Wine with Meg + Mel
Wine with Meg + Mel
Mel Gilcrist, Meg Brodtmann
Australian Icons Part 2
36 minutes Posted Dec 12, 2025 at 5:00 am.
Welcome And Why Icons Matter
Best’s Bin 0 Shiraz 2021
Tannin Ripeness And Continental Climates
Thompson Family Shiraz 2020
Pre‑Phylloxera Vines And Cellaring
Margaret River Cabernet And Blends
Tannin Styles: Yarra Vs Margaret River
Penfolds Grange: Story And Price
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Send us Fan Mail We taste through Australian icons and ask what truly makes a wine “great”: site, story, structure, or time. From Great Western’s mineral Shiraz to Margaret River’s silky Cabernet, Grange’s legend and Noble One’s golden botrytis, we weigh value, ageability and joy. • Best’s Bin 0 Shiraz 2021 as elegant, dark-fruited Great Western benchmark • Continental climate, phenolic ripeness and stony granitic tannins • Thompson Family Shiraz 2020 from 1868 pre-phylloxera vines • Why cel...