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==Career==
Johnson became a member of the [[Cambridge University]] Wine Society|Cambridge University Wine and Food Society]] while an undergraduate at [[King's College, Cambridge]] in the 1950s, reading [[English studies|English]].<ref name=OCW-hj/> On describing his introduction to wine-tasting Johnson has recalled:
{{quote|my room-mate Adrian Cowell, committee member of the [[Cambridge University Wine Society|University Wine & Food Society]] came in after dinner with two glasses and said, "Come on, Hugh, are they the same? Or different?" Both were, I am sure, red Burgundy, but one was magic and one was ordinary. This caught my imagination. It was my [[Conversion of Paul|Damascene moment]].<ref name=ind-hj/><ref name="cam">{{cite news |title = University library plans new expansion |work = Cam |publisher = [[University of Cambridge]] Development Office |pages = 45–46 |date = No 47, Lent Term 2006 |accessdate = }}</ref>}}
 
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>