Wine with Meg + Mel
Wine with Meg + Mel
Mel Gilcrist, Meg Brodtmann
Can you taste where a Pinot comes from? We put Mornington, Yarra Valley and Tasmanian Pinot Noir to the test to see if regional differences really are perceptible.
23 minutes Posted Oct 9, 2025 at 10:00 pm.
Back in Studio, Quick Recap
Last Week’s Ratings Deep-Dive
Today’s Mission: Regional Pinot
Teaser: Next Week’s Sub-Regions
Fun Fact: WHO Alcohol Guidance
Am I A Wine Wanker? BYO Glass
Listener Tasting Group Shout-Out
Setup: Three Handpicked Pinots
What To Expect by Region
Tasmania GI vs Sub-Regions
Cool Climate, Hang Time, Style
Tasting Tasmania: Ethereal Elegance
Price Context and Site-Driven Winemaking
Tasting Mornington: Plush and Red-Fruited
Tasting Yarra: Structure and Sour Cherry
Quality, Preference, and Food Pairings
Group Buying, Value, and Takeaways
Wrap: Regionality Proven, Sub-Regionality Next
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Send us Fan Mail Think all Pinot Noir is just “light red”? Three glasses say otherwise. We set up a controlled taste test with Handpicked’s single-vineyard Pinot from Tasmania, Mornington Peninsula, and the Yarra Valley to hear terroir speak without the noise of wildly different winemaking. The result is a crisp, side-by-side sensory map of Australian Pinot: an elegant, hibiscus-and-cranberry whisper from Tassie; a plush, red-cherry surge with velvet tannins from Mornington; and a taut, sour-...