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Public Wine Shop, 179 st georges Road, Melbourne (2025)

04/01/2025

We're hiring!!

Happy New Year folks.

We're delighted to let you know that the team at Public is growing and we're currently seeking applications for an additional Front of House staff member on a part-time (soon to be full time) basis.

If you've had a few years working with organically farmed, artisanal wines in a busy bistro environment then we'd love to hear from you.

Please get in touch with a note of introduction and your CV to [email protected] and we look forward to hopefully meeting you soon.

Cheers from the team at Public and thanks as always to for the pic.

24/12/2024

We can hardly wait for this!!

Please join us on New Years Eve for a sweet little day party starring cheeseburgers, oysters, and a river of sparkling wine.

We'll be open from midday to 5pm and the fridges will be full of ripper bottles for you to take home for the evening.

Bookings are available from the website and we'll of course have space for walk-ins.

Thanks so much for a wonderful start to summer and our best wishes to you all for the holidays.

And a massive cheers as always to for the poster!

22/12/2024

A new dish of heirloom Yarra Valley tomatoes, shiso and tapenade, dressed with a nicely vibrant strawberry vinegar.

18/12/2024

We were very, very excited to receive a small order of the rare and now internationally sold out Springbank Local Barley Single Malt this week.

Made with barley from Glencraigs Farm in Campbelltown (just up the road from Springbank) this was distilled in 2011 and bottled in 2022.

Available for a short time to drink in house or take away.

Many thanks and

10/12/2024

NYE and Christmas hours at Public.

Hi folks!

The team at Public is delighted to announce that we'll once again be opening on New Years Eve from midday to 5pm.

This year, will be cooking verrry celebratory cheese burgers for the day and we'll of course be serving oysters and a full on ocean of sparkling wine.

The shop will be open for take aways as usual and we're really looking forward to sharing a glass with you and saying cheers.

Then, our hours over the holiday will be:

Mon 23/12 - open as usual from 4pm
Tues 24/12 - open for retail and wines by the glass 11am-5pm
Wed 25/12 - Mon 30/12 - closed
Tues 31/12 - open midday - 5pm
Wed 1/1 - Fri 3/1 - closed
Sat 4/1 - open as usual from midday

Cheers from us!

XX

Many thanks to for the pic.

06/12/2024

A choice little flatbread made with the wonderfully nutty spelt from , topped with wakame, straciatella, lightly pickled zucchini and Olasagasti anchovy.

Many thanks to .growers for the excellent zucchini.

29/11/2024

Triangoli filled to the brim with nettle, sugar snap peas and ricotta, served with brown butter and cashew cream.

27/11/2024

Three really exceptional new wines from James and Sophie at .

All from 2023, these are a suite of wonderfully vinified bottlings from three separate sites in McLaren Vale.

'Somewhere on Another Hill' is nicely textural and crystalline sauvignon - varietal and delicious.

'Lulu', 100% chenin blanc, has seen just enough oxygen to allow site and sinew to show, yet still with great mid palate volume.

And then 'Ralph's' is arguably our favourite ever red wine from James and Sophie. This is unirrigated grenache and the final wine is distinguished by its finesse and delicacy of structure and its sheer, striking purity.

We're very excited about these!
Many thanks

19/11/2024

A very loud cheers to the brilliant team at Public and to our very wonderful customers. It's just such a pleasure to be able to open the doors each day to such an amazing community.

Thank you and thanks so much

15/11/2024

Four really wonderful new wines from Anna and Kyatt at .

These are mix of home vineyard fruit in Mt Gambier and also biodynamic fruit from Cape Jaffa and are all thrilling in precision and expressiveness.

There's a couple of new styles for the domaine here - a phenolic semillon and a very, very high quality direct press and crystalline pinot gris.

Kyatt delivered these earlier today and straight in to the fridge they went!

Thanks as always

29/10/2024

We're really excited about this.

We tasted a tank sample of the 2024 Moon Marsanne back in August and are thrilled to let you know it's now in stock and will also be by the glass in the coming days.

From the highly regarded and certified Biodynamic Moon Vineyard on the banks of the Goulbourn River in Nagambie, this is simply an excellent Victorian white wine.

Full of rich phenolic matter and restrained, varietal fruit character, we're really very happy to offer a wine from from a Victorian vineyard farmed with so much intent that's been fully certified Biodynamic since 2012.

This is going to be a great, great delight over spring and summer and will also be a seriously good proposition for the cellar if you fancy popping a few bottles down.

A huge thanks to the lovely team at .

27/10/2024

House made spaghetti with a white ragu of wallaby tail and pancetta.

03/10/2024

HIRING

Hi folks. Public has a chef's position open for 30 - 38 hours per week.

If you've had a few years experience in a busy, bistro environment, have a wild love for organic food and wine and would like to be part of a small, close-knit team we'd love to hear from you.

Please send your CV and a letter of introduction to [email protected].

Cheers!

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26/09/2024

Hi friends.
Letting you know we'll be open tomorrow, Fri 27th for the public holiday from midday (should be a very charming afternoon) and then we'll be closed on Saturday the 28th.
We'll then be back in the saddle from midday on Sunday.
Thank you all for what have been a choice few months in Fitzroy North xx

Thanks to for the pic.

15/09/2024

A new dish to the menu this week of asparagus, walnut and burnt butter, very happily garnished with fenugreek leaves and calendula.

12/09/2024

TROY WHEELER COMES TO PUBLIC!!

Hi friends. Public has turned 3 this year so we're having a BBQ on Sunday 13/10 and one of the most loved people in our industry, Troy Wheeler (), is coming to cook.

Needing little introduction, Troy is a highly distinguished butcher, the co-owner of and a recently published author.

This is going to be an outrageous day. Troy will be setting up his custom built grill from and cooking over the coals in the courtyard so you can very readily expect dishes that we've never cooked before at Public.

If items like smoked lardo on toast, lampredotto, charcoal chicken and STEAK sound like a good time, bookings can be via the website or the link in the bio.

This will be an a la carte menu so you can really settle in and have seconds if you're in the mood.

We'll of course be pouring some very nice wine from magnum over the day and popping a few releases from the cellar in the fridge. It really is promising to be a great, great day for wine.

Records for the day will be selected by our long time collaborators Ari and Billy-Jean and team from Fitzroy's very fine who have contributed so much to Public over the last few years.

We're very, very excited about this - join us for will be an especially glorious Spring party.

Thanks as always to superstar for the artwork!

26/07/2024

We are delighted to have Anton Van Klopper of Lucy M. wines joining us not only as a producer this weekend at Force of Nature but as a teacher.

On Saturday Anton will host a talk entitled 8000 Years of Natural Wine accompanied by the above lineup of astounding wines.

The talk will document and draw interwoven cultural connections between the very origins of wine, agriculture, religion, culture, the past and the present.

“Natural wine as piece of cultural belief like the gods of sky and earth.”

Tickets are $30 and can be purchased along with your main ticket for admission.

13/07/2024

We're pretty obsessed with this very nourishing classic at the moment.

Puntarelle Alla Romana.

Thanks to .growers for the exquisite puntarelle.

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