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 dr…

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