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316:'s influence on the world of wine, which has in his view moved winemaking in many regions towards a more uniform, bigger and richer style. In 2005 Johnson stated, "Imperial hegemony lives in Washington and the dictator of taste in Baltimore".
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President of the Sunday Times Wine Club, part of Laithwaites, now the world's largest mail-order wine merchant. From 1986 to 2001 he was a Director of the Bordeaux First Growth
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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
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