Andrew Kay (ILF2014)
The Australian Wine Industry has an IQ of Bin 389. Dropping to Bin 65 for certain sections of the Wine Acronym Industry. For direction and leadership, we need all the brains we can get. That’s why it’s sad that Wirra Wirra CEO Andrew Kay is leaving after 15 years in charge. He’s the new boss of Business SA. This is a blow for wine. It’s like someone has launched a watermelon from a trebuchet and knocked out a pillar of the wine community. Andrew will now be wearing an expensive suit on Channel 7 a lot and having long lunches and stuff. He was at the same long lunch we went to at Adelaide Oval in September 2006 after we pressed the button on the first issue of TWTW and literally ran out the back door anticipating a backlash. I was too nervous to eat the rubber chicken.