The world's best-selling wine writer is selling a Welsh forestry estate with complete with a historic gold mine. A price tag of £3.75m has been placed on the 500 acres of land near Barmouth.
Hugh Johnson is a Cambridge University graduate who has been writing about wine since the 1960s, and for decades has compiled his annual Pocket Wine Book, which sells millions of copies in 14 different languages. His family has owned Cae Gwian Forestry Estate at Bontddu for three decades, but now he as instructed agents Tustins to put it up for sale with offers invited in excess of £3,750,000.
The 83-year-old author has personally overseen the estate's development over the years, and it is rated one of the best medium-sized forest in Wales, and features a disused 19th-century gold and copper mine.
