A region is easier to remember once you have seen where it lies. The portal’s maps are the plates drawn for the Court’s own book, not a general atlas.
There are 51 of them, and they cover the book country by country. This guide shows how to find the one you need, how to read it closely, and what the set does not include.
01The gallery
Open Maps and every plate appears as a card with its title. Each plate carries the Court’s own credit inside the artwork. The boundaries, colours and labels are the book’s.
The plates are grouped the way the book is. The groups run from the world view, through France, Germany and Austria, and the rest of Europe, to Eurasia and Africa, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand, and a group for Sherry, Cognac and Armagnac, which belong to the fortified wines and the spirits rather than the atlas chapter. Each group has a short note under its title. The Australia and New Zealand group, for example, shows the whole country first, then South Australia and the south-east up close.
A row of chips across the top filters the gallery. Choose France and only France’s plates show. Choose All to see the whole set again. Each chip shows how many plates its group holds.
02Reading a plate closely
Press a plate and it opens full screen. The first step fits the map to your screen. Zoom in and out through the steps up to four times, which is where the small appellation labels become readable.
Some plates came as high-resolution images rather than as line drawings that stay sharp at any size. For those, on a large screen, the zoom stops at the last step the image can show sharply, rather than offering a soft picture at a bigger number.
