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Wine bars often get a bad name, but if you want to get the best bottles in Dubai they’re your best bet by far. This is especially true at Oeno, which has a fantastic selection or grapes, from vintage champagnes to outstanding sweet sauternes. There are two private rooms, one for wine tasting and one for sampling cheese, and the latter’s menu is wonderfully well-stocked.

Cheese and wine are surprisingly difficult to match well, but the sommeliers here will set you straight, and with additional tasting elements (from quince to honey truffle oil) it’s the best place to eat some of the finest cheese in the city – and possibly the whole of the Middle East. The wine measures sometime seem a little on the small side, but this isn’t the kind of place where you just down cheap plonk. Along with a jazz-tastic live band, this is one bar to savour.

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