Map The Wine

Map The Wine

An atlas of 108 wine regions in 16 countries. Pick a country below, or explore the map.

Start with a country

ArgentinaAustraliaChileChinaFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNew ZealandPortugalRomaniaRussiaSouth AfricaSpainUkraineUnited States
Pale countries are in the atlas. Click one to zoom in and see its regions. Drag to pan; Ctrl and scroll, or pinch, to zoom. Borders: Natural Earth.
108wine regions, each with its own map and guide
16countries, from Argentina and Australia to Ukraine and the United States
65grapes you can follow from region to region

How to read the maps

  1. Start on the world map and click a pale country. It zooms in and shows its regions.
  2. Shaded areas show roughly where a region lies. Where a region is smaller than any official district, a round shape marks its rough extent. These areas are approximate, not legal boundaries.
  3. Open a region to see it close up, with its best-known appellations and wine towns, and links to the people who define it.
Rows of vines on a river valley slope above a village on the Mosel
Mosel, Germany
Terraced hillsides above the Douro river seen across an olive grove
Douro, Portugal
Eighteenth-century map of the Champagne government in two sheets with roads and a green boundary
Champagne in 1797
A vineyard at dusk, timelapse, USDA, public domain.

Wine is easiest to understand as a place.

Before the grape, the label or the price there is a hillside, a river, a climate, and someone who decided to plant vines there. Each region here is placed on a real map, with the appellations and towns that give it its name.

Follow a grape across the maps