Pour Diane in North Melbourne.
Pour Diane in North Melbourne.Joe Armao

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It’s a ’70s fever dream atthis northside newcomer, co-owned by wine importer and maker Andy Buchan. The house party vibes are bona fide and service is appropriately easy-breezy. Pick a lo-fi bottle from the wine wall and nuzzle in wherever there’s space:perhaps on the round tiger-print sofa bed,or at a cherry-red table for a game of Connect 4. You might even catch an episode ofBaywatch,beamed onto the wall.

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