About this podcast
The fun + frank podcast which helps you navigate the world of wine. Hosted by Australia's first female Master of Wine Meg Brodtmann, and self-titled Master of Sabrage Mel Gilcrist.
Episodes
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- Wine News: The Return Of Family Owned Wineries, Endeavour Agree To Transparent Labeling Rules and A Wine Heist In The Italian Countryside · 47 minSend us Fan Mail A lot can change in the wine world while you’re away, and coming back to the headlines can feel like whiplash. We’re unpacking the big Australian wine industry…
- From QR Codes to Ice in Rosé: Opinions from Sommelier and Wine Communicator Cyndal Petty · 37 min · Season 5Send us Fan Mail Wine can be the most welcoming drink on the table, and somehow we’ve also managed to make it intimidating. We’re joined by Western Australia’s Cyndal Petty, a…
- Champagne Problems: The Deepest Dive In Sparkling Wine! Part 2 · 43 minSend us Fan Mail We taste how time changes sparkling wine, comparing lees-aged cellar release bubbles with an older bottle-aged Blanc de Blancs that turns fruit into caramel…
- Champagne Problems: The Deepest Dive In Sparkling Wine! Part 1 · 51 minSend us Fan Mail Sparkling wine looks effortless in the glass, but the work behind it is anything but. With Meg away in Spain, we (Mel and Austin) crack on with a proper deep…
- Why Is the Wine Industry Losing Good People? Women in Wine on Careers, AI and the Future of Wine · 1 h 29 min · Season 5Send us Fan Mail Wine is a “sexy” industry right up until you see what the hours, expectations, and unspoken rules do to the people who make it. We’re joined by three powerhouse…
- Wine News: Changing Of The Guard In Australian Wine, Mac Forbes Administration, The Buyback Scheme We Have Been Waiting For and So Much MORE! · 40 minSend us Fan Mail A premium Yarra Valley name going into administration is not the headline anyone wanted, but it is the one we need to talk about. With Meg away, we jump into…
- Can A Wine Podcast Help You Pass WSET Level 2? · 31 minSend us Fan Mail Meg was meant to be on mic. She misread a message, didn’t show, and we made the only sensible choice: pour a glass and turn our producer Austin into today’s…
- Career Pivots & Passion Projects: How to Transition into the Wine World with Warwick Tiernan · 53 minSend us Fan Mail We catch up with our old mate Warwick Tiernan to unpack how a lifelong love of food, travel, and good chats at bottle shops turns into genuine wine confidence…
- Wine History: Wine & War · 22 minSend us Fan Mail We follow the trail of wine and war across the 20th century and it gets stranger, darker, and more human than most wine trivia ever admits. We talk through why…
- Wine News: Has The Australian Wine Industry Reached It's Breaking Point, New Members For The Australian Wine Board, Len Evans Tutorial Breakdown, and What's On In Wine PLUS MORE! · 34 minSend us Fan Mail Wine people love a good crisis chat, but what happens when the story gets so grim that customers start believing wine itself is the problem? We’re tackling that…
- Listener Questions! We Answer All Of Your Burning Questions · 32 minSend us Fan Mail Your DMs run the show this time, and the questions swing wildly between deeply practical wine advice and the kind of chaos you only get when you put three…
- Wine Education: We Blind Taste Spätlese Riesling · 47 minSend us Fan Mail We build a fast, practical way to remember German Riesling by region, then test it with a blind Spätlese flight that forces us to use Mel's... interesting study…
- Wine News: National Vintage Report 2026, European Heatwaves & Shifting Consumer Behaviours, Look at Gen Z Go · 30 minSend us Fan Mail The Australian vintage just shrank, but the story is not as simple as “less wine equals higher prices”. We unpack Wine Australia’s national vintage report, why…
- Wine News Goes Rogue: A Heated Debate About Whether Winemakers Matter To Brands Anymore · 30 minSend us Fan Mail A winemaker gets cut, a flagship winery gets prepped for sale, and suddenly we are not talking about tasting notes anymore. We dig into the Oakridge bombshell…
- Gamay Gets Technical: Unleash The Geek! · 40 minSend us Fan Mail Get your clipboard, lab coat and pen at the ready as Meg and Mel NERD OUT on this episode about Gamay. We go deep on Gamay and Beaujolais, from Nouveau history…
- The $25 Australian Shiraz That Beat The World · 32 minSend us Fan Mail A $25 McLaren Vale Shiraz wins Best Shiraz in the world, so we put Beresford to the test with side-by-side pours and zero patience for hype. We chase what makes…
- Wine news: who won the world wine awards, disease resistant vines, mental health in wine, bulk wines update, and is there a silver lining in all this? · 36 minSend us Fan Mail We stack up the week’s wine news with a mix of hard numbers and genuine bright spots, from rock-bottom bulk prices to a more diverse global awards landscape. We…
- Does Price Matter? The Ultimate Langhe Nebbiolo Blind Taste Test · 27 minSend us Fan Mail We test a bold theory about Langhe Nebbiolo by blind tasting four bottles across wildly different price points. The surprise isn’t just which wine wins, but how…
- Pinot Gris v Pinot Grigio: The Blind Taste Test · 42 minSend us Fan Mail We taste Pinot Gris versus Pinot Grigio blind and find the difference is real when we focus on structure instead of label hype. We also share the tricks we use…
- Sweet Red Wines... WHY?! · 23 minSend us Fan Mail Sweet red wine keeps flying off shelves, so we taste what people actually buy and try to work out what’s driving the demand. We get blunt about confected…
