bookpower Chapter 395 - 183: 82-Year-Old Lafite...
Chapter 395 - 183: 82-Year-Old Lafite...
Several minutes had passed since the restaurant manager had left.
While exchanging small talk and discovering each other’s everyday interests, Mr. Gu and Ouyang Nana were approached by the restaurant manager flanked by two waiters, each carrying a tray to their table.
Mr. Gu looked up curiously just in time to see the two waiters gracefully placing glasses filled with a dark red liquid in front of them.
"Mr. Gu, Ms. Ouyang, these two glasses contain red wine for aperitif, they have been aerated in advance and are ready for your enjoyment now. Drinking a little red wine before a meal can stimulate the taste buds and help you better appreciate the upcoming cuisine.@@@@
This red wine is from the 1982 vintage of the Lafite Estate, it has been aged for 42 years and is incredibly scarce and precious."
Initially, Mr. Gu had no extra thoughts about the red wine, but upon hearing it was from ’82 Lafite, he couldn’t help raising an eyebrow slightly.
Whether in novels or films and TV shows, ’82 Lafite was a term he had often heard; it could be said that for many people in Hua Country, their introduction to high-end red wines began with ’82 Lafite, including Mr. Gu...
However, with the advent of the internet, and despite never having tasted ’82 Lafite himself, he was aware that finding one genuine bottle out of a thousand ’82 Lafites was already quite an achievement. After all, the Lafite Winery only produced 180,000 bottles for the entire year of ’82, yet Hua Country alone claimed to sell over two million bottles a year, which just shows how ludicrous the counterfeit wine situation had become...
With that thought, Mr. Gu couldn’t help but laugh and ask, "Is this ’82 Lafite from your restaurant the real deal?"
The restaurant manager, seemingly accustomed to this question, smoothly replied, "Of course, we can guarantee with 100 percent certainty that every bottle of ’82 Lafite our customers drink is authentic.
Our restaurant’s owner is one of the major shareholders of Lafite Winery; he originally opened this restaurant to create a private dining space. As he invited more friends over, the nature of the restaurant gradually changed, and now it has developed into a public establishment that’s open for business.
While Mr. Gu didn’t understand Ouyang Nana’s actions, he nonetheless respected them and didn’t think of her as pretentious...
Some things are ingrained, she had been brought up with such education, and now she was applying it, isn’t that normal?
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Of course...
These so-called etiquettes are all relative.
With the status Mr. Gu held now, not to mention disregarding these rituals, even drinking wine straight from the bottle at a soiree would only lead others to praise him as unrestrained and spontaneous.
After finishing the wine, Mr. Gu savored the lingering aroma in his mouth, unable to help but reminisce...
Although inexperienced with wines, he could still discern good from bad.
Lately, he hadn’t lacked exposure to high-end wines, especially these past few days with the company of Frederick, Nicolas, and Douglas, having tasted wines from Romanicon Emperor among others; by that account, Mr. Gu was quite the experienced wine taster...
The moment ’82 Lafite touched his palate, its texture and flavor alone attested to its authenticity.
After all, with its legendary status and such a lavish price that even ordinary wealthy folks could hardly afford it, ’82 Lafite must indeed possess something extraordinary. Rich people aren’t all fools; if it weren’t exceptional, it wouldn’t have maintained such high renown for decades.