The Story of Wine — Hugh

📚 The Story of Wine Hugh Johnson

Author: Hugh Johnson

Publication Date/Edition: First published 1989; this edition reprinted 1996

Publisher: Mitchell Beazley, an imprint of Reed Consumer Books Limited, London (also Auckland, Melbourne, Singapore, and Toronto)

Format: Softcover, fully illustrated with maps and graphics throughout

ISBN: 1 85732 997 X

Page count: Full-length illustrated history (later hardcover editions run to 480 pages)

Condition: Clean, sound copy

🔍 Synopsis

A fully illustrated cultural and historical survey of wine, tracing its origins from ancient Greece and Rome through to the modern era. Johnson explores how the great wine-producing regions and traditions grew out of the customs and history of their individual countries, with anecdotal detours into subjects like the invention of the wine bottle and how Champagne houses survived the bombardments of the First World War. The book was deliberately titled a "story" rather than a "history," favouring readable narrative and anecdote over dense technical detail.

Notable

Written by Hugh Johnson, one of the most influential wine writers of the 20th century, author of The World Atlas of Wine and the long-running Pocket Wine Book annual, and an OBE recipient for services to the wine trade

Praised on release by Jancis Robinson MW as the first comprehensive historical survey of its kind from a major wine writer

This 1996 reprint of the original 1989 Mitchell Beazley edition later editions (1998, 2004) were retitled and reissued as Vintage: The Story of Wine and The Story of Wine in hardcover.

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