America’s Big Hero

"You can still make wine?" Yuri was surprised.

"You want to fake wine?" Saul was worthy of being a lawyer, pointing to the core of the problem.

"Will you be able to talk? How can this be called fake wine!" Sean glanced at Sol, "Is this called fake wine?"

"Otherwise?" Saul spread his hands.

"How can the matter of the brewer be called a fake!"

"This is called a cottage!"

Seeing that Sol still wanted to ask, Sean waved his hand and continued, "Yurui, how much is a bottle of this French brandy?"

"55 US dollars, the market price is 120 for normal imports, and more than 400 US dollars in regular bars. However, this kind of smuggled product is only sold for more than 200 in our bars. Of course, few people want a bottle. Most of them are sold as base wine."

"If I blend it, then the cost of a bottle of wine is only about 0.5 US dollars. If it is in large quantities, it may be 0.3 US dollars a bottle." Sean had a mysterious smile on his face.

"Oh my god, it's impossible!"

"Are you joking!"

"How could it be so cheap!" Sol and his eyes were so hanging out, they hugged their heads with disbelief on their faces.

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

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

"The profit of the drug pot? Can the drug pot be sold publicly?"

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

"But the profit ratio of pan-drugs is too low." Xiao En sneered and shook his head, his face full of disdain, "That kind of low-end stuff, only the gangsters and the uneducated people would like it."

"Low end, ignorance!"

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

"I don't think those wineries have such a big profit. As far as I know, many French wineries don't make much money, and some still lose money." Sol frowned tightly.

"Nonsense, they made it, and I made it out of blending, can it be the same!" Sean rolled his eyes, "Do you know how long it takes to make a good bottle of brandy and how much labor it takes? ?”

Brandy is not just white.

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

The barrels are mainly oak barrels, and different oak barrels have different tastes. The 'black oak barrels' are Armagnac, and the 'Leadson' oak barrels are mostly cognac.

There is the term "cognac" in brandy, and 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, and not in other regions.

Cognac is divided into many grades, VS grade (less than 4 and a half years old), VSOP grade (between 4 and a half and 6 and a half years old), 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 (extraordinary) F (good) V (very good) O (old) S (excellent) P (pale and old) X (extraordinary)

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

Among other things, inflation alone will cause prices to rise by a higher level.

"And the cost of a bottle of wine like our cottage depends on how much a kilogram of edible alcohol is." Xiao En spread his hands with a smile, "As for the coloring and flavoring, do you need to consider the price of that stuff?"

Sol and the two stood there dumbfounded, shaking their heads in response to Sean's words. This profit really scared the two of them.

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

"As for the cost, it depends entirely on how much a ton of alcohol costs. I remember the market price is around $700 a ton."

Sean shrugged his shoulders, "Actually, industrial alcohol can also be used, and the price is lower."

"No, no, oh my god, this is already amazing, you still want to use industrial alcohol, you, damn it, capitalist, vampire!" Yuri didn't doubt Xiao En's words, he rushed over and grabbed Xiao En uncontrollably The shoulders are laughing wildly, and the little tongue is clearly visible.

Saul, on the other hand, was much calmer, but he trembled uncontrollably when he spoke, "You, you, can you really deserve it? This, this is simply ridiculous. Those people have worked hard for hundreds of years to make it. Things can be produced at such a low price, and the profit is so high, then...then what kind of wine do you still have, go and blend them like you."

"First, what I want to say is that all wines can be blended." Sean said in a very positive tone: "As long as the craftsmanship is good enough and accurate enough, at least for ordinary people, they can't drink it at all. Fake, of course, there are people like wine tasters, but I am not going to sell them."

"Second, it's just that you don't understand the 'wine' industry." Xiao En said to himself, I will tell you, did I work in Changli, Hebei QHD? Master of fake wine?

"In fact, the largest consumer group of wine is ordinary people, and they can't tell whether it's true or not, and the reason why they still have to work hard is to shape culture, taste, and style, and it's also to raise the threshold of competition and give others Those who want to enter the industry set up obstacles."

"It's like cognac. If you change the region, the same craftsmanship is not called French cognac, and it is not the best brandy."

"Those drunk guys in the bar, you can give him a bottle of horse urine and he 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 directly judge the punishment according to the law. What do you need a lawyer for?"

Speaking of his job, Saul immediately retorted, "There should be a lawyer, the judge is just a neutral person, he is right to 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 waved his hand and interrupted Saul.

"Okay, what do you talk so much about?" Yuri waved his hands vigorously. This guy is an activist who doesn't want to use his brain. "Come on, Sean, deploy it for us to see, and then we will know everything."

"OK!" Sean gestured, "I've prepared the alcohol content, now I'm going to adjust the color."

"This requires some pigments. Commonly used pigments are red, yellow, blue, and green. Pepper red, beet red, monascus red, sodium copper chlorophyll, turmeric, gardenia yellow, phycocyanin, cocoa pigment, caramel color What."

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

"Edibles are divided into natural pigments and synthetic pigments. I choose synthetic ones."

"Cheap!!"

Sol gave a thumbs up. If you don't get rich, it's fucking unreasonable!

The street lights on the street must have one of yours!

"Natural pigments are also fine." Yuri was a little embarrassed, and interjected a sentence beside him, "This thing is cheap, and the cost in the wine is probably less than 1 cent."

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

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

"The main reason is that natural pigments are more complex and not as easy to adjust as synthetic pigments, understand!"

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

Yuri was so bullied that he didn't dare to speak, but Saul curled his lips quietly. He still felt that Sean was too expensive.

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Chapter 7 I can't post it, I'm crazy, it's under review...