The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast

Forrest Kelly
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The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast delivers quick wine education for busy wine lovers. Host Forrest Kelly interviews sommeliers, winemakers, chefs, and wine experts sharing practical wine tips, wine pairing advice, wine tasting notes, and insider secrets from Napa Valley to Bordeaux. Voted one of The Best Wine, Food and Travel Podcasts!

  1. 6h ago

    Can You Ace the CLINQ ZERO Pop Quiz? Find Out Now!

    WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:- The inspiration behind the name CLINQ ZERO- Anto's previous corporate experience- How CLINQ ZERO differs from traditional wines- The business model of non-alcoholic wine- Future plans for CLINQ ZERO varieties TIMESTAMPS:[00:00] Welcome and Introduction[00:06] Overview of CLINQ ZERO and Anto's Background[00:30] Round 1: The Making of CLINQ ZERO Begins[04:00] Round 2: The Business of CLINQ ZERO Starts[06:12] Closing Remarks and Where to Find CLINQ ZERO @thebestwinepod Discover More from The Best 5 Minute Podcast Network: Wine Podcast Music Podcast Travel Podcast Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Can You Ace the CLINQ ZERO Pop Quiz? Find Out Now!

  2. 1d ago

    The MBA Means Almost Nothing to Her. Here's What Does Pt. 3

    India, twenty-some years ago: the site manager who addressed her male employee instead of her Aggressive versus assertive — and the word that gets used on women Guilt aimed at driven mothers; Canada's six-month, now one-year, maternity leave Working the day she gave birth to her second child; back at the desk after two weeks "Well, ask a man" Being the only woman in the room, routinely Forrest on golf, the email he never got, and what exclusion feels like from the inside "I drive a mean golf cart and I buy drinks incredibly well" Finding other avenues to build relationships Hiring for real-life experience over polish; MBAs rank low on her list The seven-out-of-ten rule, and the coaching that fills the gap Agility, growth mindset, good humans, good fit #Unstoppable and #NoExcuses — the philosophy in two tags The books: Unstoppable (co-authored, opening chapter), a personal branding book, The Power of Whole Human Leadership, a leadership transitions book, and the new Influence Activated LinkedIn ranked her the #1 social seller worldwide during her IBM years Forrest's promise to the audience: the wine is coming @thebestwinepod Discover More from The Best 5 Minute Podcast Network: Wine Podcast Music Podcast Travel Podcast Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    The MBA Means Almost Nothing to Her. Here's What Does Pt. 3

  3. 2d ago

    You Missed the Mark on the Wine Industry — Jeanine vs. Hydro Flask Pt. 3

    This part is where the numbers come out. Jeanine wanted twelve to fifteen hours of chill, driven by a specific need: she and her husband keep a second home in Albuquerque, the drive runs through desert heat, and she favors black vehicles, which is one more thing working against the wine in the back. What the finished product actually delivers exceeded her target — the twelve-pack holds for twenty-four hours and beyond, and she's tested it under a truck cover, deliberately engineering a heat trap, across the full twelve-hour run from Orange County to Albuquerque. The six-pack is the short-trip version: picnics, concerts, a day at the beach, six to eight hours as long as you keep it zipped. She also talks about what she had to let go. She wanted a collapsible bag for boats and RVs, and the engineering wouldn't support it — the design couldn't hold temperature. That's the moment, she says, where her stubbornness had to give way to someone who actually knew better. Then there's everyone else. Once word gets out that you're building something, people arrive with suggestions, and Jeanine's response to the two-pack and three-pack crowd is that she's already thought it through — the ice pack system doesn't earn its keep at that size, and plenty of simple bags already exist for a dinner out. Her real problem was never dinner. It was tasting rooms: buying six or nine or twelve bottles, then facing the next winery with nowhere to put them. Her husband wouldn't carry them in and wouldn't leave them in the car. What she needed, as she puts it, was a wine mule. He quit. The centerpiece is her conversation with Travis Rosbach, co-founder of Hydro Flask, who asked her the obvious business question: why rebuild the entire cooler instead of just selling the ice packs? Her answer is the thesis of the whole product. The cooler companies built for beer, and wine bottles are taller. Loose ice chills unevenly and can overchill a bottle, and soaking labels means losing them — which matters not only for knowing what you're drinking but for the artist whose work is on the bottle. Rosbach laughed and conceded the point @thebestwinepod Discover More from The Best 5 Minute Podcast Network: Wine Podcast Music Podcast Travel Podcast Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    You Missed the Mark on the Wine Industry — Jeanine vs. Hydro Flask Pt. 3

