Hugh Johnson
After forty years of writing about wine, Hugh Johnson is still one of the world’s best-known and most respected authorities on the subject.
He describes his ‘Damascus’ moment as having come while a student at Cambridge University, where he began to develop his lifelong appreciation of the subject.
Johnson’s remarkable gift for making the most complex aspects of the wine world readable, with wit, humour and intelligence, has led to a remarkable sequence of books. His first, Wine, was published in 1966 and became a bestseller. Forty years on, the annual Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and in 2007 the masterful World Atlas of Wine, co-authored with Jancis Robinson, will be published in its sixth edition.
For the past twenty-seven years Johnson has been President of The Sunday Times Wine Club, and he is a past president of the Circle of Wine Writers. Jonhson also has a passionate interest in gardening, particularly trees, and has written widely on the subject.
