Loopholes Can Lead To Violent Encounters Late At Night

IF MELBURNIANS only read books as they sipped chardonnay in hole-in-the-wall bars, life would be much easier for Superintendent Stephen Leane.

Hard Graft, Easy Drinking

IT'S TAKEN Richard McIntyre close to 20 years but he's done it. Lopped the tops of his cabernet sauvignon vines and grafted pinot noir on to them instead. Bravo! Brave because, as he admits, "Persuading anyone that the Mornington Peninsula can produce a decent cabernet is hard work." Dr McIntyre's Moorooduc Estate has become synonymous with refined chardonnay and pinot noir (although the shiraz is mighty good too). When he and wife Jill planted vines in 1983, with no one else in the immediate ...

Play At Misty For Me

AS OUR barfly cousins in Coathanger City take to the streets, demanding their right to sit in a hole and drink chardonnay, Melbourne's bars are filled with a generation of drinkers who have never known (night) life without the bar-hopping option. And while the seemingly endless parade of new bars captures most of the noise and flurry, it is the places with a few miles on the clock that are the solid foundation of our local bar scene's success and reputation.