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Since its launch in 1973 Johnson has been President of the Sunday Times Wine Club, part of Laithwaites, now the world's largest mail-order wine merchant. From 1986 to 2001 he was a Director of the Bordeaux First Growth [[Chateau Latour]] and in 1990 was a co-founder of the Royal Tokaji Wine Company in an attempt to rebuild the foundering [[Tokaji]] industry after Communism. In 1986 he started the Hugh Johnson Collection, which sold (until 2010) wine glasses and other artefacts related to wine, mainly in the Far East, with a shop in [[St James's Street]], London.
His book ''Vintage: The Story of Wine'', an authoritative 500-page compendium, was first published in 1989 by Octopus, and re-edited in 2004 as a fully illustrated edition published by Mitchell Beazley. It also was made into a 13-part TV series for Channel 4 and
In 1973 Johnson wrote ''The International Book of Trees''. In 1975 he became Editorial Director of the journal of the [[Royal Horticultural Society]] (''The Garden'') and its columnist, "Tradescant". "Trad's Diary", now in its 44th year, appears online and in ''Hortus'' magazine. In 1979 he published ''The Principles of Gardening'' and in 2010 a new rewritten edition of ''Trees''. "Trad's Diary" has been anthologised three times, as ''Hugh Johnson on Gardening'' (1993), ''Hugh Johnson in the Garden'' (2009) and ''Sitting in the Shade
He was selected ''Decanter'' Man of the Year in 1995, and was promoted Officer in the French Order Nationale du Mérite in 2004 and Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in 2007 "for services to wine-making and horticulture". He was awarded the [[Veitch Memorial Medal]] of the Royal Horticultural Society in 2000.<ref name= WW/>
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* ''A Life Uncorked'' (2006, autobiography, anecdotes and opinions), republished with additions as 'My Life and Wines' Academie de Vin Library 2022).
* ''Hugh Johnson's Wine Guide 2012'', iPhone app (2010)
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