The annual word-of-mouth drama "Sweeping The Black Storm" ushered in the finale last week, in which Li Chengyang, played by Sun Honglei, finally successfully solved the case, punished adultery and eliminated evil after fourteen years of lying on the salary and tasting the guts, and found fairness and justice.
Outside the play, the fans are still unfinished, still digging and questioning the details that appear in the play and the possible metaphors behind them. For example, Ma Shuai's collection of two bottles of red wine is also a key prop to witness the friendship of Ma Shuai and Li Chengyang, which has recently been traced back by wine lovers, which has found that the two bottles of "big wine" in Ma Shuai's mouth are really quite promising!
First review the plot:
In episode 3, Ma Shuai tells Li Chengyang in the detention center that he received two bottles of "big wine" – a reminder that the "big wine" here is not the usual understanding of "drinking big wine", in the world of wine, "big wine" usually comes from top wineries, strong taste, full body.
Ma Shuai promised Li Chengyang that after he was released from prison and before going to Slovenia, while tasting fine wine with Yangyang, he told Yangyang a big secret buried in his heart (this secret is the answer that Li Chengyang has been looking for for 14 years).
However, after the flag was established, Ma Shuai died suddenly in the next surprise interrogation (it was later proved that Ma Shuai was poisoned). The secret stone in Ma Shuai's mouth sank into the sea, causing Li Chengyang to fall into endless darkness.
It was not until episode 23 that these two bottles of "big wine" finally appeared. In that scene, Li Chengyang entered the hotel room that Ma Shuai had been wrapping up for many years, opened the safe deposit box in the room, found two bottles of wine inside, and found the letter that Ma Shuai left for him, which identified the black hand behind the murder 14 years ago - Gao Mingyuan.
Ma Shuai did not deceive his brother, he told Li Chengyang the secret of his heart in another way, and the two bottles of wine he left for Li Chengyang were indeed super good wines.
Wine Name:
In the play, you can see very clearly the name of the wine written on these two bottles of wine bottles - "La Tâche", which literally translates to "Latahi", and it also has a more romantic Chinese name "Stepping on snow". The ancient literati Yashi said "stepping on the snow to find plums", but in Li Chengyang's script, So Sister wanted to borrow a harmonic stem - stepping on "blood" to find plums (Xue Mei).
If you know French, the name is even more intriguing. Until 1978, the label of this wine was written "La Tache"; it was not until 1978 that a small symbol was added and uniformly changed to "La Tâche".
In French, "La Tâche" and "La Tache" are actually two words with very different meanings, the former meaning "task" and the latter meaning "stain".
In the play, the two bottles of wine collected by Ma Shuai are one of 1973 and one of 1970, both earlier than 1978, so the writing of "La Tache" on the bottle is reasonable. In the eyes of the Party of Details, "La Tache" (the stain) is also more in line with Ma Shuai's inner monologue about the mistakes made 14 years ago.
But interestingly, Marshal Ma didn't even know Slovenia, he still knew French? It can only be said that the crew of "Sweeping Black Storm" has high people.
year:
Another touching detail is that the two bottles of wine collected by Ma Shuai are vintages - one produced in 1973 and one produced in 1970, and these two years are also the birth years of him and Li Chengyang, and from this detail, it can be seen that Ma Shuai's statement that "Li Chengyang's status in his heart is second only to his daughter is second".
Wine History:
In the list of the world's top ten most expensive wines in 2020 released by the authoritative wine search engine wine-searcher, in addition to a German Riesling and a Portuguese enhanced wine, the remaining eight places are divided by Burgundy wines, and Burgundy in France is once again proud. And La Tâche is from Burgundy, absolutely famous.
In 1933, the La Tâche winery was included as an exclusive garden by domaine de la Romanee-Conti (DRC), the most prominent winery in France and the world.
(Domaine de la Romanee-Conti)
And Romani Conti Winery This winery netizens should be no stranger, because their family also produces another wine - Romanee-Conti, which has been mentioned more than once in the movie "The Mermaid" directed by Stephen Chow. Of the most expensive wines auctioned by Sotheby's in 2015, the 90s Romani Kande in Mermaid, which ended up selling for $158,000 per bottle.
Not long ago, the popular drama "You Are My Glory" also appeared in the figure of Romani Kandi, and Di Li Reba used Romani Kandi's wine bottle to fill other wines to relieve Yang Yang.
The famous Burgundy expert Allan Meadows once said that if there is any wine that can compete with Romanée-Conti, it must be La Tâche. His claim is not an exaggeration, and a look back at history reveals that the relationship between the vineyards of La Tâche and Romanee-Conti has always been intertwined.
In the mid-18th century, the vineyards of Romani and La Tâche belonged to the same landlord and were later sold together to Prince de Conti, cousin of King Louis XV of France. Because Prince Kandi preferred the taste of Romani, he renamed La Romanée as La Romanée Conti. Romani Kande's wine is exclusively for the Prince of Kandi himself, while La Tâche's wine is marketable.
