There are many beautiful places in the Northwest. Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, and Gansu are all desirable places. In fact, the low-key Ningxia is no exception. As the hometown of Xixia and an important node on the Silk Road, it has the famous desert scenic spot Shapotou, China Shahu, the top ten charming lakes, Shuidonggou, a cultural site of the Paleolithic Age, the mysterious tombs of Xixia kings...and many other familiar and well-known scenic spots at home and abroad.
In the more than 60,000 square kilometers of land in Ningxia, besides the well-known famous scenic spots, there are many places that are not so famous, but still worth exploring and visiting, such as the one we met on the second day of #见内宁夏# Chateau Changyu Moser XV is one of them.
This winery sounds very foreign, and its architectural style is also very cool. It belongs to the thick and dignified European Byzantine style. The overall architectural communication is stable and harmonious, with a strong artistic beauty. From a distance, it looks like an ancient castle. .
Moser XV Winery is located in the High-tech Industrial Development Zone of Yinchuan City. It was built by Yantai Changyu Company with an investment of more than 700 million yuan. A high-end comprehensive manor integrating tourism and sightseeing.
According to the staff, the eastern foot of Helan Mountain in Ningxia, where the winery is located, has a vast Yellow River impact plain. The soil has excellent air permeability, high organic matter content, and sufficient sunshine. The annual accumulated temperature is higher than other areas at the same latitude, which is very suitable for planting high-quality Grapes are known as "the winemaker's paradise", so the winery was built here because of the unique geographical advantages of the local area.
This castle-style winery building is divided into four floors, including three above ground and one underground. The ground floor is the reception hall, canning production line, DIY production area, and film and television hall; the second floor is the wine museum; the third floor is the multi-functional area such as the conference room, OIV wine room, and wine academy. The basement level is mainly a large underground wine cellar with 2,700 oak barrels and a VIP wine tasting room.
Regarding the origin of the name of this winery, the introduction of the staff is as follows: In order to commemorate the father of modern viticulture, the Austrian Ross Moser XIII (invented trellis planting, the book "Vipe Planting" was translated as 17 Published in a foreign language, known as the "Bible of Viticulture")'s contribution to grape cultivation, but also because his descendant, the fifteenth generation successor Ross Moser, is the chief winemaker of the winery, so This winery was named Ningxia Changyu Moser XV Winery.
In the museum on the second floor, there are not only many pictures and texts to popularize the knowledge of red wine, but also many physical displays, coupled with professional staff explanations, let us understand the whole process from grape planting to wine brewing, which contains rich science Knowledge, covering botany, biology, chemistry and microbiology, etc., just as the founder of modern winemaking technology and French microbiologist Pasteur said: "A bottle of wine contains more knowledge than all books.
As early as 2,000 years ago, Zhang Qian, who was on a mission to the Western Regions, brought back grapes and winemaking technology. Since then, the people of the country have formed an indissoluble bond with wine. Poems such as "Grape wine luminous cup, if you want to drink pipa, immediately remind you", "Wine, Jinpoluo, Wu Ji's fifteen fine horses" are even more different from white wine. The taste has been passed down through the ages. In modern times, my country has become a world-famous red wine production and consumption country, but Ningxia, which is not a large area, has quietly occupied a quarter of China's total planting area for wine grapes, with an annual wine output of nearly 10. 10,000 tons (120 million bottles), I believe this will definitely surprise many people.
Interestingly, the Wine Culture Museum on the second floor is also equipped with wine knowledge interactive game areas such as "Happy Nose", "Sensitive Tongue", and "Mystery of Oak Barrels", allowing everyone to explore the mysteries of wine through experience. Here you can also learn the correct wine tasting under the explanation of the sommelier, how to understand a bottle of red wine from the aspects of color, light and shadow, taste, wall hanging and so on.
Around the winery, extending to the foot of Helan Mountain, there are more than 100,000 mu of wine grapes planted. Although we did not encounter a lot of fruit during this trip, the spectacular scene can definitely be compared with the famous grape valley in Xinjiang. . Although there are so many wineries all over the country, there are very few wineries like Moser XV that not only have a large scale, but also have such a large vineyard. Presumably this is also an important reason why it can become a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. One of the reasons for it.
