Attraction 1: Temple of Duke Wen of Jin
The Temple of Duke Wen of Jin is the cultural and historical source of the Rongzi Winery Scenic Area, with a history of more than 1,000 years. The area of the rebuilt Temple of Duke Wen of Jin has reached 2,850 square meters, and the old style and layout have been basically restored. The entire building is permeated with obvious Confucian thoughts, fully reflecting the unique charm and infinite charm of Eastern culture.
Attraction 2: Rongzi Academy
Rongzi Academy was built in 2009, covering an area of 3,360 square meters. It was officially completed on August 24, 2011. The academy is the creative base of the Central State Organs Branch of the Chinese Calligraphers Association. The buildings are built according to the terrain and are well-arranged. The academy is a three-courtyard stepped-style academy, with porches in front, back, left, and right, pavilions and towers connected in sequence. It integrates teaching and research, book collection and worship, garden ecology, leisure tourism, calligraphy and painting exchanges, cultural performances, and cultural relics protection. It is a comprehensive framework that has been promoted from a single grape and wine to the in-depth development of grape ecology, landforms, manors, and ruins.
Naming the academy "Rongzi" means taking a new path in winery corporate culture, shouldering the responsibilities that winery companies should shoulder in society and realizing the core values that winery companies should have.
Attraction 3: Underground Wine Cellar
It covers an area of more than 2,700 square meters and is 5.3 meters above the ground. The decoration style is elegant and simple, with a strong Chinese classic and simple charm. It consists of two major parts: the wine culture display area and the oak barrel wine storage area.
The wine culture display area vividly tells the beautiful legend of Rongzi's discovery of wine, graphically displays the ancient winemaking process, allows on-site observation of the modern winemaking process, and focuses on presenting Rongzi winemaking equipment and a full range of products. It allows one to deeply appreciate the origin, heritage and charm of Rongzi culture, and is an important window for understanding red wine brewing and Rongzi culture.
The oak barrel wine storage area has 2,400 oak barrels, which are arranged in an orderly manner like a military parade team, extending to the end of the wine cellar. They are responsible for providing an oxidizing environment, adding flavor substances, strengthening the wine structure, and highlighting the charm of the wine, and are constantly inspected by tourists. Being in the cellar is like entering the deep palace of Rongzi culture, where you can deeply appreciate the inheritance and development of the high-quality genes of Rongzi red wine, and the integration and value-added of advanced elements.
Attraction 4: Winemaking Area
The 14,000-square-meter comprehensive production workshop displays the Rongzi winemaking process in all aspects and throughout the entire process. You can see a series of refined operation procedures, such as the grapes being destemmed and crushed into pulp, being fermented in tanks for sedimentation, being aged in stainless steel tanks and oak barrels, being filtered through membranes on the filling line to become finished products for packaging, and being transported to loess caves for storage. You can feel the ingenuity of the thousands of processes required for a bottle of wine to go from the field to the dining table, feel the wonderfulness of the aged dry red wine that takes at least two years to brew, and appreciate the lingering fragrance of the Rongzi red wine that is a confluence of ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign elements.
Attraction 5: Tasting Hall
There is a wine tasting area, which also displays the Rongzi winemaking process in the Spring and Autumn Period, the distribution of grape planting bases, and the winery's full range of products in various forms. It has a strong and unique wine tasting atmosphere and is an excellent place to experience the taste of Rongzi red wine.
Attraction 6: Loess Cave Wine Storage Area
The loess cave wine storage area is a major feature of the Loess Plateau. Xiangning County is located in the western Shanxi Loess Plateau at the southern end of the Luliang Mountains, and is a typical loess plateau landform. Local residents have completely preserved the traditional loess cave living style, which has become an important part of the Rongzi Winery tour.
Souvenir the cave, there are brick carvings that originated from the 24 solar terms in the Yellow River Basin, in addition to local paper-cutting art window decorations. Relying on its resource advantages and using local materials, the winery has carefully built a loess cave wine storage area with a total area of 6,435 square meters for the later storage of wine. In the past, there was a poem praising it: Gentlemen from afar come to this village, don't laugh at the earthen cave without a house, although it is not a fairy cave, it is lovely to be warm in winter and cool in summer. Relying on its resource advantages and using local materials, the winery has built a loess cave wine storage area, which provides natural conditions for the later storage of wine in bottles, with constant temperature and humidity, avoiding direct sunlight, and also preventing noise and vibration.
