Drops of God
While the world of wine mourns the death of Alexandre Léger, his estranged daughter, Camille, learns his extraordinary collection is now hers. But before she can claim her inheritance, Camille must best Alexandre's protégé, Issei, in a test of their senses.
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Camille heads to Tokyo after receiving an unexpected call from her estranged father.
Despite her physical aversion to wine, Camille accepts her father’s challenge. Issei’s family complicates the test for him.
Issei gives a journalist stunning information about the competition. Camille thinks she’s found the first wine, but verifying it is risky.
Tensions between Camille and Issei escalate. Honoka reflects on her past after getting Hirokazu's note.
Issei and Camille puzzle over the second test, which involves a 17th-century painting and mysterious one-word clue.
Camille travels to Italy to solve the painting's riddle, while Issei stays behind to confront his mother.
Lorenzo reveals why Luca wanted Camille to oversee the Léger Wine Guide. Meanwhile, Camille and Issei fly to Paris for the third test.
Camille and Issei come to a realization.
Cast
Fleur Geffrier
Camille Léger
Tomohisa Yamashita
Issei Tomine
Tom Wozniczka
Thomas Chassangre
Stanley Weber
Alexandre Léger
Luca Terracciano
Lorenzo Inglese
Diego Ribon
Luca Inglese
Azusa Okamoto
Yurika Katase
Gustave Kervern
Philippe Chassangre
Cécile Bois
Marianne Léger
Makiko Watanabe
Honoka Tomine
Satoshi Nikaido
Hirokazu Tomine
Antoine Chappey
Talion
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1 year ago
Entertaining Family Drama - But The Factual Wine Errors Are Horrible (While The Original Manga Is Very Accurate)
Having read the very long manga series collected in 44 (!) volumes - the entire original manga is available digitally in English via Kindle Unlimited, highly recommended - I had high hopes for this new TV drama series (available on Apple TV+.).
(This is actually the second screen adaptation. There is an older series from Japan that sticks much closer to the original manga, i.e. It features two male Japanese protagonists and fewer foreigners in general. The new Apple series exchanges one of the two main Japanese protagonists for a young woman from France and alters many other key events and settings, probably in order to appeal to a wider and more diverse audience in Western countries. The new 2023 series also shortened or left out plot details, otherwise quite a few seasons would have been needed to turn all the 439 manga chapters collected in 44 comic book volumes into one TV series).
I will limit my review to the subject of wine here, since wine culture and blind tasting wine in all its shapes and forms is the main backdrop of the story arc and unfolding family drama.
There unfortunately are many obvious errors (that don't even make any sense in the liberty of film-making or advancing the plot):
The French woman going from passing out from a drop of wine to drinking huge gulps within days is very hard to believe. This is not part of the manga's plot and the script authors could have found a much better way to justify her initial distaste for wine.
Not even a MW (Master Of Wine, a title obtained after passing the most difficult exam in the Wine World globally, only a few hundred people in the World are MW diploma holders) can define a wine and vintage year just by smelling it in the glass, without even taking a sip. Pure arrogance and fake wine snobbery in the script.
That's unfortunately just the starting point, it gets worse...
