Daylesford

A Vincent Street store built around natural-fibre womenswear and a dark, romantic aesthetic, headlined by Magnolia Pearl and running through Ichi Antiquités, Italian handmade shoes from Victoria Varrasso, Cire Trudon candles, niche fragrance and Aesop. On Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Daylesford, with a sister store, Around the Corner, a few doors away stocking antiques, art and home goods.

In Daylesford, a town well used to good food and slow living, this cellar-and-deli operates as the kind of place you drop into for a single bottle and leave with three. The range leans toward growers rather than brands — pet nats and orange wines sit alongside Victorian pinot noir, French gamay and nebbiolo, with the odd deep-cellar special release (a Ganevat, a rare amaro) turning up for those who look closely. It's a list built by people who clearly taste before they buy, favouring character and provenance over label recognition, and happy to talk you through why a chenin blanc from one corner of the state tastes nothing like another. The deli side matters too: platters made for taking away, built to pair with whatever's chilling in the fridge or resting in the racks. There's a companion outpost now on the Great Ocean Road, but the Daylesford shop remains the anchor — a place shaped by the rhythms of a food-and-wine town, where regulars come back for the reliable stuff and newcomers get steered toward something they hadn't thought to try. Bookings suggest tastings or events happen on-site, reinforcing the sense of a shop that wants you lingering, not just transacting.