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Wine expert Andrew Caillard MW has been a key figure in shaping Australia's fine wine agenda for over 25 years.
Andrew is a wine marketing graduate of Roseworthy Agricultural College in South Australia and he passed the Master of Wine examination in 1993.
He founded Langton's, Australia's leading wine auction house, which was acquired by Woolworths in 2009.
Since then, Andrew has worked with Pinnacle Drinks, a division of Endeavour Drinks Australia – the Woolworths subsidiary behind retailers such as Dan Murphy's and BWS – as Fine Wine Principal.
This year, Andrew published a new book called ‘Imagining Coonawarra’, which tells the story of how Wynns founder John Riddoch pioneered the Coonawarra wine region.
I could go on about Andrew's highly decorated career. But today, he's here to talk about the debut of two Australian wines – Wynns John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon and Jim Barry The Armagh Shiraz – on the prestigious international wine marketplace, La Place de Bordeaux.
I started by asking Andrew why this milestone is so important for Australian wine.
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