What Makes a Place? Mac Forbes on Wine, Identity, and the Yarra Valley.

Send us Fan MailFor Mac Forbes, wine has never been just about what’s in the glass.It’s about identity. Place. Curiosity. And the willingness to choose the harder path in pursuit of something meaningful.Over the past two decades, Mac has built one of Australia’s most respected wine businesses by questioning convention—from dry farming and single vineyards to a philosophy centred on understanding the Yarra Valley on its own terms.In this conversation, we explore the challenges facing Australian wine today, the lessons Mac has drawn from family, Indigenous perspectives on land, and why emotion plays such a powerful role in the wines we make and the bottles we choose.More than anything, this is a conversation about purpose, resilience, and leaving something better for the next generation.Support the show