{"id":4208,"date":"2011-09-29T06:26:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T12:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2011-09-29T06:26:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T12:26:42","slug":"next-stop-beaujolais-a-metro-map-of-french-wines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4208","title":{"rendered":"Next Stop Beaujolais: A Metro Map of French Wines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/40384\">Frank Jacobs:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Wine maps are appreciated mainly by the select few who are both cartophiles and oenophiles. Those who are either or neither face a formidable obstacle to cartographic enjoyment, inherent in viticulture: wine regions are a mess to map.<\/p>\n<p>In wine-making, the hyperlocal is paramount. Soil type and microclimate, production and processing methods, taste and reputation &#8211; not least the type of grapes involved &#8211; all help explain the widely differing oenological appreciations of relatively small, often adjacent plots of land.<\/p>\n<p>This is why traditional wine cartography resembles a map of rampant feudalism, with a confusing jumble of tiny dominions ineffectually jostling for the attention of the map reader.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Jacobs: Wine maps are appreciated mainly by the select few who are both cartophiles and oenophiles. Those who are either or neither face a formidable obstacle to cartographic enjoyment, inherent in viticulture: wine regions are a mess to map. In wine-making, the hyperlocal is paramount. Soil type and microclimate, production and processing methods, taste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4209,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions\/4209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}