Zhu Yu / National first-class sommelier, owner of Mo Ci Drunken Tea Wine Culture Center
As a "three-not" gay man who does not smoke, drink alcohol, and does not chew betel nuts, there are not many people around me who love to drink, and the people who collect are even rarer.
So when Xu Sanpi ran over to me and said:
"Li Er Dog, there is a friend, specializing in the collection of old wine, you should be interested, his two floors, all kinds of old wine, is the kind of liquor with a special vintage ... As soon as I opened the door, it was all wine..."
I was immediately interested, and my heart began to think--"Some people hide swords, some people hide books, some people hide Xiao San, so what is this tibetan wine, and it is a special old wine?" Is there a Moutai of '82? Is there a 68-year-old two-pot head? ”
With curiosity about unknown territory, I, the founder of a non-famous advertising company and a part-time young man, Comrade Li Ergou, completed a cordial meeting of 3 hours, 48 minutes and 53 seconds (hereinafter referred to as Lao Zhu) at the Mo ci drunken tea wine culture center under the Yuelu Mountains and Mr. Zhu Yu, an old wine collector and a national first-class sommelier.
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He had a lot of stories and a lot of wine
Years are a pig killing knife, but also a car of pig feed, once men have passed forty, most of them have been enlarged by life, becoming a greasy middle-aged man with a shiny watery slippery belt that cannot bind his belly.
But Lao Zhu is an exception, even a professional sommelier, liquor collector, almost every day with wine and meat, but rarely maintain a well-proportioned figure. Before meeting the 3D live-action version of him, I traveled through his circle of friends beforehand. His circle of friends has a column called "Old Zhu Mijiu", which records his story of finding wine all over the country, and put some photos on the front or side.
If you just look at the photos, Lao Zhu will give people a feeling of fierce and fierce, you see what you see, believe it or not, I smoke you. But after a conversation, we found that in reality, he actually took a gentle and meticulous warm route - he was meticulous and thoughtful, his tone was gentle and courteous, and the tavern was full of people, and he always had to take good care of him. Then that day, his son was also there, and in addition to caring for us, he also spoke gently to his son from time to time, and his words were also gentle.
After walking around the winery without growing a fat body, traversing the landscape is still gentle in his heart, after seeing the real body of Lao Zhu for 1 minute and 20 seconds, I have a premonition - our old Comrade Zhu must be a male classmate with a story.
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"Didn't buy a house, didn't buy a car,
So many years of savings
It's all in the wine."
After a brief greeting, Lao Zhu took me to a special tour of the old wine warehouse he guarded with several large iron gates, and after visiting the saliva that flowed a few feet long, I interrogated the value of the wine collected by Lao Zhu.
"Not necessarily, millions of absolutely, some rare wine, or a little expensive." Old Mr. Zhu replied. He introduced that he is different from the average person who has money and is used to buying a villa, a car, a bag, and he has money to buy wine, which is a kind of addiction to chopping hands that he has developed since he was in his twenties.
"I started collecting liquor from a very early age, that would be, I was in a company engaged in office automation, that would be the founding team of the company, and the boss together step by step to achieve the company from a small store to a scale of hundreds of millions." So that will be my income can still be, in addition to the dividend at the end of the year, there are also tens of thousands of dollars of wages every month, the first thing to get the salary, is to buy wine, a few boxes at a time to buy, the result is quickly the company's warehouse is full. ”
When Lao Zhu talked about this, there was a feeling of bling-bling in his eyes, and people also seemed particularly excited, and I knew that this was the state that people only had when they talked about what they really loved. He said with great interest, and I stood aside, obviously feeling a mood: "Although I don't have a bungalow and a luxury car like many of my peers, there is this full house of good wine, old Zhu I, is also a rich person." ”
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"Wine is my second life"
"Wine is my second life." When asked about the meaning of wine to him, Lao Zhu gave me a high-level answer.
"When I am lonely, wine is my friend who relieves loneliness; when I am happy, wine is the lover I share joy; when I am frustrated, wine is my sympathetic confidant. When you really understand wine, you understand wine, you will have this feeling. ”
Lao Zhu continued to make interpretations, and when he said these words, his expression was far and deep, as if the memories of decades flowed through his eyes and turned into a wisp of wine in the air.
