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Chapter 1? The Artisan Boy(1/2)

The wine cups are filled with mustas, and the flowers are falling in full view.

Cultural Wine Industry Group, the annual blind liquor tasting ceremony, has gradually felt like a déjà vu from the award ceremony four years ago.

There were 100 representative seats for winery brand at the scene, full of seats.

The door slowly opened, and a boy wearing Miyake Yisheng, without any trace of dust and exuding a craftsmanship, entered the silent venue under the guidance of the light.

Accurate stride, accurate frequency.

In addition to professional flag-raising and flag-keeping, few people in life can turn walking into such an "accurate" thing.

Zhuguang stopped in the waiting area of ​​the top 100 Chinese liquor annual list.

One hundred liquor tasting cups with no difference in appearance are lined up in a row.

Below the tasting cup is a black box from number 1 to number 100.

This boy with a craftsmanship temperament walked past one by one in front of a hundred black boxes.

Change the number every three seconds.

Pick up the tasting cup placed on the black box.

Take a light breath.

Put back the cup.

After a brief pause, take a breath.

Don't leave any trace of his own breath in the tasting cup.

Repeat this way, repeat the same action one hundred times accurately like a machine.

Repeat means boring, but if you repeat this action, the youngest national wine reviewer Lou Shang.

Boredom seems to have become something worth looking forward to.

Representatives of the 100 wineries who have already sat in are all exploring the micro-expressions on Lou Shang's face.

I hope I can read from Lou Shanggujing Wubo's face which wines he will like this year, even a minute in advance.

But this young national wine reviewer just sniffed over so quietly, and the expression on his face did not change at all.

This is a highly questioned liquor tasting ceremony.

Fashion, dynamic, technology.

Every element is incompatible with the feeling that Chinese liquor has given people for thousands of years.

It has been rated as the most irregular and least affordable Chinese liquor blind tasting by many senior liquor tasting people.

But such a "not-in-class" blind tasting ceremony has become the most popular celebration in the Chinese liquor industry, no doubt about it.

After a round of smelling, Lou Shang did not smell it again like the "regular" wine reviewer.

He closed his eyes before he even finished watching, smelling, tasting, and evaluating these four normal procedures for tasting white wine.

After an accurate one hundred seconds, Lou Shang wrote down ten serial numbers one by one on the electronic writing screen next to the last black box in the waiting area.

No. 6, No. 13, No. 22...

Every time a number is written and the building is still in place, the brand light box of the winery representative seat will be lit.

One hundred representatives at the scene were waiting for breath, hoping that the next light box that lighted up would be where they were.

The competition among a few thousand is fierce.

Lou Shang turned his back to the guest seat. He couldn't see which wineries he had chosen, whether they had become famous for a long time or were new to him.

After writing the ten serial numbers, Lou Shang plunged into one and built it into a soundproof glass room on a stage with a very technological sense.

It's very similar to the scene of the global finals of the e-sports competition.

Lou Shang enters the glass room, and the entrance door is automatically closed.

People on the scene can see Lou Shang inside the soundproof glass room through the screen on the top of the stage.

But Lou Shang could not see the people outside the glass room, nor could he hear the sounds outside.

Completely enter a state of isolation from the world.

The venue, which had been silent for six minutes and forty seconds, began to be filled with people in an instant.

Some said congratulations to the brand representatives with lights on, and some said that this year was a bit of a pity.

Brand representatives attending the blind review meeting may either sincerely congratulate or give false congratulations.

It's like a Chinese social event.

But all of this has nothing to do with the building in the soundproof glass room, which cannot even be harvested by the attention of a beam of light.

He sat quietly in the glass room, and in front of the seat, there was a microphone with extremely outstanding audio effect.

Lou Shang was immersed in his own world. Whether it was full or empty outside would not have any impact on him.

After ten glasses of blind tastings from ten miles apart were sent to a waiting area in the soundproof glass room, the music and lighting on the scene returned to their original state.

The first brand representative of the No. 6 winery whose serial number was written by Lou Shang took out the wine he brought to the scene from the No. 6 black box and came to the center of the stage.

Open the bottle cap and pour the wine from the bottle into a detector that can detect alcohol.

In addition to alcohol, the instrument can also detect the year of the wine based on the volatility coefficient within six minutes.