Attraction 7: Rongzi Wine Grape Planting Base
It is a standardized demonstration area for wine grape cultivation and a national geographical indication protected production area named after the winery.
The base is located at 35°-36° north latitude, 950-1300 meters above sea level, with sufficient sunlight and relative dryness, a temperature difference of more than 15°C between day and night, sandy loam soil, and an average soil thickness of more than 200 meters. These microclimate characteristics and external conditions of the Loess Plateau are very suitable for the growth of high-quality wine grapes, and are praised by experts from all walks of life as the "golden zone for the growth of wine grapes."
The cooperative manages growers through order-based contract management and signs a "Grape Price and Technical Management Linkage Agreement" with growers every year based on specific requirements.
The local standard "Shanxi Wine Grape Production Technical Regulations" has been formulated and passed, and the "Rongzi Winery" has been certified as a national geographical product, passed the green food certification, and become a standardized wine grape cultivation demonstration base. The horizontal Dulong vine tree shape improvement has been completed. More than 5,800 acres of high-quality wine grape bases have been developed.
Here you can breathe in deep gulps of fresh air and look around to see the blue sky against the green leaves and the vineyards against the green hills. We can bathe in the brightness of the early morning sun together among the endless grape vines, letting our elegant mood feel unprecedented comfort and romance.
Attraction 8: Heyuan
Heyuan is the central node of the winery's comprehensive park. Heyuan has won the gold medal of "Excellent Garden Ancient Building Project". Through the Heyuan corridor, you can reach the comprehensive production workshop, Harmonious Garden, Rongzi Cultural Center, administrative office area, restaurant, Ronghe Building, Beiyuan Wine Grape Planting Professional Cooperative. Under the corridors and roads with strong ethnic characteristics is the exhibition hall of Herui Wine Culture. Heyuan adopts gray pottery and bluestone, returning to nature, and elegantly integrates "harmony" into every brick and tile. Regardless of the cultural connotation and architectural design of the winery, it insists on reflecting Chinese culture. Heyuan describes the marriage between the great Rongzi of the Rongdi country in ancient times and the Duke Xian of Jin, leaving a historical story of the mutual integration of the Chinese nation.
Attraction 9: Harmony Garden
Located to the south of Rongzi Academy, Harmony Garden corresponds to He Garden, which means harmony. Harmony Garden connects the winery's comprehensive production area, cultural area and leisure and entertainment area. Harmony Garden uses infinitely changing and eclectic artistic techniques to decorate rockery and trees in a limited space, and arrange pavilions, towers, ponds and bridges, making Harmony Garden win by scenery, and the scenery varies with the garden.
Attraction 10: Rong Garden
Rong Garden has a pool of clear water, fish swimming around, a long corridor and green shades. The harmonious and natural scene interprets the historical story of the integration of Jin and Rong, and highlights the core essence of Rongzi culture.
Rong Garden is a Chinese-style "red wine estate" that integrates accommodation, Dining, entertainment, conferences and sightseeing. It has three tea rooms for tourists to taste tea, wine and view the scenery. It provides tourists with an elegant leisure and entertainment space. Being in the garden, you will feel refreshed and relaxed, and it is the preferred place to go after dinner.
Attraction 11: Jian Garden
Jianyuan is also the winery business school. On the one hand, as the ecological background of Rongzi Winery, it can provide tourists with a place for photography, sketching and garden tours. On the other hand, it can also be used as a place to receive training groups and winery members, and can carry out a series of activities such as wine tasting, tea tasting, performances, etc., especially night performances, to enrich the night scene activities of Rongzi Winery tourism.
Attraction 12: Loess Cave Folk Hotel
Rongzi Loess Cave Folk Hotel has a total of 4 large courtyards, 148 rooms for accommodation, and a Dining that can accommodate 400 people at the same time. It is a comprehensive accommodation area that integrates study experience, accommodation and Dining, sightseeing, conference and leisure. It is a magnificent building complex with exquisite design and fine craftsmanship, which reflects the unique style of ancient Chinese residential architecture and has a very high ornamental value.
The environment here is elegant and quiet, a combination of fashion and elegance, and a collision of modernity and passion. It can help you break free from the constraints of urban pressure and give your tired mind a precious chance to rest. More importantly, you can find a long-lost sense of belonging and meet your beautiful self.