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酒莊介紹
西鴿酒莊成立于2017年，酒莊的創(chuàng)立者張言志，是法國波爾多葡萄酒學(xué)院畢業(yè)的專業(yè)釀酒師，曾師從世界葡萄酒教父級人物Denis Dubourdieu教授，也是波爾多葡萄酒學(xué)會（Académie du vin de Bordeaux ）的首位中國籍成員。他的目標(biāo)，是釀造一款被專業(yè)人士喜愛、行銷世界的“中國葡萄酒”，而西鴿酒莊就是為這個目標(biāo)而創(chuàng)立。
西鴿酒莊選址于寧夏賀蘭山東麓青銅峽鴿子山產(chǎn)區(qū)，賀蘭山東麓被眾多國際專業(yè)人士譽為“中國葡萄酒的未來”，而青銅峽則是賀蘭山東麓最早規(guī)模化種植葡萄的產(chǎn)區(qū)，也是擁有深厚歷史底蘊的古老土地，一萬年前的舊石器文明在酒莊旁邊的“鴿子山遺址”留下了歷史的痕跡。酒莊在鴿子山產(chǎn)區(qū)擁有30000畝葡萄園，其中15000畝是22年樹齡以上的老藤葡萄園，5000畝是2017年后種植的葡萄園，現(xiàn)還有10000畝葡萄園新項目正在建設(shè)中。葡萄園坐落在賀蘭山腳下的沖積層上，土壤類型豐富，有沙質(zhì)土壤、粘土土壤、碎石土壤等，為葡萄品種提供了多樣性的自然條件。根據(jù)不同土壤特點，酒莊種植了蛇龍珠、赤霞珠、黑比諾等紅葡萄酒品種，以及霞多麗、長相思等白葡萄品種，這些品種在當(dāng)?shù)貨鏊稍?、陽光充足的氣候條件下表現(xiàn)非常優(yōu)異。酒莊也選擇了馬瑟蘭、瓊瑤漿等20多個品種做嘗試，并希望在未來找到更適合當(dāng)?shù)仫L(fēng)土的葡萄品種。
西鴿酒莊的建筑具有當(dāng)代特色，它是用近20萬塊賀蘭山石壘成的具有中國古城特色兼具現(xiàn)代感的巨大圓形建筑，其外圓內(nèi)方的建筑結(jié)構(gòu)既蘊涵著中國傳統(tǒng)文化的謙和智慧，又彰顯著成為國際頂級酒莊的勃勃雄心。酒莊總建筑面積約2.5萬平米，包含葡萄酒釀造區(qū)、橡木桶酒窖、灌裝區(qū)、瓶裝陳釀酒窖、專業(yè)品鑒區(qū)、游客接待中心、莊園酒店和有機特色餐廳，年設(shè)計產(chǎn)能1000萬瓶。
西鴿酒莊擁有中國先進的生產(chǎn)設(shè)備，包括擁有自主專利技術(shù)的發(fā)酵罐、新西蘭智能溫控釀造系統(tǒng)、德國和法國領(lǐng)先的前處理設(shè)備、意大利先進灌裝線、葡萄園智慧農(nóng)業(yè)控制系統(tǒng)、數(shù)千只法國橡木桶等，這些設(shè)施為西鴿釀造高產(chǎn)量、高品質(zhì)的葡萄酒提供了必要基礎(chǔ)。正是基于這些先進的設(shè)備，以及高標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的工藝要求，西鴿酒莊2019年10月通過世界最高標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的“BRC國際質(zhì)量認(rèn)證”。
西鴿，以“讓世界愛上中國葡萄酒”的樸素理想，正在向世界講述中國葡萄酒的故事。
Xige Estate, founded in 2017, is a top winery which is the most world-leading and largest producer of quality wines at Helan Mountain’s east foothill wine region of Ningxia. It is also an innovative winery that seeks to blaze new trails for Chinese wines. Its founder Zhang Yanzhi, a Bordeaux L'Ecole du Vin trained winemaker, used to sit under Professor Denis Dubourdieu, who has been known as the “Godfather of world wines”, and is the first Chinese member in Académie du vin de Bordeaux. His goal is to make a “Chinese wine variety” liked by professionals and sold all over the world, and that’s why Xige Estate was founded.
Xige Estate is located in the Dove Mountain vineyards area in Qingtongxia at Helan Mountain’s east foothill of Ningxia. The Helan Mountain’s east foothill is praised as “the future of Chinese wines” by many international professionals, and Qingtongxia is the earliest area that has considerable plantings of vines, as well as a place with profound historical deposits, where the “Dove Mountain Site” from the Paleolithic age 10,000 years ago was preserved. Xige Estate currently has 1,333.33 hectares of vines in this area, including 1,000 hectares over 22 years old and the other 333.33 hectares newly planted since 2017. The cool and dry climate with sufficient sunshine and rich soil types including alluvial sand, clay soil and gravel in the fertile alluvium deposits at the foot of Helan Mountain have allowed a wide range of grape varieties to grow well here, including Cabernet Gernischt, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir for red and Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc for white. Two dozen varieties including Marselan and Traminer are also tried and it is expected that varieties fitting local terroir better can be found.
Built with nearly 200,000 stones from Helan Mountain, the circular-shaped Xige Estate Winery is like a fortress boasting a sleek design and Chinese motifs. The architectural structure with a round outside but square inside implies the quality of modesty and wisdom in Chinese traditional culture while also manifesting its ambition of becoming a world top winery. On its 25,000 km2 land, there are production workshops, oak barrel cellar, filling workshop, bottled aged wine cellar, professional tasting area, visitor center, winery hotel and organic restaurant. The most complete facilities and highest architectural standard in Ningxia enable it to have an annual designed capacity of 10 million bottles.
Xige Estate is a winery with the most advanced production equipment in China, including the fermentation tanks with proprietary intellectual property rights, intelligent temperature-control brewing system from New Zealand, advanced pretreatment equipment from Germany and France, advanced filling line from Italy, vineyard intelligent agricultural control system and thousands of French oak barrels, which are quite necessary for the high production and high quality of wines. Based on the advanced equipment and high requirements on crafts, Xige Estate is the first among Chinese wineries passing the world highest “BRC international quality certification” in October 2019.
Aspiring to “CHINESE TO,” Xige is telling the stories of Chinese wines to the world.