After talking about the meaning of wine to him, Old Zhu incidentally told the story of his association with baijiu. At first, because his father was not in good health, a man prescribed a medicine and needed to find a suitable wine to make a medicine. As a son, he always wanted to find a more suitable wine for his father, and when he looked around, he found that not all liquors were suitable, and not all liquors were good. He was exposed to more wine, and he slowly changed from a young man who did not stick to wine to a liquor master.
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"2400 km,
Just for a good bottle of wine."
Old Zhu loves wine, but is not alcoholic. According to his own words, he likes to drink, rather than "Wang Zong, I did it, you are free" kind of wine table exchange, he prefers to be alone with wine, in a quiet mood, feel the joy of the tip of the tongue and wine meet.
"I can't say which specific wine I like the most, each wine has its own taste, has its own personality, just like people, some people are violent, some people are gentle, some people have aftertaste, some people are entangled with you... I've drunk thousands of wines, and each wine has something I like. ”
When I asked him if he had a taste preference, his answer seemed fraternal, although I had a dedicated personality, but at the same time I also knew that as a professional sommelier, it was necessary to be a good sea king.
Because of the obsession with wine, coupled with the various updates and iterations of the national distilleries, many good wines have become history, and the charming wine aroma is also scattered among the people, so Lao Zhu often needs to go all over the country to find wine.
The journey of finding wine is always full of stories, Lao Zhu said that a few years ago, he met a wine friend on the Internet, he had a bottle of vintage scarce wine, but the wine friend was in Jilin, more than 2400 kilometers away from Changsha. As a result, he flew to that side with a special trip, and the huge sincerity impressed the other party, and finally put the wine in his pocket.
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"I don't necessarily sell if I have money,
People call me a "drunkard."
In the circle of friends, Lao Zhu often posts some paragraphs and ridicules life, and I once thought that Lao Zhu was a wild disciple of Guo Degang.
"Although I am old, I still have to pay attention to the sense of network, write and write paragraphs, do not hide from you, don't look at the current live broadcast fire, I have been a senior male anchor for four or five years." Lao Zhu introduced to us that he hid wine, and naturally did the wine business, often sharing some good wine with friends, because wine friends are all over the place, so he usually recommends some wines that he recognizes to everyone through live broadcasting.
I asked Old Zhu what others usually call him.
"Some friends call me a "liquor monster", such as selling alcohol, not only looking at money, but also looking at people, people are not suitable, how much money is not sold." Lao Zhu said that as a person who loves wine, a lot of good wine and old wine are obtained through hardships, and naturally hope to fall into the hands of people who really love it and understand it, so sometimes when he meets friends who can talk, he will give it away for free, if he encounters the lord who throws a bunch of money, he is not willing to fight that deal.
Hearing Lao Zhu's statement, I vaguely felt that this was a kind of lost chivalrous style - when I met a person with a relationship, the wine and sword were given to the hero, and when I met someone who did not throw in the towel, I was embarrassed, and I did not send it slowly.
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"May the drinkers of the whole world,
All drink healthy and good wine"
In addition to continuing to collect good wines, Lao Zhu is now focusing on the reproduction of Baisha Liquor, Xiangshan Wine, Lidu Wine and Pingba Cellar Wine based on his decades of understanding of wine.
"They used to be very good wines, because of historical reasons, these two wines gradually lacked a sense of existence in the market, but I understand them, I think good wine should not be buried, so I found a lot of people, spent a lot of time, is working with the old winery, restore their most classic craftsmanship, let everyone feel the fragrance and alcohol of the years."
Lao Zhu said that the reproduction of old wine needs to invest a lot of money, but he is not worried about the sales of wine, so many years of dealing with wine, for the good and bad of wine he has long understood 120%. He said he was a little paranoid about making products. But we also know that there are many things that only brave people can do, and only paranoid people can accomplish.
At the end of the interview, I asked about Lao Zhu's wishes.
"I hope that the world's drinkers can drink healthy and good wine, whether they have money or not, don't drink the kind of wine that uses alcohol to hook, maybe it sounds a little empty, a little big, but this is my real idea, my real wish." 」
"I also recommend that although the wine is good, don't covet the cup."
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