  4. 3d ago

    Graduated High School at 16, Bought a House at 19 - Victoria Pt. 2

    The Canadian tell — "out and about" Growing up in Calgary; talked into the University of Calgary at sixteen despite offers elsewhere Scholarship in hand, room and board free, and moving out anyway that first semester Relocated to Toronto straight out of university, later to the US One, two, sometimes three jobs at a time through school: banking, a doctor's office, acting and commercial work Four or five hours of sleep at twenty — and what sleep looks like now Her son's objection: "but then you have no social life" The tuition bargain — maintain the GPA or repay the semester C-suite, decoded: chief executive officer, chief operating officer, and the functions that reported to her Recruited at twenty-four as COO and general manager, three months into new motherhood Everything but finance in her remit, in a lean outsourcing P&L where mistakes cost money Confidence read as competence — "rightfully or wrongfully so" Just over forty M&A and divestiture transactions across the career Twenty-six years in B2B professional services: outsourcing, consulting, technology @thebestwinepod Discover More from The Best 5 Minute Podcast Network: Wine Podcast Music Podcast Travel Podcast Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Graduated High School at 16, Bought a House at 19 - Victoria Pt. 2

  5. 4d ago

    They're About the Beers and the Bros — Why Wine Coolers Don't Work Pt. 2

    Every product story has a stretch in the middle that nobody puts in the marketing copy, and this is Jeanine Lum's. Her first project manager had never had a drink in his life, which made explaining the value of what she was trying to protect a losing battle from the start. He took her concept, produced designs that failed, then redesigned and remolded without consulting her — and charged her for a new mold every single time. A year and several molds later, she was ready to quit. What she says next is the part that stops you. Twenty years in law enforcement, and she had never cried as much as she did during that first year of design work. She found a second manufacturer, and the difference was immediate: they didn't charge for redesigns, and their engineers apologized for not having reached her solutions first. Three mold revisions, billed once. Running alongside all of it was a patent process that went nearly as badly — the first attorney turned her away claiming a conflict of interest so fast she's certain he never opened her email, the second loved the product but couldn't hold to deadlines, and the third, who also doesn't drink, turned out to be the one who saw it. She now holds a design patent, a utility patent, and two registered trademarks. Then Forrest asks the question that gets to the heart of it, and Jeanine explains the interlocking ice pack system — a modular grid that freezes flat enough to fit an RV freezer, then slides together inside the bag, with pieces you can remove and reposition to make room for food and charcuterie. She designed it that way because she and her husband have lived with small refrigerators on a boat and in an RV, and because the coolers already on the market weren't built with wine in mind at all. Most of them, as she puts it, aren't even tall enough. @thebestwinepod Discover More from The Best 5 Minute Podcast Network: Wine Podcast Music Podcast Travel Podcast Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    They're About the Beers and the Bros — Why Wine Coolers Don't Work Pt. 2

