Melbourne – wine-bar central

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...