Wine is geography in a bottle and a really detailed wine atlas should be at every wine lover’s elbow. Hugh Johnson assembled the first edition of the magisterial World Atlas of Wine half a century ago and went on to produce three more. Jancis came on board in 1998 and has now been responsible for another four editions. Total sales worldwide for the first seven editions are 4.7 million in 14 languages

This latest edition offers

• 416 pages, 16 more than the 7th edition

• 230 maps, 20 new

• Brand new design, including easily-digestible summaries and leader lines to points of interest on the maps

• Completely revised introduction, including new sections on climate change, and financial aspects of wine

• Special pages now devoted to St Helena, British Columbia, Uruguay, Brazil, Lebanon, Israel and Cyprus

• Expanded coverage of Alentejo, Central Coast, Chile, Yarra Valley, Marlborough and China

• Many maps extended

• New infographics

• New soil maps of Beaujolais and Marlborough