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Chapter 361: A God’s Tale

The Wine Master smiled softly “I’m already quite pleasantly surprised A new Ro vintage once it’s finished aging Aubert de Villaine is absolutely deserving of his status as a god of wine Although it doesn’t surpass a Cros Parantoux, it’s certainly a lot orous vintner, and only produced a limited number of his masterpieces a year Meanwhile, five thousand bottles of Romanee-Conti were produced in the same time period That’s several timesto their exchanged, frowned “If the gentlemen would follow me, we’ll return tobefore the group stood oncevine However, Aubert did not i When the elderly voice did reappear, it eaker than the last tio Two hundred years, in fact I couldn’t accept it then, I wasn’t ready to leave”

“Now, I’, reatest vintner the world had ever seen All of rew to e contradiction The better the wine, the worse y – everything did and still does take a great deal of tirapes takes two rapes to ripen and fall of their own accord But you don’t use those to ent practices ensure the best possible quality However, the other chateaus with their bargain wines were doing much better financially They est Burgundy chateau at the tiht hundred thousand bottles in a year

“It was then reatest wines continually be so expensive? So, I began my research It took me thirty years to strike a balance between price and quality The result was the Domaine de la Romanee-Conti However, at some point I lost it Money clouded my mind, and my keen perception of the process was lost”

“I never saw Henri Jayer as competition He was a simple farmer, and I the successor of the storied de Villaine faed to undy that I discovered, I could not follow in his foot steps”

“Gradually I came to my senses I had never been awine I redoubled my efforts, me and Lalou We studied biodyna We put our sweat, blood and tears in to it, andtrails and revolutionizing the wine industry along the way We gave our lives to wine, forsaking everything else, but those were the greatest days of h, we sent for the farmer Henri Jayer”

“When he arrived, I took hirandeur of the DRC I wanted hireat our biodynamics system worked”

“But, then he said to me, that the vines were like his own life He and the crop were partners When they were sick, they were carefully tended to with the proper fertilizer Whatever they needed, he gave them He didn’t need to follow some scientific theory”

“I antly if he felt his wines could match up with e he would later dub Cros Parantoux wasn’t ready The vines were still too young After tasting ifted hireed Lalou and I continued our valiant toils, carefully following our prescribed plan to reatest Romanee-Conti ever tasted Jayer, meanwhile, would come every day to look over the vines we’d separated out for hiod knohat”

“Two years passed quickly Eventually our product was ready for bottling Lalou and I had created twenty barrels, which would eventually become six thousand bottles of Roed not even a full cask – enough for a hundred and fifty bottles We had expected soe he’d been working with Originally I’d thought he was doing sorapes However, he said this was simply the result of his work That cask was the only one up to his standard”

“Once all was said and done, we placed two bottles of Ro table From the outside they looked identical, but for the name of the vintner printed on the bottle Bize and I were confident our ould reveal itself as the superior vintage 1