Wine Atlas of Germany

This work is a translation. The original German language publication (Braatz et al., 2007) was not consulted, and so this review is not an evaluation of the precision or other qualities of the translation itself.

An atlas to one of the world’s best-loved regions of viticulture makes title like this of broad interest to libraries around the world. The front matter contains couple brief chapters about grape varieties, a history of Germany winemaking and commentary on German wine law. The information about grape varieties is presented in very brief tabular form, and includes origins, descriptive characteristics, area...