Andrew was born in Cambridge UK on the 3rd December 1959. He is married to wife Bobby and they have three children Alex, Toby and Dominic.

Andrews great, great, great grandfather, John Reynell, established South Australias first vineyard in 1838 just two years after the foundation of the colony. The Reynell clone of cabernet sauvignon, now extensively planted in Coonawarra, is said to derive originally from Chateau Lafite, via the James Busby collection and William Macarthur at Camden.

He graduated from Roseworthy in winemaking in 1884. In 1988 he received the NSW Auctioneers Practice Certificate and in 1993 he received his Master of Wine from the Institute of Masters of Wine, London. In 1993 Andrew received the prestigious Madame Bollinger Medal for Excellence in wine tasting, in 2010 he won OIV award for A Taste of the World of Wine and in 2011 he won the Australian Communicator of the Year Award. Andrew is a former Chair of the Institute of Master of Wine (Australasia) and a member of the Australian Wine Industries Wine Australias Directions to 2025 Task force.

Andrew Caillard MW is the Fine Wine Principal of Langtons, Australias leading wine auction house. He is best known as a specialist fine wine auctioneer and editor of the highly influential Langtons Classification of Australian Wine. As a co-founder of Langtons he pioneered the Australian secondary wine market.

Andrews observations and interpretations of the Australian wine investment and ultra-fine wine market are renowned. He is a columnist and tasting panellist for Australias leading wine publication Gourmet Traveller Wine Magazine. He also writes freelance for several international publications and is the author of four editions of Penfolds Rewards of Patience and co-author of A Taste of Wine.

Andrew Caillard travels extensively across the world of fine wine as a buyer, wine writer, wine show judge and charity auctioneer and is an inaugural tutor of the influential Wine Australia Tutorial and a member of its advisory committee.

Andrew first visited the Barossa while as a student at Roseworthy and he has a long standing relationship with the Barossa through his writing, auctioneering and painting activities. His relatives, the Reynell family, also owned vineyards near Lyndoch during the inter war period. In 2008 Bobby and Andrew began making their own wine from Barossa grapes called Caillard Mataro.