As the brand representatives came on stage, the brewing process of this wine began to appear around the screen on the spot.

The brand representative took advantage of the background of the video to introduce the wine he brought to the scene today.

From brand, fragrance, year, wine bottle, wine label, to the alcohol content marked on the bottle, brewing raw materials, etc., information is well-known and talked about.

Everyone stood from the perspective of God, except Lou Shang in the soundproof glass room.

In the soundproof glass room, the right hand with distinct joints picked up the wine glass.

After a second smell, take a sip.

Stay in your mouth for three seconds, let the wine soak the entire mouth, and then spit it out.

This man with extraordinary temperament looks very good at drinking.

So many people think that Lou Shang's action of spitting out the wine is also fatal attraction.

The soundproof glass room where Lou Shang is located has a particularly good audio effect.

If you identify it carefully, you can even hear the sound of the wine tasting glass being placed back on the table very gently.

But no matter how outstanding the audio equipment was, it could not receive a sound from Lou Shang himself, as if even his breathing was still.

After the wine tasting on the 6th, Lou did not speak yet, but wrote his own evaluation on the writing board - refreshing, refreshing, soft, sweet, and clean. In the main notes of ethyl acetate, it exudes the compound aroma of ethyl lactate, elegant and comfortable, without any odor, spicy but not prickly, and the sweet cup aftertaste has a lingering aroma.

The final tasting results of No. 6 wine: Shanxi Fenjiu, new wine, and bottle label should be 53 degrees, and the actual degree should be 52.8 degrees.

It is not difficult for ordinary people who drink alcohol to distinguish between high-alcohol and low-alcohol alcohol.

But most people can't tell the difference between wines within five degrees.

The evaluation of alcohol is the "ghost-seeing sorrow" in the wine evaluator exam. 38 degrees, 41 degrees, 44 degrees, 47 degrees, 50 degrees, 53 degrees and four cups of the same wine evaluator exam. There are a total of ten glasses of wine. This is the most difficult level in the wine evaluator exam.

If you can distinguish between three degrees of wine, you can pass the wine reviewer. Those who can distinguish between one degree of wine are definitely the best among the wine reviewer.

But even the most powerful national wine reviewer can't distinguish between wine differences within one point. Except Lou Shang.

After Lou Shang wrote down the degrees, the data of the detection instrument was also revealed.

52.8 degrees, no more or less, just right.

There was a tide of applause at the scene.

The alcohol content can be precisely measured to one decimal point, and it is the soundproof glass room in China. Lou Shang, the youngest chief wine reviewer in China, and the most amazing place for his peers.

Lou Shang could not hear the applause or the expressions of the winery representatives.

All reactions from the outside world are not within the scope of Lou Shang's concern.

He quietly waited for the mechanical device in the waiting area and brought him a second glass of wine waiting for tasting.

The brewing process of the wine number 13 begins to be played on the screen on site. The winery representative takes out his wine from the black box and walks to the center of the stage.

The liquor lovers on the scene swallowed the same saliva.

The 13th wine is different from the new wine in the No. 6 winery, it is a bottle of vintage wine.

After writing a brief review of the five words "scent, mellow, soft, strong and strong" on the writing board, Lou Shang added professional evaluations - elegant aging, Wuliang cellar fragrance that combines ancient cellars, Chen Zhe and Chen Qu, a refreshing and smooth texture, sorghum, rice, glutinous rice, wheat, and corn with just the right seasoning, and a long-lasting aftertaste.

The final tasting result of Lou Shang's wine No. 13 was: in 1988, the drum-shaped bottle Wuliangye had a factory wine degree of 60 degrees, and the existing wine degree was 56.7 degrees.

56.7. Lou Shang's alcohol taste results once again reached a high degree of consistency with the instrument.

It took the machine six minutes to test the year of the wine, which was exactly the same as the 1988 written by Lou Shang.

No matter how the brand representatives from God’s perspective are dry and yearn for it, the wine Lou Shang drank will only stay in his mouth for three seconds before vomiting it out, and then rinse his mouth with strong tea water.

After the first two rounds of tasting, the winery representative number 22 stood up from the front of the light box.

Will this time be a vintage wine or a new wine?
To be continued...
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