Wine with Meg + Mel
Wine with Meg + Mel
Mel Gilcrist, Meg Brodtmann
Wine News: Winemakers under pressure, Trump's... "interference" in Iran and its influence on the wine industry, and the passing of a wine icon
25 minutes Posted Apr 8, 2026 at 7:00 pm.
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Welcome And News Rundown
Masters Of Wine Symposium Scholarships
Controlled Burns And Smoke Risk
Fuel Prices And Wine Shipping Costs
Redundancies And Industry Restructuring
Remembering Michel Rolland’s Influence
Queensland Wine Tease And Sign Off
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Send us Fan Mail We move through the week’s biggest wine headlines, from career-building opportunities in Adelaide to the very real stress of smoke over vineyards during harvest. We also unpack rising fuel costs, what redundancies signal about the market, and why Michel Rolland’s legacy still shapes how wine tastes today. • Scholarships for under-35s to attend the International Masters of Wine Symposium in Adelaide in April 2027 • Why the MW symposium matters for contemporary issues, tasti...