In 1998, a leader of the Ningxia Science and Technology Department went to France to investigate, ordered a bottle of red wine during the meal, the waiter saw the situation, and said to him with a disdainful face: "Sir, this wine can cost 10,000 US dollars a bottle, are you sure you want to open it?" The leader was furious: "Don't think that I am a foreigner and can ask for a price!" ”
The leader was None other than Wang Fengyu, director of the Ningxia Science and Technology Department, from Yinchuan, Ningxia, who was transferred here in 1973 and began agricultural work. In the late 1980s, Wang Fengyu was appointed to manage the grape industry, and thus came into contact with many people in the industry at home and abroad. By chance, he met Dr. Li Hua, a wine expert. Later, on the recommendation of Li Hua, Wang Fengyu decided to take people to France to investigate the development of their wine industry.
A group of people got on a plane to France, and after a long journey, they found a nearby hotel as soon as they arrived in France, settled in, and put away their luggage. So I went out to find a restaurant to eat, this was the first time to eat Western food, and the group was full of expectations.
After coming to the restaurant, after the group ordered food one by one, a colleague said: "How can we eat Western food without some red wine, how about a bottle of red wine?" After saying that, he looked at Wang Fengyu.
Wang Fengyu smiled and said, "Boy, if you want to say it, you can say it directly!" Let's also have a rare trip to France, let's try a bottle! Without saying a word, he motioned to the waiter to take a bottle of red wine and followed his finger to a bottle.
Then a waiter came over, looked at Wang Fengyu and his party, and said with a disdainful face: "Sir, the bottle of wine you want can cost $10,000, are you sure you want to open it?" ”
The disdain between the words made Wang Fengyu furious, so he blushed and said, "Don't think that I am a foreigner and can ask for a price!" ”
Seeing that Wang Fengyu was not calm, a middle-aged man came over and said with a smile: "Sir, the bottle you ordered is called Romani Conti, and it really wants this price, and it is difficult to drink in your country." ”
Wang Fengyu was so angry that he didn't eat any food and left.
After returning home, Wang Fengyu has been grumpy and feels that he has been slaughtered. Therefore, after Wang Fengyu returned to China, he held his stomach and directly found Li Hua and said, "Eh, I said, don't we have good wine in China?" Why is their foreigner's wine so expensive? ”
Li Hua looked at Wang Fengyu so angry, but instead smiled and giggled: "Old Wang, Romani Conti really wants this price." ”
Wang Fengyu was even more angry: "A bottle of red wine for 10,000 US dollars, we ordinary people in Ningxia can't make so much money in a year, this is too outrageous!" ”
Li Hua said: "Romani Conti is indeed a good wine. Our domestic wine industry started later than the foreign ones, so there is a distance now, but I am sure we will catch up. ”
It turned out that after Li Hua returned from studying abroad, he had been looking for a good place in China suitable for growing grapes and making wine.
Until he came to the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain in Ningxia, he found that there was plenty of sunlight, a large temperature difference between day and night, a small amount of precipitation, and the soil was rich in minerals, which were very suitable conditions for growing grapes.
Wang Fengyu looked incredulous: "What's the joke, it's all Gobi Desert, and you can still grow grapes everywhere in the yellow sand?" ”
Li Hua: "It's true that it's the Gobi Desert, but the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain belong to the same latitude as Bordeaux, France, and the wine brewed here is not bad!" ”
So Wang Fengyu came to the Gobi Desert to inspect, and saw that the villagers there were only old people and children with worn clothes, and the young people were going out to work and beg for a living, because of the land, crops could not be planted, and the most they ate was potatoes and other food, and they were even worried about food and clothing.
Wang Fengyu saw this scene and thought of a bottle of red wine for ten thousand dollars in France, and his heart was very unhappy, so he was ready to help them and carry forward our independent wine industry at the same time.
The wife did not understand: "What are you tossing and turning, you will retire after a few more years, why do you have to do such a hopeless thing." ”
Wang Fengyu was determined to do it, so he found a friend to collect a sum of money and came to the Gobi Desert. First of all, his first step was to plant trees and fix sand, and in 3 years, he mobilized the villagers to join the planting team, and gave the villagers remuneration, planting rows of poplar trees. Oases grow on the bare Gobi Desert.
In this way, the group regained confidence, worked harder and harder, introduced the first batch of grape seedlings, and landed smoothly with the cooperation of the villagers. Everyone is as careful as if they were conceiving a child, looking forward to the fruit of the vineyard.
But the good times are not long, a frost disaster nearly half of the grape seedlings died, Wang Fengyu is very complicated, coupled with the people around him are not optimistic, negating his efforts in recent years, but Wang Fengyu did not give up, invited industry experts to improve the problem, improved the structure of the vineyard, and replaced with hardy grape noodles.
Immediately after, Wang Fengyu introduced water from the Yellow River for irrigation, which greatly increased the cost of this operation, but fortunately, the grapes grew very well. After several years of perseverance, the dangers and obstacles were overcome. Wang Fengyu's white hair is increasing, and it is good that the harvest has been ushered in in a few years.
The first barrel of wine opens its lid, overflowing with aromas and good taste. The sommelier applauded one after another. Wang Fengyu, whose confidence has increased greatly, took the wine of ningxia Honghelan Mountain Donglu region to participate in the international wine competition the following year and won the gold medal.
This time, let our domestic wine stand on a bigger stage, so that the villagers' lives in the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain in Ningxia have been improved.
I have to say that Wang Fengyu is a good leader who deserves respect.
Nowadays, this wine has landed in the headline shop, a bottle is not a hundred, the quality, the taste is not worse than foreign wine, good quality and low price. If you also enjoy wine tasting, you may wish to support our independent Ningxia red wine. A mouthful of belly, full of the fruits of the hard work of the people of Ningxia Helan Mountain, is worth tasting.
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