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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,<ref name=OCW-hj/> and started work on ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' and ''[[House & Garden (magazine)|House & Garden]] '', becoming in 1962 editor of ''Wine & Food'' and in the same year wine correspondent of ''The Sunday Times'', of which in 1967 he became Travel Editor. From 1968 to 1970 he edited ''Queen'' magazine in succession to [[Jocelyn Stevens]].<ref name=wd-hj>{{cite web|last= Kissack |first= Chris, thewinedoctor.com |url= http://www.thewinedoctor.com/otherresources/johnson.shtml |title= Wine Books: Hugh Johnson }}</ref>
He has published a wide array of books, starting with the publication of ''Wine'' in 1966. The publication of ''[[The World Atlas of Wine]]'' in 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".<ref name=OCW-hj/>
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 1986–2001 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.
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