Wine with Meg + Mel
Wine with Meg + Mel
Mel Gilcrist, Meg Brodtmann
Wine News: Endeavour Sells Wineries As The Aussie Wine Industry Hits A New Normal
45 minutes Posted Jun 3, 2026 at 7:00 pm.
Welcome And Last Week’s Debrief
Coravin Dinner And Château Rayas
Setting Up The Wine News
Endeavour Offloads Winery Assets
Federal Budget And Wine Abandonment
Napa Water Limits And Dry Farming
Handpicked And The Romance Of Wine
Next Week’s Pinot Gris Blind Test
Sign Off And Drink Well
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Send us Fan Mail We jump from rare Grenache by the glass to the bleak reality of industry restructuring, and ask what keeps wine alive when the money and the politics turn cold. Along the way, we dig into Endeavour’s winery sell-off, a federal budget that leaves wine behind, and the real vineyard trade-offs behind water use and dry farming. It's not all doom and gloom as Producer Austin spent the week discovering what "wellies" are and we thank Handpicked for bringing a bit of wine romance ...