At the end of the 18th century, Prince Kande sold two fields, and Romani Kandi and La Tâche began to belong to their respective owners. It was not until 1933 that Romani Kandy and La Tâche were both owned by the Kandi Estate, becoming two of the 8 Grand Cru vineyards owned by the Kandi Estate (Monopole) and becoming a family again.
Not only are there the same owners behind them, but in terms of vines, Romani Kande and La Tâche have also experienced several exchanges. It is rumored that in 1890, the vines of La Tâche were damaged by phylloxera and had to be completely eradicated, and the replanted saplings were transplanted from the neighboring Kande vineyards. In 1945, to ward off a pest and disease, the Romani Conti vineyards uprooted all the vines and re-cultivated vines were selected from the La Tâch garden. Since 1985, La Tâche has been biodynamic, like Romani Kande. It can be seen that the relationship between these two gardens is constantly rational and chaotic.
In terms of price, because of the loftier status of Romani Kande and the more scarce production, the price of Romani Kande in the same vintage on the market can now reach three or four times that of La Tâche, so in the eyes of some wine experts, La Tâche with an average price of more than 30,000 yuan is actually the "most cost-effective wine" of Romani Conti Winery. It can be seen that Ma Shuai, a local tycoon who has changed from a gangster to a real estate developer, is not stupid and rich, and he understands the "cost performance" thing very well.
Of course, there are also bugs in the play, for example, Li Chengyang's first line of the wine label is 17556, which represents the production of this wine that year, and the following line N°025230 represents that this is the first few bottles. A total of more than 17,000 bottles of wine were produced, but Li Chengyang's bottle was the 25,230th bottle, which is to say that Ma Shuai bought fake wine?
In order to do this issue, So Sister also invited a senior person - the world's first resident Chinese mainland wine master (MW, the world's highest level of wine authority certification) Teacher Zhao Fengyi, asked her to popularize more wine knowledge through La Tâche.
(Zhao Fengyi, the world's first wine master stationed in Chinese mainland)
Sohu Fashion: As a wine expert, are you a fan of "big wine"?
Zhao Fengyi: I am not a fan of "big wine", for me, "big wine" represents money, but there is no exploration, innovation, and imagination.
Sohu Fashion: What channels do "big wines" like La Tâche generally have to be received?
Zhao Fengyi: Most of the purchase channels for such wine are auction houses or liquor dealers, but both channels are dangerous and easy to buy fake wine. Relatively speaking, buying "big wine" from a long-established wine merchant can reduce the risk to a certain extent.
Sohu Fashion: In the play, Ma Shuai put La Tâche directly in the safe, is this collection worthy of the price of this wine?
Zhao Fengyi: Of course, ordinary safes are not suitable for storing wine, but if the safe itself is placed in a constant temperature and humidity space, it is OK. Wine should still be kept safely in a professional wine storage cellar.
Sohu Fashion: In the play, the vintage of one bottle of wine is 1973, the bottle is 1970, and after more than 40 years of storage, do you think the taste of these two bottles will still be good?
Zhao Fengyi: 1970 and 1973 were not particularly good years for Burgundy, so the aging potential was relatively weak. I also looked up tasting notes written by some wine lovers about the wines of these two vintages, and they said that the wines of these two vintages were slightly less delicious because they were aged and had no flavor.
Sohu Fashion: What kind of wine has greater aging potential?
Zhao Fengyi: Generally speaking, the aging potential of wine comes from three aspects: first, the taste of the wine itself is not suitable for aging, which is the most important, Burgundy red, Burgundy white, their flavors, tastes are more suitable for aging; the second aspect, to investigate the health of the grapes themselves, the year of the year and the management of the vineyard. If a vineyard encounters a good manager, its ageing potential is enhanced. The third aspect is the factor of the wine itself, such as acidity, tannins, alcohol, sugar, these four factors are high, it will also be suitable for storage. Of course, the aging potential of "big wine" is usually much greater than that of ordinary wine, which is why "big wine" is chosen.
Sohu Fashion: In addition to Lafite, Romani Conti, La Tâche, what other unknown high-priced wines?
Zhao Fengyi: In fact, in addition to bordeaux and Burgundy in France, Tuscany, Spain, Australia, California and Chile in Italy have very good wines, including "big wine". Also, many people may not know that the most expensive and aged wine in the world actually comes from Germany. Most of my personal collection of aged wines are sweet German Rieslings, which I find very delicious and have a lot of aging potential. If consumers are looking for dry red rather than sweet white, I would recommend them to buy Australian wine, of course, not just for Penfolds, there are many good wineries in Australia. It is also possible to explore some Italian wines. There are so many good wines in the world, if you only pursue these three brands, it is actually a bit like a foreigner going to a Chinese restaurant to eat, but only know how to order Kung Pao chicken, just because this dish is famous, it is a pity.