”Sommelier” Story by Araki Jo, picture by Shinobu Kaitani, and edited by Kenichi Hori.
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Why does he keep looking for a very rare wine among a hundred thousand kinds of wines?
“There is no wine that I am looking for.”
Jo Satake, a Japanese sommelier who won at the sommelier contest in France, is a genius sommelier who can tell its brand, the kind of grapes used, and the location of the wine even it is a vintage wine. What he really wants is, however, not fame or honor but only one thing that is a memorial wine that his step mother gave him. Why does he keep looking for a very rare wine among a hundred thousand kinds of wines?
Jo Stake solves other people’s problems and worries by telling stories of wines with his heart for loving wine and for entertaining guest. What is a secret of his birth? Is he able to find his disappeared step mother at the end? What happens to his memorial wine?
This comic was made into a TV drama and it sparked a boom of sommelier.