One of Melbourne’s favourite wine bars, Milton, has unveiled a new look and menu in celebration of its 10th anniversary.

While the front bar retains its original charm and iconic wall of wine, the Milton now offers an expanded, elevated courtyard dining experience with a new open kitchen and a wood-fired oven and an intimate private dining room. Plus, Milton’s 400-strong bottle list now features an extensive reserve list made up of rare and interesting back vintage cellar finds

To celebrate its 10 years, across the weekend of 2-4 August the bar will pay homage to the vintage that started it all – 2014.

The 2014 takeover will showcase the vintage through an extensive by-the-glass offering, top 2014 drops from the Milton cellar and the opportunity for people to BYO 2014 bottles without corkage.

Milton venue manager Harrison Young said: “We’re throwing a party going all weekend long to celebrate how far we have come and all the people that made Milton great along the way. We can’t wait to crack open some cracking bottles from 2014 and toast 10 great years so far – and years of good times to come.”

The new menu, overseen by group executive chef Charley Snadden-Wilson (ex-Etta, Embla, Town Mouse) and executed by head chef Tane Flanagan (ex-Matilda Bay Brewery, Capitano)  offers a range of pizzas and wine-friendly snack-heavy plates cooked in the wood-fired oven.

Highlights include Skull Island prawns with garlic butter and woodfired flatbread; smoked leeks with hazelnut and ricotta; and smoked kingfish with green olive and pepper. 

Director Lyndon Kubis said: “We opened Milton Wine Shop as an answer to the frustration we felt in not being able to drink the wines of the producers we loved and admired so very much without travelling to Fitzroy.  

“Melbourne’s south and eastern suburbs are  now awash with wine bars and restaurants selling wines from innovative, independent producers but 10 years ago this wasn’t the case. 

“We opened with hope and optimism and to our great surprise the people loved it.”

A decade of Milton

Since 2014 at the bar … 

• More than 121,000 bottles of wine have been opened 
• Almost 730,000 wines by the glass have been poured
• 322 winemaker events, masterclasses and tastings have been held
• More than 5200 long necks of Melbourne Bitter 1er Cru (aka Chateau Abbotsford) have been cracked

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