara is one of Canada's major wine-producing regions, with more than 5,000 hectares of vineyards. 90% of Canada's ice wine is produced here, and 10% is produced in British Columbia. There are only these two in Canada.

Only ice wine from a certain production area is recognized as ice wine.

Of course, these were all things that Frank from the University of California taught Su Zhen. In fact, Su Zhen didn't even know where Niagara was before.

The Luther family's icewine winery is located at the northernmost tip of the Niagara Peninsula, close to the Niagara River and Lake Ontario. It is across the lake from Toronto, the provincial capital of Ontario and Canada's largest city. (Actually, Lake Ontario is so big... you can't even see the other side.

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The plane landed at an airport near the town of Niagara. There was already a vehicle waiting at the airport and we drove directly to the winery.

As soon as you enter the winery, the first thing you notice is naturally the endless grape vines. The rows of grape vines are arranged very neatly. They are different from those grown on grape trellises that Su Zhen saw in China before. The grape vines here are

The trellises are made of wooden stakes connected in series by ropes. Grape vines climb on the wooden stakes and then grow along the ropes, giving it a "tree" feel. At this time, grapes have been hung on the vines, but they are still green.

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Seeing these grapes, Professor Frank taught everyone another lesson. The winery uses Riesling grapes originating from Germany. This grape prefers shady places and is very suitable for Canada's cold continental climate. Moreover, this grape prefers shady places.

Because grapes live in colder areas, they grow slowly and have a long ripening cycle. However, these seemingly disadvantages make them particularly outstanding in the aroma of winemaking. Their fruity aroma is unique among all grapes, regardless of whether they are used in winemaking or winemaking.

Ice wine or other wines have their own unique features.

There is nothing to say about the vineyard land. Like all vineyard land, it is sandy clay. However, due to the good environmental protection in the Niagara region, no pesticides are used on the entire island, and there is no other pollution.

, so its product quality is very excellent.

Finally, under the leadership of the manager of the winery, we came to a well. The manager told everyone that the irrigation water for the entire vineyard does not use water from Lake Ontario, but from self-harvested deep groundwater. In fact, most of the grapes

This is how the garden works. After all, although the water quality of Lake Ontario is also good, it is obviously inferior to the mineral-rich groundwater. As he spoke, he brought a bucket of water up and showed it to everyone. Professor Frank

He dipped his finger into it, tasted it, and nodded to Su Zhen.

After seeing the vineyards, we visited the winery under the leadership of the winery manager. Of course, it is a winery, but it is not large in scale. It is better to call it a workshop. However, unlike those small workshops, the inside

The equipment is very cash and well maintained, and is spotless.

There is also a workshop for processing wine barrels next to it. The material is Canadian oak. However, it is not the wine-producing period now, so there are no people. The manager said that the winery only opens the winery when the grapes mature around November every year.

It will start to get busy.

After visiting the winery, there is the wine cellar. The wine cellar is located underground in the entire winery building. After going down to the wine cellar, we found that the wine cellar is very huge. Thousands of barrels of wine stored in the wine cellar are placed in the innermost part, close to the wine cellar.

There are several rows of wine racks at the entrance of the cellar, with bottles of wine neatly placed on them. It looks like there are thousands of bottles.

According to reports, the winery not only produces ice wine, but also other ordinary wines. Because not every year’s grapes can be frozen, they will also produce ordinary wines in unfrozen years, and the quality of these wines is the same.

very nice.

At Su Zhen's signal, Frank began to taste the red wine. Su Zhen also poured some ice wine to taste. It was sweet and had a strong fruity aroma. It was completely different from the one he accidentally drank in his previous life.

It made him, who had never liked drinking, fall in love with the taste.

Finally, Frank told Su Zhen that the purchase of the winery for 16 million was indeed a good value for money. The quality of the wine produced by the winery was very good. In fact, the market value of the wines alone exceeded

Five million, of course, the price is not calculated that way, and it is not easy to sell those wines, but you can consider selling them as a pairing to restaurants that cooperate with your ranch.

Now that it is confirmed that there is no problem, the rest of the matter is simple. It just needs to be left to Erica, Luther and his lawyer to negotiate.

Su Zhenze and Frank wandered into the vineyard. Unlike Frank, who looked here and there, Su Zhen walked straight to the well. The fence of the well was not high, just over one meter. For someone already tall, Su Zhen walked straight to the well.

Su Zhen, who was nearly 1.5 meters tall, said it wasn't a big problem. He stretched his head and looked into the dark well. It was so dark that he couldn't see the bottom at all. It looked very deep. There was a bucket beside the well. He looked around and saw that there was no one around. He turned around.

He entered the space and soon brought out a bucket of water. Su Zhen tried it many times. Whether he wanted to take things out of the space or put things in, he had to go in personally. He wanted to move like in the novel.

It was impossible to put things in and take them out in the old days, which made Su Zhen quite regretful, and made Su Zhen very doubtful whether it was like what was said in the novel that requires a certain level of mental strength to do that.

Pour the water into the well, and after a while you hear a splash. Even if you don't count it, you know how deep the well is.

Just when Su Zhen let it slip, Erica and the others had already negotiated the contract, and all that was left was to sign and pay.

After settling everything, Luther handed all the keys to the winery house to Su Zhen and told Su Zhen that everything in the manor, including the daily necessities in the house, were all new, so he could live in and work directly.

The personnel were also ready, but Su Zhen had to rely on himself for management. After the explanation, he left with the original manager.

After Luther left, Su Zhen summoned all the employees of the winery and had a brief exchange to calm everyone's uneasiness caused by the change of boss. The best way to calm everyone's emotions was naturally to raise their salary. After promising

After the salary of all staff increased by 10% on the original basis, all staff returned to their posts happily.

After taking care of the ordinary staff, Su Zhen began to have a headache for the manager. Originally, Su Zhen did not want to change the manager, but the person was from the Luther family. After the winery was sold to Su Zhen, he no longer wanted to manage the winery.

The other party is a free man, and Su Zhen can't force him to stay. Su Zhen didn't say whether he knew how to manage the winery. Even if he could, he wouldn't want to tie himself here, right?

When Su Zhen was considering whether to ask a headhunting company to help find a manager, Professor Frank on the side recommended a candidate to Su Zhen. The other person was Frank's student, a middle-level manager of a large American wine company, and was engaged in this field.

I have been working for nearly ten years, but I have never been promoted. I am currently looking for a new way out. I believe that managing this small winery will not be a big problem.

As soon as Su Zhen heard this, someone brought him a pillow as he dozed off. Since he was going to stay in Canada for a few days, he asked Professor Frank to contact him and come over to the winery to meet him if he wanted.

We went to Niagara for dinner. This is a very beautiful town. The main road of the town is called "Queen Street". There are many shops on both sides of the street. They are all Victorian-style buildings, simple and elegant. Taste the famous local food

Handmade chocolates, full of flavor.

The only thing that disappointed Su Zhen was Erica, a professional girl. Although she was a little older, she was still a very pretty girl. Unfortunately, she had a cold face all day long, as if everyone owed her money.

Su Zhen tried various methods to make this big iceberg laugh, but the result was that he acted businesslike and showed no signs of slacking off, which made Su Zhen quite frustrated. In the end, he almost gritted his teeth and asked, "Don't you know how to laugh?" As a result, Ai

Lika made a smile that was uglier than crying, and Su Zhen almost sat on the ground in fright.

In the end, Su Zhen had no choice but to return to the winery with Da Bingshan in a depressed mood.