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    What you can learn about wine by watching new manga-based TV series 'Drops of God'

    The average TV viewer might not know much about the world of high-end wine, but the creators behind new series "Drops of God" hope to change that with only eight episodes. Shot across Japan, France and Italy, the limited series now streaming on Apple TV+ is a trilingual drama cloaked in family intrigue that divulges wine-industry knowledge — how to sip, smell and begin to identify wine — ...
    by Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times May 15, 2023 5 minutes
    From left: Tomohisa Yamashita and Fleur Geffrier compete for an inheritance in "Drops of God.”.

    The average TV viewer might not know much about the world of high-end wine, but the creators behind new series "Drops of God" hope to change that with only eight episodes.

    Shot across Japan, France and Italy, the limited series now streaming on Apple TV+ is a trilingual drama cloaked in family intrigue that divulges wine-industry knowledge — how to sip, smell and begin to identify wine — between scenes of love, trauma, mystery and tension. Its two lead protagonists must complete cryptic challenges for an inheritance that includes a wine collection worth nearly $150 million.

    The show is loosely based on the original by siblings Yuko and Shin Kibayashi (published under the pen name Tadashi Agi), which provided readers across the globe with an extensive wine education via published over a decade. With far less time and a separate medium, the TV series' team needed to condense that for

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