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. Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book is an annual bestseller and he has recently released a book on another great passion, Trees.
For the past thirty-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.
