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Melbourne – wine-bar central

Monday 30 December 2024 • 1 min read
Carlton Wine Room

A guide to drinking (and eating) well in the capital of Victoria (image © Carlton Wine Room).

Melbourne has more wine bars per capita than any other city in the world. Okay, so I don’t know whether this is true – but it feels like it might be. To demonstrate, let me take you on a bar crawl near my house.

A couple of years ago I moved from leafy suburbia right into the heart of the city, on the border of West Melbourne and North Melbourne, near the huge, bustling central Queen Victoria Market on a corner of the...

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