Mike Veseth is professor emeritus of international political economy at the University of Puget Sound. He is editor of the award-winning blog The Wine Economist and author of several books on the business and pleasure of wine, including Extreme Wine; Money, Taste, and Wine; and Around the World in Eighty Wines, which received the 2018 Gourmand International award for "Best U.S. Book in Wine and Spirits Tourism" and is included on BookAuthority.com's lists of the "Best Wine Books of All Time" and "Best Wine Audiobooks of All Time." He currently lives in Tacoma, WA.