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Tomine Issie

Shisuka Kanzaki

Bartender Annie

A Sommelier Manga

This is a Mandarake shop, in Tokyo, a temple for the Moe people who read mangas and feel connected to the virtual world. The Shibuya Mandarake shop, which is located on the Hachiko exit side of the JR Yamanote station, is only a stone's throw from another shopping magnet of the area, the Tokyu Hands depato. It is a basement shop selling thousands of manga, anime and figurines (some of them are even "antiques").

This is the equivalent of the Vatican library for an otaku, and if all the books weren't sealed, they would be sitting all over the place to read all day...8 such aisles packed floor to ceiling with mangas, plus several window shelves full of figurines, enough for a lifetime of virtual world. We knew that several of these manga were wine centered and happilly, the staff knows where to find every book, and we bought a couple of them.


They're filled with stories featuring real wines with drawings of the bottles and labels, from a Griotte-Chambertin Grand Cru, Domaine Ponsot 1990 to a Richebourg Grang Cru 1959 by Henri Jayer, you'll travel into the world of fine wines, most of them from Burgundy and Bordeaux even if I spotted other wines like a California Opus One in the stories. But my real surprise was to see there bottles from one of Paris' best wine shops : a "Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Nuits récolte 2002, Selectionné par Caves Augé".... These manga writers are really well informed, or they live in Paris..


The manga on the picture above is one from a serie featuring a female sommelier. Japanese women had a sizeable role in the increasing interest for wines in Japan, and you also see many women there interested in becoming sommelier. Speaking of sommeliers, there has been so much hype around the word in Japan that the title has begun to apply to many other fields. This recent article of the Japan Times points how in a country like Japan where titles are very important, sommelier as a title became a new niche : you can even find "Onsen- (hot springs) sommeliers" or "cell-phone sommeliers"...

http://www.wineterroirs.com/2008/02/japan_wine_news.html