New – a portable Atlas
Monday 7 September 2009
Just out, as trailed on TV Jancis, is this season's offering for your bookshelf, or rather for your briefcase, backpack and what is quaintly known by some as the glove compartment of your car, the Concise World Atlas of Wine. 
Two years ago we launched the 6th, heavily revised edition of the mother book, the classic World Atlas of Wine by Hugh Johnson and me, with major input from Julia Harding MW. (You wouldn't believe how many people think it's enough to have the original edition published in 1971. Even the 5th edition published in 2001 is way...
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