Cask 23! It must be Cask 23!

It has to be it.

This is the red wine brand of Stag Leap Winery in the United States: single vineyard classic wine Cask 23 (which means oak barrel No. 23).

Next is the year?

This is the most difficult part of all blind tasting competitions, and many contestants almost guess blindly in this part.

Some people will look at the color of wine and judge it based on the hue, depth, and edge of the color. It is said that these will slowly change with the year.

For example, as many red wines age, the edge color and intensity of the wine body color will become lighter and lighter, and the color will change from deep purple to deep red, ruby ​​red, pomegranate red, brick red and finally to Pu'er tea with the age.

The evolution of tan, the older the color, the lighter the tone.

But there are exceptions. It is said that some wines produced by the world's most expensive Domaine de la Romanée-Conti will turn a mysterious red color after aging for more than ten years.

Some people look at smell and taste.

Good wines have about three layers of aroma, from the first layer of fruity aroma, to the second layer of various aromas produced by fermentation and maturation in oak barrels, such as spices, vanilla, cream, coconut, smoke, and toast.

After roasting, the aroma produced after aging reaches the third layer, such as the aroma of various spices, game, animal skins, and forest leaves.

However, these can only provide a rough range of vintage clues, and it is very difficult to accurately guess the vintage of a certain wine.

It's just that it's not difficult for Luo Fei.

When he was very young, the old man asked Luo Fei to do various judgment training on plants and fruits of different years.

Then, we can use various clues to determine the age of soil, trees, and even various antiques, porcelain, calligraphy and paintings of different years.

At first Luo Fei always guessed wrong, but slowly Luo Fei established his connection and bond with all things in the world. As soon as he got an ancient object, he felt as if he could travel through time and space and instantly return to the era where the ancient object was.

Including red wine.

Luo Fei held the stem of the goblet, took a sip of red wine, and swirled it around in his mouth. It was such a good wine, a mixture of minerals, chocolate, olives, charcoal-roasted coffee and smoked oak.

The complex taste, long-lasting and strong fragrance spreads in the mouth immediately.

Luo Fei's sense of thought began to be connected with his sense of smell, traveling through time and space like tentacles. He found a familiar taste, a taste that could only be found in oak barrels of a certain year.

1985 is a rare wine. This is a once-in-a-lifetime wine.

In 1985, Cask 23 was rated by the British wine magazine Decanter Det.

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This Cask 23, which is the No. 23 Cabernet Sauvignon from Stags Leap Winery, was the favorite of US President Ronald Reagan.

When U.S. President Ronald Reagan hosted Gorbachev at the White House, he drank Cabernet Sauvignon from Bucket No. 23 of Stags Leap Wine Cellar!

Queen Elizabeth II of England also drank this wine to celebrate President Reagan's wedding anniversary on her private yacht.

In 1972, Stag Leap Wine Cellar began to officially make wine. The next year, it produced a masterpiece - barrel No. 23 in 1973. This barrel of wine won the first place in the Paris International Blind Tasting Competition in 1976, defeating French wine.

, won the competition championship!

Since then, Deer's Leap Wine Cellar has become famous like a carp jumping through a dragon's gate, and has become a universally recognized "first-class winery" in the United States.

Luo Fei smiled bitterly. He used such a good wine at the beginning and let him drink and taste the rest of the wine how he wanted.

In the first round of this international blind tasting competition with a prize of one million US dollars, the stipulated time was 20 minutes, and Luo Fei guessed the answer in only 7 minutes.

When he rang the bell and handed over his answer, the other players all looked at him in astonishment.

This guy is crazy.

They think this guy is either a genius or a mess.

Since the competition stipulated that he could not leave the field immediately, Luo Fei looked at the other players in boredom.

He saw that Leng Meiren on No. 2 was fully engaged in wine tasting. She was concentrating on smelling the wine. The wine glass in her hand kept shaking, her nose came close, she shook her head, shook it a few times, and shook her head again. She seemed a little unsure about the fragrance.

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She was a little nervous, and there were thin beads of sweat oozing out on both sides of her forehead, like dewdrops hanging on white jade. Luo Fei looked a little crazy.

Turning around to Channel 4, the wealthy man on Channel 4 was also holding red wine in his mouth, swirling it around in his mouth like gargle.

Suddenly, Luo Fei's eyes froze. He could hardly believe his eyes, because he saw a trace of mist rising from the head of the wealthy man. It turned out that this guy was using his internal power to vaporize and sublimate the red wine in his mouth, until it reached the top of his head.

Feel the connotation and essence of red wine, awesome!

The guy with glasses on Channel 5 seemed to be a little confused. He was shaking the wine glass here and there. The red wine almost spilled out of the glass several times, but it didn't. He was in a hurry, as if he had no clue at all.

He seemed to be so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and his whole body was constantly moving and recording. Luo Fei took a closer look and felt that this guy with glasses was not simple, because he actually had a rhythm in his busyness, and every wine tasting person

Every action seems to get some data, and he is constantly recording these data, and seems to be conducting a kind of deduction through these data.

through numbers

The region and year in which the wine is produced?

Luo Fei shook his head, feeling mysterious and incredible.

Luo Fei didn't pay special attention to the goatee old man on Channel 3. He felt that he was the least distinctive among them. The old man had been smiling and tasting the wine, as if he was not in a hurry or nervous, and had not taken any action.

Suddenly, Luo Fei noticed something, and his eyes gradually narrowed.

Whenever he does this action, it's when he discovers something strange or dangerous.

Luo Fei discovered that Goatee's smiling face turned out to be a smile, and his eyes were not smiling, even a little cold.

However, the problem is not his eyes, the problem is his hands.

His hands were inadvertently making some gestures and making some strange movements.

His hand movements are very slow and in a very small range. People who don't know it by chance may think that the old man with a goatee is doing hand exercises to relieve pain.

Roger didn't think so. He understood this technique. It was a sect of martial arts, a "miscellaneous sect" among the nine sects, also known as the code of gestures in the "acrobatic sect".

Roger cursed secretly: This guy is actually cheating.

It turned out that the old man with the goatee was conveying the clues he had learned during the wine tasting to his accomplices through a unique code of gestures.

He must have an accomplice beside him, Roger thought as he slowly scanned the surrounding crowd watching the game.

Suddenly, he fixed his eyes, and there was a small, unspectacular man in the middle of the crowd. He seemed to be watching the game with great interest. He touched his chin with one hand. If you don't pay attention, you won't see anything special. But if you look carefully, you will still find it.

There's something different about this guy.

His body seemed to be very relaxed. In fact, his eyes were fixed on the old man with the goatee the whole time, and the hand touching his chin was making some gestures inadvertently, probably in response to the message from the old man.

After they interacted for a while, the thin man slowly withdrew from the crowd. Roger guessed that this guy should go find a place and then use modern technological tools to conduct data analysis on the information from the old man.

Sure enough, after a while, the thin man came back. He pretended to move his hands and feet casually, but in fact he conveyed the message to the goatee through code gestures.

The goatee was still smiling. He nodded lightly inadvertently, then picked up a pen to write down the answer, and then rang the bell to indicate completion.

Old fox! Luo Fei cursed secretly.

After 20 minutes, Channels 4 and 5 submitted their answers one after another. The last one was Leng Meiren from Number 2. She was a little unconfident and completed the answer with very complicated emotions.
Chapter completed!