Wine-Based Comic Book Creates a Huge Seller
A French winemaker pulled a very popular wine from his stock earlier this year. Why, do you ask? It was a little too popular, and flying from his shelves a bit too quickly.
The wine had been featured in a comic book about wine (yes, such a thing does exist), titled “The Drops of God.” The story follows Kanzaki Shizuku, son of the recently deceased, world-famous wine critic Kanzaki Yutaka who’s left behind a large collection of wine. In order to inherit the legacy, Shizuku must find 13 wines described in his father’s will. His main obstacle comes in the form of his adopted brother, Toomine Issei, another well-known wine critic.
The live-action television adaptation is what seemed to put people over the edge. It ran from January to March of last year, and shortly after the finale, when the final wine was announced, heaps of Japanese wine sellers started calling the maker of the wine. (All the wines featured in the story are real — no word on whether any of them are kosher wines.) Jean-Pierre Amoreau, owner of the Château le Puy in southwestern France, was baffled by the calls, until his agent explained about the comic and TV show.
According to Amoreau, “We immediately withdrew this vintage from sale through our agents across the world in order to avoid speculation because we wanted this wine, which had been chosen as a mythical wine, to remain within reach of everyone.”
We can only hope someone follows suit and makes a comic book about kosher wines.
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