Richard Carleton Hacker is an internationally recognized authority on wines, spirits, cigars, and related luxury lifestyles, and is a contributing writer for magazines that include Robb Report, Playboy, Smoke and The Quarterly Review of Wines. He has authored eleven books in the U.S., Great Britain and Germany, is a lifetime member of the Keeper of the Quaich, the Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne, and was knighted in Germany.