This was good, and made me want to like wine. This is a series I hope to continue reading (as long as it doesn't become tedious).

So cinematic and rammed full of wine facts! Lovely art style and pacing! I will be planning on sprinting through the whole series if my Kindle Unlimited subscription isn't cancelled. I have to see if this pilot is the shiny tip of a shipwreck or the gilded edges of a luxurious 3 mastes barque.

Me, the other day: Why the heck do I have four volumes of this manga I have never even heard of?

Answer: I got them for free.

And volume 1 was surprisingly good! I like drinking wine but am not a Wine Person, and in fact find most wine talk pretentious and annoying. But the main characters in this are cutely dorky about it, until it just seems like any other Special Interest, and I support Special Interests. Getting to visually manifest the goofy wine descriptions helps a lot, too.

The plot involves some silly inheritance drama, but hey, that's fun too.

I will finish the other three volumes eventually, at least so I can pass them on to someone else who will enjoy them.

This graphic novel completely hit the spot. Charming, instructive, poetic, and with a nice little plot. A famous wine critic dies and his prodigal son is instructed to taste and identify twelve wines in order to inherit the critic's legendary, exquisitely curated collection of rare vino. If he fails, he loses everything to a mercenary infante terrible of the wine world. In this volume, the young man tries wine for the first time, and the tasting returns to him potent lost childhood memories of his dead mother... he can sense the the moment the grapes were picked and exactly where through his sensitive nose and tongue but does not know the vocabulary of wine at all. He and his rival "brother" compete in their first battle with their palates. The reader learns about wine and its powers and nuances together with this prodigal genius as he comes home to his fatherland, the world of wine.

*After reading, I bought this entire series for my parents... they have a small vineyard and love to make--- and taste--- wine.

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