Nina Caplan

Club Oenologique contributor

Nina Caplan is the Lifestyle and Travel columnist for Club Oenologique online and wine columnist for The New Statesman and The Times’s Luxx magazine. Her first book, The Wandering Vine: Wine, The Romans and Me, came out in 2018 and won several awards; she’s trying to stay in one place long enough to write a second one.

Six of the best wine bars in Melbourne

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Melbourne is one of the world's shining lights when it comes to wine bars, says Nina Caplan, as she recommends the best examples in and around the city's CBD

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Six of the best wine bars in Melbourne

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