Nicola Twilley interviews David Gissen on The Metro Wine Map of France, which represents the country’s wines as stops on a regional subway line:

One thing I only learned through making the map was that all the “lines,” with just a few exceptions, follow rivers or coastlines. You would not necessarily understand, by looking at a normal French wine map, the absolute centrality of the rivers, which are the routes that the Greeks and Romans used as they were moving through France and planting vines. ...