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{{short description|British author and expert on wine (born 1939)}}
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'''Hugh Eric Allan Johnson''' [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]<ref name=deca07>{{cite web|last= Lechmere |first= Adam, ''Decanter.com'' |title= Hugh Johnson honoured with OBE |url= http://www.decanter.com/news/105229.html |date= 8 January 2007 }}</ref> (born 10 March 1939, in [[London]]) is a British author and expert on wine. He is considered the world's best-selling wine writer.<ref name=ind-hj>{{cite news|last= Sale |first=Jonathan, ''The Independent'' |title= Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Hugh Johnson, the world's bestselling wine author|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/student/career-planning/getting-job/passedfailed-an-education-in-the-life-of-hugh-johnson-the-worlds-bestselling-wine-author-770724.html |date= 17 January 2008 }}</ref><ref name=OCW-hj>winepros.com.au. {{cite web|last= Oxford Companion to Wine|title= Johnson, Hugh|url= http://www.winepros.com.au/jsp/cda/reference/oxford_entry.jsp?entry_id=1632|url-status= dead|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080726122930/http://www.winepros.com.au/jsp/cda/reference/oxford_entry.jsp?entry_id=1632|archivedate= 26 July 2008|df= dmy-all}}</ref> A wine he tasted in 1964, a 1540 ''Steinwein'' from the [[German (wine)|German]] vineyard [[Würzburger Stein]], is considered one of the oldest to have ever been tasted.<ref name="Miscellany">G. Harding ''"A Wine Miscellany"'' pg 22, Clarkson Potter Publishing, New York 2005 {{ISBN|0307346358}}</ref><ref name="Johnson">H. Johnson. ''Vintage: The Story of Wine'', pg 284, Simon and Schuster 1989. {{ISBN|0-671-68702-6}}</ref>▼
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| birth_name = Hugh Eric Allan Johnson
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| occupation = Writer
| subject = Wine, Gardening
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▲'''Hugh Eric Allan Johnson'''
He is also a keen gardener, who has written books and columns on gardening for many years.
==Early life==
He was born the son of Guy F. Johnson CBE and Grace Kittel, educated at [[Rugby School]] and read [[English studies|English]] at [[King's College, Cambridge]].<ref name= WW>{{cite book |title=The International Who's Who 2004 |first=
==Career==
Johnson became a member of the [[Cambridge University Wine Society|Cambridge University Wine and Food Society]] while an undergraduate in the 1950s.
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Johnson has been writing about wine since 1960, was taken on as a feature writer for [[Condé Nast Publications]] upon graduation,
He has published a wide array of books, starting with the publication of ''Wine'' in 1966. ''[[The World Atlas of Wine]]'' (1971) was considered the first serious attempt to map the world's wine regions, described by the director of the [[Institut National des Appellations d'Origine|INAO]] as "a major event in wine literature".
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
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/>
Johnson is known as one of the wine world's most vocal opponents to awarding numerical scores to wine.
==Selected publications==
* ''Wine'' (1966)
* ''[[The World Atlas of Wine]]'' (1971,
* ''Trees – A Lifetime's Journey through Forests, Woods and Gardens'' (2010)
* ''Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book'' (1977, since published annually)
* ''The Principles of Gardening'' (1979), Mitchell Beazley Publishers (UK)/Simon & Schuster, Inc. (US)
* ''Hugh Johnson's Wine Companion'' (1983, six editions)
* ''The Story of Wine'' (1989), and illustrated re-edition (2004), Mitchell Beazley/Octopus, London, UK, 2020 edition, Academie du Vin Library, London, UK
* ''The Art and Science of Wine'' (1992, co-authored with [[James Halliday (wine)|James Halliday]])
* ''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)
* ''Sitting in the Shade'' (A third anthology of Trad's Diary, 2021)
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