Chapter 1011 Winery

"The Rothschild family winery?"

Barron asked doubtfully after hearing Ashley's words.

Before this, he had not heard the other party talk about it.

"Yes, you know, although the Rothschild family had great power in France before, there are also many people who covet their wealth and have been suppressed..."

After Barron's acquired the LCF Rothschild Group, it can be said that the Rothschild family's main industry in France is those wineries.

The Rothschild family's involvement in the wine industry can be traced back to the 19th century.

In 1853, James Rothschild acquired the Bordeaux First Growth Chateau Mouton, marking the financial family’s formal entry into the wine world.

Since then, the Rothschild family has continued to expand its wine territory, and through acquisitions, joint ventures and other methods, it owns many of the world's top wineries, such as Château Lafite, Chateau Living Soul, Chateau Haut-Brion, etc.

For example, two of the five first-class wineries in France currently belong to the Rothschild family.

The five first-class wineries in France usually refer to Chateau Lafite, Chateau Latour, Chateau Margaux, Chateau Haut-Brion and Chateau Mouton in the Medoc region of Bordeaux.

Among them, Chateau Lafite and Chateau Mouton are both owned by the Rothschild family.

In addition, the Rothschild family also owns several other wineries as well as many wineries overseas.

In fact, although these wineries all belong to the Rothschild family, there are many branches of the Rothschild family. There are three branches of the Rothschild family that have entered the wine industry: Lafite Rothschild Group (DBR) , Philippe Rothschild Group (BPDR) and Edmund Rothschild Group (BEDR).

The three winery groups operate independently, but they are all under the banner of the Rothschild family.

Among them, the Lafite Rothschild Group (DBR) is world-famous for its Chteau Lafite Rothschild.

In addition, the Lafite Rothschild Group also owns famous wineries such as Duhamilon, Les Chateau, and Le Wangji Chateau.

The Philippe Rothschild Group is centered on Chateau Mouton Rothschild, another first-class winery.

Chateau Mouton was rated as a second growth in 1855 and was later promoted to a first growth in 1976, becoming one of the five famous wineries in Bordeaux.

This is also the only winery in the world that has been upgraded from a second-class winery to a first-class winery.

The last Edmund Rothschild Group has a relatively small influence in the wine world, but its Chateau Clarke is a member of the Bordeaux Grand Cru Federation.

The group also owns well-known wineries such as Chateau Laures and Arrow of the Andes...

This time Ashley Weber bought Chateau d'Armailhac. Although it is not a first-class winery like Chateau Lafite and Mouton-this winery The chateau is a fifth-level famous chateau in the 1855 classification, but Chateau Damagnac is close to Chateau Mouton and Chateau Lafite, sharing the same geographical location and terroir, and is separated from Chateau Mouton.

This may not be accurate, and the relationship between the two is somewhat complicated.

At the end of the 18th century, the French Damagnac family purchased a vineyard from Prince VIGNES and established the Damagnac Winery. The winery continued to expand under the management of the family, and soon after acquired the Mouton Chateau next door and established it. Changed its name to Château Mouton Damarc.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. They only faced the biggest financial crisis in the family's history after only half a century of operation. In 1843, after careful consideration, the family heir Aude Damagnac sold the vineyard that originally belonged to Chateau Mouton. To Chateau Lafite.

In 1933, France's Domaine Damaillac was sold to the Philippe Rothschild Group (which had already acquired Chateau Mouton at that time) under extremely helpless conditions, and became part of the Mouton Estate.

It can be said that although the Rothschild family was famous before this, after nearly 250 years of prosperity, there are now many family members, and most of them have no ambition...

Especially after suffering a major blow before, and not long ago, after the "unexpected death" of the head of the family, David Rothschild, the entire family was said to be falling apart.

This is also understandable. At that time, a large family had enough industry supply. Hello everyone, hello everyone.

But now that the most important financial industry has been taken away, the remaining industries are no longer enough to support these people's original lives.

Coupled with the sudden death of the head of the family, chaos fell into chaos for a while, and a struggle for power and profit was inevitable.

After all, although the three major winery groups of the Rothschild family are all independently operated, family funds have always held a considerable share of their family businesses.

From Ashley, Barron learned that this time the Philip Rothschild Group had no choice but to sell Chateau Damarmac Winery in order to obtain funds to deal with other competitors and internal opposition within the family. She also took this opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity. Visited this winery.

From this, Barron couldn't help but think that if the assassination against him was successful, his properties, even worse than the current Rothschild family, would immediately be eaten by a pack of wolves.

At present, the Damayac Manor is managed by the daughter of the former Mouton owner Luo Fuqi.

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The estate covers an area of ​​50 hectares, most of which is planted with Cabernet Sauvignon grapes. The average age of the trees is 47 years. Each vintage is aged in 30% new oak barrels for 16 months, and the remaining 70% of the barrels come from Mouton Manor.

"If you are interested, you can come with me recently and see the brewing scene there..."

French wine estates usually start winemaking from mid-August to mid-October every year. This period is the grape ripening season and the best time to make wine.

The ripeness and quality of grapes have a crucial impact on the quality of wine, so wineries will choose to pick and brew during this period.

It’s early October and it’s the last brewing time of the year.

However, Barron was not very interested in Ashley's proposal. He himself did not have much love for red wine, or he rarely drank alcohol - this was also the same as in his previous life, because of alcoholism. Later, I had some connections with this world...

In addition, Château Damagnac is located next to Château Lafite and Chateau Mouton. Who knows if he really goes there, whether there will be die-hard members of the Rothschild family to "revenge" him... …

This is just what he thought. If the other party was really that kind, he wouldn't wait until now.

What's more, his own security team is not just for nothing.

"Do you remember Manu? The young man next to Hollande whom I met at the Elysee Palace before..."