Christmas books: Wine

The World Atlas Of Wine: Sixth Edition By Jancis Robinson and Hugh Johnson Mitchell Beazley, €51.80 The 1971 publication of the World Atlas of Wine was a groundbreaking event. Before the Atlas, English wine writing had consisted of either dreary biographies of worthy members of the English wine trade or truly dreadful vintage books and charts full of sweeping assertions.

Hugh Johnson changed all that. He included detailed and beautiful maps of individual ...