This Blue-Collar Wine Business Prints Money (No One's Talking About It)
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & MocToe Wine Co.
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Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Andrew Schultz, an Army veteran turned winemaker who spent over a decade farming some of Washington State's most elite vineyards before buying the one where his career first began.
Andrew gets into what actually makes a great wine (it starts in the field, not the cellar), why Washington is quietly producing some of the most underrated bottles in the world, and how he built a business that takes care of the people doing the real work.
From combat tours to owning some of the most sought-after land in American wine country, this is a story about what obsession and integrity build over time. This episode is proof that patience, integrity, and doing things right still wins.
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrewleeschultz/
Website: https://www.moctoewines.com
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| 0:00.0 | We're talking about mad scientist perfection type quality at the highest level. |
| 0:05.0 | I design from the end backwards, so it's like I know what I want or what I want to create, and I'll figure out how to get there. |
| 0:10.9 | This is like if you are a wine connoisseur and you want to taste the best possible grown, made, everything perfect. |
| 0:19.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:19.4 | This is it. |
| 0:20.1 | You're like Rain Man for grapes. |
| 0:21.8 | It's all structure to me. |
| 0:23.5 | One of the craziest things that I think happens in life in general is what I like to call. |
| 0:28.2 | We live backwards, right? |
| 0:30.0 | We live backwards because what it is, Brad Lee, back again with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio, folks. |
| 0:39.4 | I got a real treat. |
| 0:41.4 | Andrew Schultz in the house. |
| 0:43.2 | What's happening? |
| 0:44.2 | Hey, how you doing, Brad? |
| 0:45.3 | I am doing. |
| 0:46.2 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm pissed because we don't have wine glasses because I wanted to try this. |
| 0:52.4 | Folks, you guys are in for a real treat. |
| 0:55.3 | This dude's an entrepreneur and founder of Mocktoe Wine Company, |
| 0:59.3 | a former U.S. operations sergeant, disciplined with everything, including leadership, |
| 1:05.8 | and pretty much everything you build. |
| 1:07.8 | You're almost a an obsessed individual |
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