Traveling through 70's wine

Chapter 261 Falling in Love

The next day, the two climbed the mountain hand in hand to the near of the waterfall. They watched the waterfall falling from a great height, splashing jade-like fragments in the pool. They asked other tourists to help take a photo of the two of them. In the photo, the two stood shoulder to shoulder in front of the waterfall, looking at the camera with similar smiles on their faces. This is the CP feeling.

That day, they strolled in the mountains, looking at the overlapping mountains and strange peaks and rocks. Wen Qing had been to Mount Huashan before, and the scenery here was completely different from that of Mount Huashan, but also excellent.

In the evening, they stopped at a viewing platform on the way down the mountain, waiting for the sun to slowly set from the top of the mountain. The afterglow of the sunset dyed the sky and the earth orange, and then pink. Finally, they used flashlights to find their car.

They still stayed in the hotel in the scenic area that day, and this time they only needed one room.

Next, she went to San Francisco with Jason Yang and visited the famous Golden Gate Bridge. The fiery red bridge was set against the azure sky and the blue sea. It was majestic and magnificent, with a kind of industrial-age beauty.

Afterwards, the two took a tram ride, visited the Palace of Fine Arts, and went to Fisherman’s Wharf for dinner.

There are many Chinese people in San Francisco. Their faces are still Chinese, but their expressions and behaviors are like those of Chinese. The ancestors of these people came to this place for various reasons and settled down here, but everyone has his own life, and Wen Qing has no intention of making friends with the local Chinese.

Wen Qing accompanied Yang Jiesheng around San Francisco for three days. After seeing him off, she returned the car and took a taxi back to the town of Davis.

From then on, Wen Qing spent her days either attending classes and doing homework, or learning how to grow grapes, prune branches and catch insects on the school farm. She had never grown grapes before, mainly because she had never seen good grape varieties and didn't quite understand which grapes were suitable for making wine, so this time when she went abroad, she also planned to find some good wine-making grapes to plant in the space.

Wen Qing was learning how to prune from the technicians on the farm. She arrived at the farm late, the grapes had already been harvested, and the winemaking had entered the fermentation stage. At this time, the most work was pruning and fertilizing.

Wen Qing wore gloves and held pruning shears, listening carefully to the teacher's analysis of which branches needed to be pruned and to what extent. She carefully pruned the grape vines and then tied the remaining grape branches with thin wire.

I heard from the farm technicians that it takes three years for grapes to bear fruit after being planted, and they are considered mature after 7 or 8 years. The fruit-bearing ability must continue for 50 to years. Well-managed grapes may even grow to years before their yield decreases.

For grape vines that are more than 50 years old, although the yield has decreased, after long-term and careful cultivation, they can still produce grapes with rich flavor. The wine made from these grapes has a richer and more delicious flavor.

In the first semester, Wen Qing studied basic courses such as organic chemistry and biochemistry, as well as some general education courses. She also participated in farm practice in her spare time.

Wen Qing bought some grape saplings and added the grape branches cut from pruning on the farm. With the teacher's permission, she planted them all in the space and planned the vineyard according to the newly acquired technology. Due to her lack of experience, it took Wen Qing a whole month to plant more than ten acres of land and put up the grape trellis. As for tying the branches in the future, she would have to wait until the grape trees grew a little bigger.

It is not very cold in California in winter and it basically does not snow. The winter vacation is not long. Wen Qing has no plans to return home, so Yang Jiesheng will come to see her and spend Christmas together.

Christmas is coming soon, and all the shops in the town are dressed up for the festival. Christmas trees are placed in front of all the shops, and holly or maple trees are placed on the doors and in the windows, with snowflake-shaped stickers pasted on them.

Wen Qing pushed open the door of a dim sum shop and was greeted by the sounds of Christmas songs. Many children were choosing Christmas gingerbread and toys under the guidance of their parents. Wen Qing also bought some cakes and bread.

It is winter vacation now, and many classmates have gone home. Not many people are left in the dormitory. The food in the school cafeteria is not as good as when the school starts. There are fewer varieties and it does not suit Wen Qing's taste, so she cooks for herself when she has time.

On the way back to the dormitory, Wen Qing saw a little squirrel jumping around under a pine tree on the roadside. She threw a small piece of bread to it. Seeing the little squirrel eating the bread with relish, Wen Qing was melted by its cuteness. She then went to feed the water birds in the campus lake before heading towards the dormitory.

"Hey, Wen, bye."

"Goodbye, Vera."

Familiar classmates hurriedly said goodbye and left with their suitcases, and the dormitory became even quieter.

"Ding" the elevator arrived at her floor. She took out the key and opened the door, put the things on the table, took out the eggs and flour she had saved from the space, took out tomatoes from the refrigerator, and made tomato and egg hand-rolled noodles. The steaming noodle soup brought warmth to the winter night.

Seeing that there was nothing to do outside, Wen Qing simply went to the space. She planted two varieties of grapes in total, one was Cabernet Sauvignon, also known as Cabernet Sauvignon in China. Cabernet Sauvignon is the world's largest planted wine grape, it likes well-drained gravel soil and warm and dry climate, matures from September to October, the wine made from it has the aroma of black currant and blackberry, rich tannins, rich taste, and better aging effect.

One is Merlot, sometimes also called Merlot. Good Merlot wine tastes slightly sweet and smooth, with a nice fruity aroma, and is very suitable for beginners.

Merlot is also a common variety in California's Napa Valley and Sonoma wineries. It prefers a warm and dry climate and matures earlier than Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine made from it is full-bodied and fruity. The Bordeaux region of France often uses Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot together to make wine, while California wineries prefer to use a single grape variety to make wine.

Wen Qing transplanted these two types of grapes in November. Now they have survived. She went to the space to check the growth status of the grapes. The soil in the space is very suitable for planting anything. Wen Qing still carefully recorded the growth of the grapes and carefully studied the composition of the soil in the space. In the future, she will plant grapes outside the space, and these data can be used as a reference.

Wen Qing hopes to use agricultural machinery to pick grapes in the future, so when planting the grapes, she consciously planned the distance between the vines and the height of the grape racks according to the standards for agricultural machinery picking.

After finishing the work in the vineyard, Wen Qing went to the fields. Since leaving the capital, she had harvested twice. The wheat was ripe now. The corn and sorghum needed to wait three or four days, and the rice would need to grow for about a week. She started the harvester and harvested the 70 acres of wheat. Then she collected the wheat stalks, crushed them, and buried some in the fertilizer pool beside the pond, and threw some into the stove to burn into ashes. Wood ash is also a very good potassium fertilizer.