A Charming TV Series for Wine Lovers
I am not embarrassed to say I love to watch TV (no news, just football, fun series and the occasional foreign language movie with my husband) and I love wine (not a surprise). Imagine my surprise when I came across this little sleeper French-American-Japanese television series on Apple TV called Drops of God. We binged it not once but twice. Grab a glass of your favorite vino and park yourself in front of this gem. You will not be disappointed, and you might just learn a little bit about wine tasting.
Drops of God is a fictional narrative inspired by the popular manga, (I admit I had to google what this meant - comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art) series of the same name. The story follows the competition for inheritance between an heiress and a student of a deceased oenologist and delves into the world of wine, wine expertise & family dynamics.
Its popularity can be partly credited to its approachability. Drops of God provides a new window into the world and the vocabulary of wine. The average TV viewer might not know much about the world of high-end wine, but the creators behind this artfully executed series just might change that in only eight episodes. Shot across Japan, France and Italy, it is a trilingual drama cloaked in family intrigue, with wine-industry knowledge — how to sip, smell and begin to identify wine — divulged between scenes of love, trauma, mystery and tension.
Fleur Geff & Tomohisa Yamashita lead the extraordinary cast and this precious series was created by Quoc Dang Tran and directed by Oded Ruskin. Who doesn’t need a saga of cutthroat competition with notes of cool intelligence, to stimulate their refined palates. Cheers -