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HUGH JOHNSON and JANCIS ROBINSON : The World Atlas of Wine , 7th edition. Mitchell Beazley , London , 2013, 400 pp., ISBN 978-1-845-33689-9 , $55 (cloth).
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This classic reference book has sold more than four million copies since Hugh Johnson first put it out in 1971, and it is now published in 13 languages. It tells us where winegrapes are grown and is a natural companion to the seminal Robinson/Harding/Vouillamoz 2012 book on which winegrape varieties are grown around the world (Wine Grapes, reviewed in the previous issue of JWE, Vol. 8(2), 2013), as well as to Robinson's Oxford Companion to Wine (the fourth edition of which will appear in 2014).
The Atlas has been revised every six or so years since it first appeared, with Jancis Robinson joining the project beginning in 2001. If you already have an earlier edition, should you indulge in this new one? For anyone who refers at least occasionally to it, the answer is almost certainly "yes." It is worth its modest price for the new set of...