![]() Indeed its publisher Denise Bates, who has had her work cut out to produce a handsome digital version, observes that ‘very few book publishing projects on this scale are still alive'. It began life in 1971, the responsibility of my esteemed co-author Hugh Johnson, who had literally to create many of the maps from scratch. The Atlas is a particularly complex publishing challenge. (Answering this phenomenon to a certain extent, this new edition, incidentally, has more 3-D maps than ever before.) The southern hemisphere vine-grower’s response to climate change has more often been either to plant vine varieties better suited to hot summers than, say, Cabernet Sauvignon, or to move uphill where at least the nights are cooler. The ocean tends to get in the way, although in the Atlas we have had to include Chilean vineyards and the odd Argentine one much further south than any in the seventh edition. Just as we Brits are now, also partly thanks to climate change, justified in boasting about the quality of English wine.Įxtending the world of wine towards the South Pole is trickier. ![]() The vineyards of the far north of Europe are not (yet?) so numerous that Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands have each been given their own map in the new edition, but wine drinkers in all of those countries are increasingly proud of wine grown in their own vineyards, once considered too cool to ripen grapes. Having recently come to the end of two very solid years’ work updating this classic reference work for its eighth edition to be published officially on 3 October, I am particularly conscious of the changing substance and shape of the world of wine. The quality of contemporary wine may be beyond question but its provenance and character have changed out of all recognition, even since the last, seventh edition of The World Atlas of Wine was published in 2013. The truth is that in my experience, barring disastrous weather, every wine producer on the planet is making better wine every year. ‘Which wine region excites you most at the moment?’ I’m always being asked this and I never have an answer. The digital version is available as an iBook from Apple. Full details of the book, published in the US on 1 October and the UK on 3 October, and how to order, at. A version of this article shamelessly focused on our latest baby is published by the Financial Times.
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