How to Drink Like a Billionaire: Mastering Wine with Joie de Vivre
Regan Arts, 2016

Excerpt: “Keenly appreciative of how easy it is to lose it all, the billionaires I know tend to focus their energies on the preservation of their wealth.

“So in my experience, the superrich are surprisingly careful when ordering wine in restaurants—all too aware of how difficult it is to find value there. They cultivate relationships with good merchants. They understand how to cut through sales patter and gain satisfying returns on their liquid assets. They uncover what insiders are drinking. And many billionaires are unafraid to circumvent the pretentious and geekiness that still surrounds so much of wine.

“As I sipped on a glass of cut-price D.P. from Costco, my mission crystallized like a Swarovski necklace: I would teach everyone how to drink like a billionaire. No, this is not something that necessitates spending like an incautious oligarch. In many instances, it is quite the opposite. Drinking like a billionaire means imbibing like someone completely in control, like someone fully in the know or a mere text message away from it.

“And so we have this book. In it, you will learn to approach wine like a shrewd member of the 1 percent.”

Praise: “How to Drink Like a Billionaire is not just the best guide for drinking wine stylishly, but Mark Oldman offers his readers a comprehensive yet fun approach to one of our favorite topics. It’s colorful, charismatic and innovative from beginning to end!”
—Marcus Samuelsson, celebrity chef and restaurateur

“Mark Oldman’s How to Drink Like a Billionaire brilliantly demystifies wine like no book has before, teaching us all to drink passionately, drink smart, and drink with utter confidence. With all his usual ease and wit, he has written a guide to wine (and life) for OUR generation. And we will all drink better for it!”
—Gail Simmons, food critic, TV host, and author of Talking With My Mouth Full