Map The Wine

About the atlas

Map The Wine is a journey of sensory discovery: wine understood as a place.

What this atlas is

Map The Wine is an atlas of wine places. It has 16 countries and 108 regions. Start from the world map on the home page: zoom, pan, hover for a name and click through to a country, then to a region. Every region sheet has its own map, with appellations and wine towns where they are known, followed by a short description of the land, the climate, the grapes and the wines.

How the sheets are made

Each sheet is a starting point for a place, not a buying guide. Facts such as appellation names, grape varieties, classification systems and dates are checked against published sources, and each sheet links to them at the bottom: appellation and trade bodies where they exist, the OIV, UNESCO for listed landscapes, and reference articles. Where a figure changes every year, such as planted area or production, the sheet says little or leaves it out, and points to the body that publishes it. Appellation rules and classifications are revised from time to time, so check the producer's own body before you rely on them for a purchase or an exam.

Maps

Country and first-level borders come from Natural Earth, which is in the public domain, and are simplified for the web. Region areas on the maps are approximate. Where a wine region matches one or more administrative areas, those are shaded; where it is smaller, a rounded shape shows its rough extent. Dots mark appellations and wine towns. None of these is a legal boundary, and none should be used for navigation. Borders follow the internationally recognised ones, so Crimea is shown as part of Ukraine.

Corrections

If you find a mistake or have a better source, write to info@mapthewine.com.

Pictures

The pictures are paintings, prints, maps and photographs from public collections and Wikimedia Commons, all in the public domain or under CC0:

Older addresses

Earlier addresses of the form /wine-regions-of-country-region/ forward to the matching sheet.