The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast

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  An Executive by 24 — and She Drinks Her Wine W/O Apology Pt. 1-6 01.10.2026 27Min.

  Victoria Pelletier was born to a drug-addicted teenage mother who beat her, and adopted at four by a secretary and a school janitor who had almost nothing except the conviction that their daughter was going somewhere. She was working the front desk of a hair salon at eleven. Managing adults twice her age at fourteen. Out of high school at sixteen, out of her parents' house that same semester, a homeowner at nineteen, and an executive at twenty-four with a three-month-old at home.
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  Know Your Buyer or Sell Expensive Fruit Juice — Karen Green Pt. 1 30.09.2026 5Min.

  Karen Green spent years as a retail buyer at Tesco and Boots before switching sides of the table — and she wrote the book on what she learned. In part one, she explains Buyerology, the double-decker bus moment that named it, and the glaring omission most winemakers make before a single bottle is sold.
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  3rd Bottle: The Wine Cooler Built for Wine, Not Beer Pt. 1-5 29.09.2026 28Min.

  Jeanine Lum spent twenty years in a career and had never manufactured anything in her life. Then she opened her car door in Paso Robles after a day of wine tasting and was hit with the smell of cooked alcohol — a bottle left behind overnight, its cork pushed clean out by the heat. A year later, on a winding road, a cardboard box holding roughly $1,400 worth of wine tipped over. That was the moment she stopped brushing it off and went looking for a solution.
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  There's No Wine Named After Her Yet. Napa, Fix This. Pt. 6 28.09.2026 4Min.

  The wrap-up round, and Victoria doesn't flinch at any of it. Forrest runs a true-or-false gauntlet — some of it real, some of it invented to see if she'll bite. She was an executive at twenty-four: true. She trained as a sommelier in Bordeaux: nowhere close. Her colleagues called her the Turnaround Queen: true, and when Forrest asks whether that means runway or corporate, she answers both, because she actually did walk a runway as a teenager. Then the turnarounds themselves. A global company whose board ordered thirty percent out of the business post-COVID, and Victoria engineering it alongside the CEO. And the one that brought her to the United States — a joint venture dissolving, a rebrand, an IPO, and six acquisitions inside eighteen months.
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  $300 Shared or $15 Alone? — A CEO Answers the Wine Questions Pt. 5 25.09.2026 5Min.

  The Napa trip wasn't an accident. Victoria built the itinerary herself, and she built it around wineries she and her husband already loved — which, as she admits, made it very easy to be talked into buying wine they were going to drink anyway. Fifteen years had passed since her last visit. The valley had changed. What she didn't expect was what she'd bring home from the unfamiliar column. A Viognier, a varietal she'd never really explored. Chardonnays, which she generally doesn't like, and tried anyway. She's a Sauvignon Blanc and Sancerre drinker with a real weakness for bold Cabs, and she came back with bottles that don't fit that description at all.
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  The Critic Who Finally Came Around | Jeanine Pt. 5 24.09.2026 6Min.

  The series finale turns into a quiz, with Forrest putting four multiple-choice questions to Jeanine Lum about her own product. Along the way she reveals the one thing that finally won over her harshest critic, and closes with discount codes for listeners.
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  She Designed It Around TSA Rules | Jeanine Pt. 4 22.09.2026 5Min.

  Jeanine Lum walks through what's actually available at 3rdbottle.com — the six-pack and 12-pack bags, the ice packs sold separately, and the condensation towel included with every bag. She then explains why she chose plain water over pre-filled gel packs, a decision driven by cost, chemical liability, and TSA regulations.
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  The Tuesday Wine vs. the I-Just-Closed-Something Bottle Pt. 4 21.09.2026 4Min.

  Here's where the wine walks in. She's a content junkie. Headphones on, one-and-a-half speed, always something playing — in the gym, in the car, working from home in Miami. She writes books she can get through in a day because her own attention span demands it, and she narrates them herself because that's how she consumes everything else. Then she mentions she just got back from Napa.
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  Can You Ace the CLINQ ZERO Pop Quiz? Find Out Now! 19.09.2026 6Min.

  We welcome Anto, the innovative founder of CLINQ ZERO, to take you through a thrilling pop quiz focused on non-alcoholic wine. With two rounds of questions, listeners are invited to test their knowledge about CLINQ ZERO origins, production process, and market strategies. Anto shares insights into his journey from a corporate engineer to a pioneer in the non-alcoholic wine industry. Discover the unique de-alcoholization process of CLINQ ZERO, the reactions he faced from friends and family, and his vision for the brand's future. Whether you're a wine enthusiast or just curious about non-alcoholic options, this episode has something for everyone!
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  The MBA Means Almost Nothing to Her. Here's What Does Pt. 3 18.09.2026 5Min.

