Chablis vineyard classification—Burgundy wine bubble/potato map—Nicolas 1926

£110

SKU: P-6-112319

'Carte du vignoble de Chablis dressée pour les Établissements Nicolas'


A colourful 1926 map of the Chablis vineyards, prepared for Établissements Nicolas and centred on the town and River Serein, extending to Fontenay, La Chapelle-Vaupelteigne, Chichée, Poinchy and Milly. Named climats, including Vaudésir, Valmur, Grenouille, Les Clos and Blanchot, are graded as “têtes de premiers crus”, premiers, deuxièmes and troisièmes crus, recording an interwar commercial hierarchy before the Chablis AOC of 1938. Graphically, the map is remarkably forward-looking. Eschewing dense topographical detail, it translates this complex geography into broad fields of salmon, orange, green and yellow, whose interlocking outlines form a vivid patchwork. Colour functions decoratively and analytically, making the hierarchy legible while giving the image the bold, almost abstract character of a modern infographic. Produced nearly two decades before Abercrombie and Forshaw’s celebrated London “potato map”, it strikingly anticipates that design’s organic colour-zoning and visual economy. The result is unusually inventive information design as well as attractive wine cartography.

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Size 17 x 26 cm | 6.5 x 10.0 inches

Date Published: 1926

Type: Colour-printed folding vineyard classification map

Author: Établissements Nicolas

Cartographer unidentified; Établissements Nicolas, commissioner and publisher; Georges Montorgueil, author; Armand Vallée, illustrator of source volume; Poyet Frères, printer

Publication: Monseigneur le Vin

Georges Montorgueil, Monseigneur le Vin, Livre troisième: Le Vin de Bourgogne. Paris: Établissements Nicolas, 1926

Condition: Good |

Good; suitable for framing. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. This is a folding map. There is nothing printed on the reverse side, which is plain

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