Drops of God Series

The award-winning comic about wine that has been a hit not just all over Asia but also in France! Apple TV live-action drama series was recent winner of International Emmy Award!

Yutaka Kanzaki, a wine critic whose reviews have enough clout to move the industry worldwide, has died—leaving behind a wine collection worth over two billion yen. Only the one who can name his favorite bottles, plus vintages, will inherit this dream of a cellar. It’s a battle between Yutaka’s biological son Shizuku and adopted child Issei to identify these “Twelve Apostles”—along with the very best wine in his collection, the so-called “Drops of God.”

The award-winning comic about wine that has been a hit not just all over Asia but also in France! Apple TV live-action drama series was recent winner of International Emmy Award!

Now an Apple Original series

Much-anticipated and now much-lauded stateside, the international bestseller continues as wine novice Shizuku takes on the scion of a retail chain, a mystery writer at odds with her difficult past, and last but not least, his arch-rival: genius taster Issei Tomine.

“My favorite wine book of 2011… Pick up this first volume at your sleep’s peril. It’s a one-nighter, a wine tale that is equal parts coming-of-age, love and detective stories. Along its nervy way,it nonetheless plainly explains various wines, wine talk and the how-to of wine tasting. As a graphic novel, it gets across a lot more emotion and imagery than mere prose…You’ll be drunk with anticipation.”
—The Chicago Tribune

The award-winning comic about wine that has been a hit not just all over Asia but also in France! Apple TV live-action drama series was recent winner of International Emmy Award!

Now an Apple Original series

The first of the heaven-sent bottles is revealed in these pages. No less gripping: the dramas of memory that unfold as Shizuku helps out an amnesiac painter, Chosuke hears from the French lady of his unrequited longings, and Miyabi meets a former classmate turned newly-rich snob for whom wines are merely brands. 

“Absolute page-turner… It’s the sweeping two-page illustrations of taste-transporting moments (a shirt-tearing jam by rock band Queen, a maiden fleeing through strawberry fields) that better capture wine’s great allure than a thousand dry scribblings on history and weather conditions.” 
—Time Out New York

“An almost psychedelically beautiful work…It’s like Speed Racer crossed with Wine Spectator.” 
—The Daily Dish (LA Times)

The award-winning comic about wine that has been a hit not just all over Asia but also in France! Apple TV live-action drama series was recent winner of International Emmy Award!

Now an Apple Original series

Continuing the gorgeous visual renditions of aroma and flavor, this volume introduces the concept of the mariage of food and wine, and not a few French and Italian finds that your palate and wallet alike are bound to appreciate. 

“While many adults might not ordinarily consider spending their time with a comic book in hand, The Drops of God is worth a look.”
—vinography

“It makes learning about wine—which, let’s face it, can be a totally tedious thing for the non-obsessed—really fun.” 
—Gilt Taste

The award-winning comic about wine that has been a hit not just all over Asia but also in France! Apple TV live-action drama series was recent winner of International Emmy Award!

Now an Apple Original series

The cult manga and basis for the International Emmy® Award-winning drama adaptation is now back in print! Learn about legendary vintages and affordable secrets while enjoying a page-turner that dives deep into the sensory worlds that await within wine bottles. 

When famed wine critic Kanzaki passes away, his will reveals that his fortune of a wine collection won’t simply be bequeathed to his only son, who in a snub to his father went to work sales at a beer company. To earn his inheritance, Shizuku must identify—in competition with a stellar young critic—twelve heaven-sent wines whose impressions the will describes in flowing terms…

“Arguably the most influential wine publication for the past 20 years.” 
—Decanter Magazine