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.
People are also reading… "There are three categories of people who are going to watch the show," said series creator Quoc Dang Tran ."The people who don't know much about wine but are intrigued by it; the people who love the manga; and the connoisseurs, the oenophiles — and the two last categories are the guardians of the temple."
Food and Cooking 'American Born Chinese' could be next big show for Disney+ In his series, the drama unfolds around the inheritance left by one of the world's most prolific wine authorities. His estranged daughter, Camille Léger , must compete against the wine titan's protege, Issei Tomine , for a home in Japan and one of the world's most comprehensive wine collections.
To fit dozens of volumes of text into a miniseries, Dang Tran had to pare down the 12 wines that needed to be identified in the manga to only three."If you've read only one volume of the manga, you still know how dense and how didactic it was — which are two great qualities for manga, but not so much for a TV show," he said.
While the verbiage, the comfort in gestures and establishing the inner workings of the wine industry were crucial to building a believable world to Pradal, most important to the sommelier was conveying the people behind the bottles: the vintners, the farmers, the families who care for the vines, sometimes for multiple generations.
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