The World Atlas of Wine

After four editions of The World Atlas of Wine (Fifth Edition, Mitchell Beazley, £35), Hugh Johnson has teamed up with the wine authority Jancis Robinson, who covers most of the new ground in this guide for wine-lovers. Charting the world's vineyards and wine regions and defining the notion of terroir (what it is about a location that gives a wine its character), the new edition links the tried and tested with the terra incognita of emerging Europe and the New World. With 30 new maps and revisions of the existing 148, Robinson has come up with a blueprint of the likely premier and grand cru New World vineyards of the future – a stepping stone to a longer-term global view.