Using our wine map tube labels, here are our plans for continued mapping of the wine world.
We would love your input.
Current maps (including Germany which we are now putting the final touches on):
Upcoming maps:
We're now committing the resources to complete all of the maps within the next year. To be honest, when we started, we thought it would be much easier. But we haven't compromised accuracy, fact checking or quality in putting our maps together. Thank you for your patience.
Any amount of input on our mapping would be greatly appreciated. To show our appreciation, we're giving away a set of our first six maps. To enter, simply write a response to this blog post. A winner will be chosen at random on Friday, November 15th 2014.
Please have a go at any one, a few or all of these questions:
- Are there any other countries or specific region(s) that you would like to see as well?
- Would you like to see more folded maps? We launched a folded version of our Italian map but the sales were just meh - perhaps because it wasn't in a set.
- Would a boxed set of all 12 maps (similar in format to the image below) appeal to you? What would be a fair price for this?
- How about electronic version - Ipad, android tablet - of all of the maps? What would be a fair price for this?
- Our current maps are 24x 36 inches. Would you like to see smaller format maps as well? Larger format?
- Last but not least, would you like to see more countries/regions in David Gissen's amazing Metro Maps Format? In a boxed and/or electronic format as well?
Any input is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your support!
Comments
This is a really old thread, but I came here longing for a Gissen Metro Map of Spain/Portugal. So one vote for that, five years later!
Love the maps. I own Iberia and the varietals chart. If you made one for Virginia, or for the North American East Coast that included Virginia, I’d buy several to give as gifts and one to keep and frame.
Could you manage a wine map of Switzerland? I know it is a niche market but the wines are amazing and worth knowing about.
I would like to have an option to buy the maps of France and Spain in 24"w x 36"h portrait format. I have purchased a few of your maps and have hung them on the wall in my wine room. I’d really like to buy the France and Spain maps but not in 36"w x 24"h landscape format as i find that it occupies too much space and i’d like to have all the maps in my wine room in 24"w x 36"h portrait format. One would have room for a 3 side by side portrait maps instead of 2 landscape maps should one hang your maps on a wall. I’d also like for the map of Spain and Portugal to just be named as “De Long Wine Map of Spain” to emphasize more on Spain as i have little to no interest in Portugal and/or its fortified wines.
Thank you. Looking forward to purchase more of your upcoming maps.
Thanks again everyone for the great comments, feedback and kind words.
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Steve:
The Washington Oregon Map, needs to be the “Pacific North West – North America”. The reason is that this map needs also include the Interior of British Columbia (the Okanagan Valley, up to Salmon Arm) at least. Really it should also include all Wineries in British Columbia.
http://www.winebc.com/discover-bc/okanagan-valley
A Boxed set would provide the ability to gift your map products more easily for sure. The reason that your boxed set’s did not sell is the end user was trying to us a folded map for travel and it did not work out very well.
The digital versions will help with travel needs, plus if you had smaller printed versions that were a little more ruggedized to put up with travel that would helpful for the older crew’s that would not use a digital version, or if someone wants to mark up or highlight a paper version.
A fair price for a boxed set? $175.00
If your goal is to drive more product, then provide a pdf only if the client buys a printed format.
if your goal is to drive more people to your site, the online media or a digital format should be 40% of the cost of a printed version. Or if you have bought a printed version, then bundle a digital format at 15%.
The maps are very well done, very well done, I like the scale, style, accuracy, layout, references and color, thus the maps have a high value quotient to anyone that appreciates wine and/or wants to.
I rarely pick out a new wine to drink without walking over to one of your current maps (that I have had professionally framed) to look review the region.
Enjoy your success…these maps will become the “Standard”.
Steve – Your maps do look awesome and I particularly like the metro style maps too. They look fabulous and would work wonders on an ipad.
So my feedback is less about future regions and more about whether you are considering creating any interactive digital maps where you can drill into a region, link into ecommerce, that sort of thing? I know that this isn’t the question that you asked,but i’m very interested in what could be done in this space and looking to invest in something like this…
So far it looks like a boxed set and an electronic version should both be put in the works as well as looking at the notebook and/or coffee table book format.
Thank you everyone for the very useful and considerate comments as well as the kind words and endorsements!
You currently have five major regions for sale and Germany (but its link shows Italy?) in final development. You have six other world regions in the upcoming category. I am not sure what your sales have been for the major regions, but I would suspect that the six in development would not surpass any of them, individually, in sales. I think you should produce these minor regions, but you might want to sprinkle in a few “moneymakers.” I would think about highly detailed breakouts, maybe at the level of the individual vineyard, of the primary sub regions, e.g. Burgundy. The Bordeaux sample download is in the right direction.
Would you like to see more folded maps? We launched a folded version of our Italian map but the sales were just meh – perhaps because it wasn’t in a set.Was the poor sales of the folded Italian because it was Italy, folded, or not part of a set? I live in a small space and I would be more likely to buy folded maps.
Would a boxed set of all 12 maps (similar in format to the image below) appeal to you? What would be a fair price for this?Yes. I would price it at the sum of the individual prices with a discount of 25%.
How about electronic version – Ipad, android tablet – of all of the maps? What would be a fair price for this?I would actually prefer an electronic version to all other versions, but it has to be more than just a digital picture. A map’s purpose is to display to me a location as quickly as possible, but with spatial context. The paper version relies on your eyesight and memory to find that location, and displays everything about it. However, a paper map’s disadvantage is that it takes up space or it takes time to unfold. The electronic version has neither of these two disadvantages. Its disadvantage is that you are only looking at a fraction of the total space (paper map gives 11-12x more information – 24 × 36 in. is 864 sq. in. vs. laptop screen 6.5 × 11.5 in. = 75 sq. in.) so you don’t get the “total picture” as easily. To make up for this, the digital image should be in a format that has a search capability.
The price for the electronic version depends on what you “package” with the image.
Our current maps are 24x 36 inches. Would you like to see smaller format maps as well? Larger format?No opinion.
Last but not least, would you like to see more countries/regions in David Gissen’s amazing Metro Maps Format? In a boxed and/or electronic format as well?NO.
First, thank you for your work, and those incredible maps! As some other customers, I do use them for structured wine tasting classes. To comment on your questions… An electronic version is a long-standing wish, and seems like the next logical step. It would open to easier updates in case of nomenclature or topographical changes. The electronic version should be about the same price as the map, although some kind of plan where you get both paper and electronic versions of a map for less than the arithmetic sum of individual prices may be a winner. The new website is a big step forward, and appreciated from a customer point of view. New wine regions that we can hope to see mapped are both major Canadian wine regions (1 – Okanagan and Similkameen, 2 – Niagara and PEC in Ontario). As for Oregon & Washington, Australia and New Zealand, well.. I’m late in suggesting them, since they are in the plans already! Concerning folded versions, it is very dependant on the use one does with the maps. I didn’t find myself going for the folded version of Italy that much, and being consistently drawn to the poster version (by the way, size is just perfect). All in all, we will be there for new products coming out from you! Thanks! (And cheers!)