600 Bottles. One Story.
The inaugural vintage from the most influential wine storytellers of our time.
Only 600 produced. No second vintage guaranteed.
Each bottle presented in a handcrafted Japanese cedar box.
The Vineyard
High on the slopes of Mount Veeder — at 600 meters, where the fog clears and the sun lingers — Saffron Vineyard tends its vines with organic care. This is one of Napa Valley's most demanding terroirs: steep grades, volcanic soils, and a cool climate that forces the grapes to concentrate everything they have.
When Shin and Yuko Kibayashi searched the world for the right vineyard to produce their first wine, they chose this family-run estate for a reason. The land itself tells a story — of patience, of struggle, of depth. Every bottle of Prologue RED carries that altitude and intensity.
The Blend
Prologue RED 2022 is a considered blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc — each variety contributing its own voice to the conversation. The Cabernet Sauvignon brings structure and dark fruit depth. The Merlot rounds the mid-palate with plush texture. The Cabernet Franc adds an aromatic lift, with notes of violet and graphite.
Organically farmed. Carefully selected. Only 600 bottles produced. This is not a wine made for volume — it is a wine made for meaning.
Critical Acclaim
The Drops of God has had a legendary reputation among global wine aficionados for the better part of the last decade.
Forbes
We had a team from French TV in Japan for the last month interviewing the authors for a report on the increasing sales of wine in Japan, which, due to 'The Drops of the Gods', are said to be up by more than 20 percent. The camera crew are just packing away their gear when The Japan Times arrives to interview the authors, siblings Yuko and Shin Kibayashi, who co-write the manga under the pen name of Tadashi Agi.
Japan Times
A dream long in the making, this wine tells a story in every glass. Born from the organically farmed Saffron Vineyard, high in the Mount Veeder region, its bold terroir and delicate nuances mirror the journey of life itself. With Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc, we've created a wine of depth, elegance, and narrative: each sip revealing a new chapter. More than a Napa wine, it's a bottled expression of our world. We invite you to taste the story.
Shin and Yuko Kibayashi
Why Terroir?
Terroir. The one word that refuses to be defined. It holds the sun and shadow, the stone and rain, the quiet patience of roots and the sudden laughter of harvest. It is the story the land tells when no one is speaking.
We don't try to tame that story. We try to listen to it from every angle. Each block, each row, each vintage is a different voice of the same place, a new chapter written in soil, wind, and time. From those many voices come multiple expressions of one terroir, like panels in a manga that together reveal a single, deeper truth.
This is our dedication: to the vineyards that give us their many faces, to the farmers and winemakers who draw those faces into the glass, and to "Terroir" itself, the name we chose because nothing else could hold all that this place has to say.
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¥225,000
Only 600 produced. No second vintage guaranteed.
Each bottle presented in a handcrafted Japanese cedar box.
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