  6. 5d ago

    Adopted at 4, Unstoppable by 14 - Victoria Pt. 1

    Getting the name right, first thing — P-E-L-L-E-T-I-E-R  Only child, gifted kid, self-described loner: the bike as an instrument of exploration  Streetlights as the only curfew, and what kids lose without that  People-watching from a bicycle seat, and inventing stories about strangers — a habit that never left her  First job at eleven: booking appointments, running cash, sweeping floors, laundering towels  Babysitting at $2 an hour  Assistant manager at fourteen, coaching adults decades older  "Turtle shell outside, marshmallow inside — somewhere between don't mess with me and do you want a hug"  Why the all-business mask came first, and why vulnerability came later  Adopted at four out of a violent early childhood  "Tori, you need to do better than us" — and the crucial distinction between better than where I came from and better than any person  No money for the high school graduation trip  Book five arrives September 16 @thebestwinepod Discover More from The Best 5 Minute Podcast Network: Wine Podcast Music Podcast Travel Podcast Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Adopted at 4, Unstoppable by 14 - Victoria Pt. 1

  7. Sep 10

    Wine Mule Replacement: Jeanine Lum's Journey to Building 3rd Bottle Pt. 1

    Jeanine Lum never set out to become an inventor. A W2 employee with no manufacturing background, she stumbled into her business idea the hard way, through a series of wine mishaps that most collectors will wince at. A bottle left in a car in Paso Robles pushed its own cork out from heat. A year later, a cardboard box holding roughly $1,400 worth of wine tipped over on a winding road trip. Those two moments sent her looking for a real solution, and she quickly discovered that nothing on the market actually protected the wine itself, only the bottle. What follows is a candid look at the long road from idea to finished product. Jeanine talks about working with a project manager who had never had a drop of wine in his life and struggled to understand what she was trying to protect, the costly cycle of redesigned molds, and the patent attorneys who came and went before she found the right partner. She eventually landed on an interlocking, modular ice pack system inspired by an ice pack she received in a box of chocolates, built specifically to accommodate the height of wine bottles, something she says most coolers on the market completely ignore. Forrest and Jeanine also dig into the practical side of the product, from the six-pack and twelve-pack ice systems and how long each holds its chill, to the zipper lube that keeps the airtight seal easy to manage, to why she intentionally avoided pre-filled gel packs in favor of simple water. Along the way, she shares a great story about a conversation with Hydro Flask's Travis Rosbach, who admitted his industry had missed the mark entirely on wine drinkers. It's a fun, honest conversation about persistence, unexpected mentors, and building something from a problem nobody else thought to solve. @thebestwinepod Discover More from The Best 5 Minute Podcast Network: Wine Podcast Music Podcast Travel Podcast Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Wine Mule Replacement: Jeanine Lum's Journey to Building 3rd Bottle Pt. 1

  8. Sep 9

    Applied for a "Warm Body" Job 1995. Now He Runs a World-Class Winery Pt. 1-9

    Justin Ennis, Senior Director of Winemaking for Joseph Phelps Vineyards in Sonoma County, responsible for the Sonoma Coast wines under the Freestone brand — a role he's held for 20 years. Justin shares how he grew up surrounded by vineyards, with a wine-loving grandfather on one side and a family vineyard in Healdsburg's Russian River on the other, yet never considered wine a career until his stepfather (then at Kendall-Jackson's Hartford Court) suggested harvest intern work. His first vintage was 1995 under winemaker Dan Goldfield, doing the unglamorous cellar-rat work: power washing, punch downs, barrel cleaning. The revelation? Working alongside interns from Portugal, France, and Australia through the CAEP agricultural exchange visa program — and realizing winemaking could be his passport to the wider world. @thebestwinepod Discover More from The Best 5 Minute Podcast Network: Wine Podcast Music Podcast Travel Podcast Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Applied for a "Warm Body" Job 1995. Now He Runs a World-Class Winery Pt. 1-9
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The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast delivers quick wine education for busy wine lovers. Host Forrest Kelly interviews sommeliers, winemakers, chefs, and wine experts sharing practical wine tips, wine pairing advice, wine tasting notes, and insider secrets from Napa Valley to Bordeaux. Voted one of The Best Wine, Food and Travel Podcasts!

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