The seminal work by the world’s most famous wine-writing duo, Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson MW, is the only book anyone who needs to know everything about the wine growing regions of the world, needs to have. It includes chapters on wine in the Ancient World. the growing seasons of vines, grape varieties, terroir, how wine is made in the vineyard and how it is made in the cellar, making, ageing, enjoying and tasting wine… plus detailed maps and descriptions of the world’s regions. The chapter on the western part of the Languedoc includes a special mention on Limoux, with a “reputation for its fine traditional method fizz”. Limoux is “clearly the Languedoc’s most promising spot for Pinot”, Mrs Robinson said with prescience in 2013, when this last edition was printed. The relatively recent in-comer to the Appellation, Rives-Blanques, was cited as “an example of an admirable wine producer”.