Wine with Meg + Mel
Wine with Meg + Mel
Mel Gilcrist, Meg Brodtmann
Listener Questions! We Answer All Of Your Burning Questions
31 minutes Posted Aug 12, 2026 at 7:00 pm.
Welcome And Listener Questions
Moving To Chile With No Plan
Learning Spanish The Hard Way
Women In Wine And Chilean Work Culture
Why Career Plans Aren’t Everything
How We Met And Why We Clicked
Why The Podcast Started In COVID
Does Bottle Size Change Ageing?
How Austin Joined The Team
A Wine For A Toxic Speech
Travel Wines For The Balkans
What Reduction Really Means
Planning A Live Show With Tastings
Sparkling Blends We Should Teach
Baumé And Brix Without The Fuss
Container Deposit Scheme And Wine Bottles
Why Sabrage Still Rules
Final Wrap And Goodbye
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Send 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 opinionated people in front of microphones. We start with the story so many of you asked for: Meg’s time in Chile, including what it’s like moving countries on a one-way ticket, learning Spanish in the cellar, and working outside the big-city wine scene. It turns into a bigger chat about wine careers, humility, and why “mak...