  The double standards, named plainly. Victoria Pelletier opens Part 3 with a site manager in India who would speak to her male employee but not to her, the most senior person in the room — then walks through the vocabulary problem every woman in leadership knows, where the same trait gets called assertive in a man and something uglier in a woman. She's blunt about the motherhood judgment too: minimal maternity leave, back at work two weeks after giving birth, and her answer to anyone who questioned it.
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  You Missed the Mark on the Wine Industry — Jeanine vs. Hydro Flask Pt. 3 17.09.2026 7Min.

  Jeanine Lum explains the performance numbers behind the bags, including a 12-hour desert drive that kept wine chilled the whole way, and the collapsible design she had to abandon when an engineer told her it wouldn't hold temperature. She also recounts a conversation with Hydro Flask co-founder Travis Rosbach, who asked why she'd rebuilt the whole cooler instead of just selling the ice packs.
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  Graduated High School at 16, Bought a House at 19 - Victoria Pt. 2 16.09.2026 5Min.

  The pace only picks up. In Part 2, Victoria Pelletier traces the run from Calgary to the corner office — a scholarship she was talked into taking close to home, a high school diploma at sixteen, her own place by the first semester, and a house in her name at nineteen. Along the way she juggled up to three jobs while carrying a full course load, banking by day, a doctor's office in the afternoon, commercial and stage work on call.
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  They're About the Beers and the Bros — Why Wine Coolers Don't Work Pt. 2 15.09.2026 5Min.

  Jeanine Lum walks through the brutal middle stretch of product development — a year of failed molds, a manufacturer who redesigned without asking and billed her every time, and three patent attorneys before she found one who saw the vision. Then she explains the interlocking modular ice pack system that makes the design work.
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  Adopted at 4, Unstoppable by 14 - Victoria Pt. 1 14.09.2026 6Min.

  Before the wine, there's the woman. Victoria Pelletier — award-winning corporate executive, board director, #1 bestselling author of five books, and a TEDx speaker whose talk on healthy resilience has drawn roughly two million views — opens the series with the story almost nobody leads with.
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  Wine Mule Replacement: Jeanine Lum's Journey to Building 3rd Bottle Pt. 1 10.09.2026 7Min.

  Jeanine Lum, founder of 3rd Bottle, joins Forrest to share the surprisingly personal story behind her wine transport invention. After a cork popped from heat exposure in Paso Robles and a cardboard box of $1,400 worth of wine tipped over on a road trip, Jeanine realized there was no product on the market actually designed to protect wine in transit. Everything she tried, from cheap canvas totes to expensive hard-cased bags, did the same single job: carry the bottle without protecting what's inside it.
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  Applied for a "Warm Body" Job 1995. Now He Runs a World-Class Winery Pt. 1-9 09.09.2026 41Min.

  Justin Ennis, Senior Director of Winemaking at Joseph Phelps Freestone Vineyards, takes us back to 1995 — his very first harvest at Hartford Court. Born and raised in Sonoma County with wine always in his peripheral vision, it was a nudge from his stepfather that turned an 18-year-old's summer job into a lifelong calling. What hooked him wasn't the wine — it was the people from Portugal, France, and Australia working right beside him.
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  The Engineer Who Built CLINQ ZERO - Inside the Wine Industry Pt. 1-5 08.09.2026 24Min.

  Anto, founder of CLINQ ZERO, for a full conversation spanning his Sicilian upbringing in a family bakery, his path through aerospace engineering, Fiat, Tetra Pak, and ultimately the wine industry, to the moment he decided to build his own non-alcoholic wine brand. Anto explains the meaning behind the CLINQ ZERO name, the skepticism he faced from friends and family in Italy, and the dealcoholization process that sets the brand apart — premium wine, ambient-temperature processing, no artificial flavoring.
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  Winemaker on the Hot Seat: 10 Rapid-Fire Questions, Zero Hesitation Pt. 9 07.09.2026 4Min.

  For the grand finale, Forrest Kelly puts Justin Ennis, Senior Director of Winemaking at Joseph Phelps Freestone Vineyards, on the hot seat with rapid-fire questions about his own winery — and he barely blinks.
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  The Brand That Wants to Replace Your Soda- CLINQ ZERO Pt. 5 03.09.2026 6Min.

  In the closing part of this CLINQ ZERO conversation, Anto opens up about life as a founder — talking to strangers about the brand multiple times a day, what separates CLINQ ZERO's ingredient list from competitors who lean on sugar to mask flavor loss, and his five-year vision for the brand. That vision is specific: CLINQ ZERO as the go-to bottle for weddings and baby showers, and the sparkling red as the drink people reach for over soda or beer on pizza night.
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  Wine That Goes With Everything (According to the Man Who Makes It) Pt. 8 02.09.2026 6Min.

  Justin Ennis, Senior Director of Winemaking at Joseph Phelps Freestone Vineyards, tells Forrest why Pinot Noir has his whole heart — one of the most food-friendly, versatile wines on the planet, ageable yet delicious young. Then some big news: Freestone's single-vineyard wines have escaped the wine club. The Pastorale Pinot, Quarter Moon Pinot, and Pastorale Chardonnay are rolling into 11 national markets, from New York to Chicago to Miami — just 500 cases each.