How to Handle a Wine with Hugh Johnson

Hugh John How to Handle a Wine

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Decanter.com is re-releasing - exclusively - Hugh Johnson's superb 1984 series HOW TO HANDLE A WINE.

Now live: Episode 1 – How to open a wine bottle, corks and corkscrews

Now live: Episode 2 – How to extract a broken cork

Now live: Episode 3 – How to open a Champagne bottle

Now live: Episode 4 – How to choose a good wine glass

Now live: Episode 5 – How to store wine

Now live: Episode 6 – How to tell the age of wine

Now live: Episode 7 – How to decant wine

Now live: Episode 8 – How to use Port tongs

Now live: Episode 9 – How to serve wine at the right temperature

Now live: Episode 10 – How to choose wine at a restaurant

The series has been fully updated with an introduction by a modern-day Hugh, and starts exclusively on Decanter.com on 6 December, with Episode One. Episodes 2-10 will be released every weekday until 17 December.

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Written by John Abbott

John Abbott is a digital executive based in Durham, UK. He was editor at Decanter from 2011 to 2015, during which time he helped to launch its sister website, DecanterChina.com. He left to found his own company, the former digital agency Tiger Creative. Since 2018 he has held the position of CEO at international technology start-up, Globeflow.