1970 Sopexa Map of France Wine Regions

This is a c. 1970 SOPEXA and Comité national des vins de France map of France and its wine regions. Over a dozen prominent French wine regions are highlighted using different colors, including Champagne, Bordeaux, Côtes-du-Rhone, Val-de-Loire, Côtes-de-Provence, Bourgogne, and Beaujolais. Smaller regions, including Chablis, Jura, and Savoie are labeled as well. Aditionally, the areas where Cognac and Armagnac are distilled appear as well. France's rivers are illustrated and its major cities, such as Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nice, Marseille, and Avignon. A charming illustration of a French vineyard decorates the bottom border.

Publication History and Census

This map was created by Edery and was jointly published by SOPEXA and the Comité national des vins de France. Several editions were published during the 1970s and 1980s. One example from the 1970s is cataloged in OCLC and is part of the institutional collection at ETH-Bibliothek Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland.