The Wined Up

About The Wined Up

Podcast | Editorial | Storytelling 𝗪𝗲 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸. 𝗪𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻. 𝗪𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 Stories behind the people, food and wine.

Publisher

The Wined Up

Category

arts · leisure · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 May 2023

Latest episode

3 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

159 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Oct 2026

   How good is Australian Pinot Noir?

   Send us Fan Mail Ten glasses, one blind tasting, and a question that's been quietly dividing Australian wine for years: are we still trying to make Burgundy, or have we finally found our own voice with Pinot Noir? On this episode of The Wined Up Podcast, Trent sits down with returning guest Marc Malouf of iHeartWine for a genuine celebration of Pinot Noir, not a ranking exercise. They kick off with a round of Pinot specific icebreakers, including the 2012 Comte Georges de Vogüé Musigny that M...

2. 

   19 Sept 2026

   Stepping Out of One of Australia's Greatest Wine Cellars

   Send us Fan Mail Mark Dietz grew up with over 30,000 bottles of wine around him. The question this conversation keeps circling back to is a simple one: how do you step out of a cellar like that and go build something entirely your own? Dietz is the co-owner of Small Island Wines, a boutique, cool-climate Tasmanian producer he runs with his business partner James Broinowski, focused on Riesling, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. But his path there wasn't a straight line. He started out chasing ...

3. 

   5 Sept 2026

   Mark Best – To Infinity and beyond!

   Send us Fan Mail Mark Best doesn't care what people say about him. He never really has. And oddly, that's the throughline of one of the most layered conversations we've recorded for The Wined Up Podcast. Best built his reputation the hard way at Marque, seventeen years of three-hat, top-50 cooking that, by his own account, took more than it gave back. He talks candidly about closing those doors in 2016 by the skin of his teeth, about losing a hat and losing financial viability in the sa...

Who has been a guest on The Wined Up

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Duncan Forsyth
• Guillaume Brahimi
• Franck Moreau
• Brett Butcher
• Nic Bowen

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

390,256

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

51

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

60

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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