What Starting A Wine Business At 40 Taught Me | Andrew Azzopardi

Champions Connect Podcast · Oct 30, 2025 · 54m

What did starting a wine business at 40 teach him about patience, margins and what the rich really buy?

Andrew Azzopardi is the founder of Vintage '82, a Malta fine wine importer that supplies superyachts, after a career in catering, event management and building new businesses for Maltese companies.

Andrew's first memories of wine are summer Sundays in his father's garage, the kids and the women chosen to jump on the grapes. At junior college he did maths and physics and thought he wanted architecture, until he read his first book on it. He went into catering instead, and was told he had…