Two young wine experts battle for a massive inheritance in the Apple TV+ series “Drops of God,” which suffers from pacing issues early on but grows into a lively and emotionally engrossing story by the end. Part high-stakes competition, part family drama, the action takes place in France and Japan, with a brief sojourn to Italy.
Both Camille (Fleur Geffrier) and Issei (Tomohisa Yamashita) have been named in the will of the French wine aficionado Alexandre Leger (Stanley Weber), who was renowned for his annual guide ranking the world’s best wines. For the last two decades, he was been based in Tokyo.
Camille was his estranged daughter back in France; Issei was his star pupil in Japan. Now the pair must go head-to-head — nose-to-nose, palate-to-palate — in a multi-part test of their wine expertise. The winner will get Leger’s entire estate: A house worth $7 million and a wine collection of 87,000 bottles estimated at $148 million.
