When did the first wine maps appear? How do you go about constructing a wine map for a new region? Sarah Kemp talks with Chris Foulkes, who arguably has had more experience in producing wine maps than anyone, about this fascinating part of publishing. Chris was the publisher at Mitchell Beazley who oversaw the third edition of Hugh Johnson’s “World Atlas of Wine” in 1985, the first time that the maps had been produced in full colour, a major step: “A quarter of a million pounds, just the work actually done to create the maps before we printed, bound and sent it round the world.” He has since gone on to produce a world wine encyclopaedia with Larousse, the Bordeaux Atlas and, more recently, “Inside Burgundy” with Jasper Morris MW and “Inside Bordeaux” with Jane Anson.