Free engraved sommelier's knife (valued at $50) with every order of 6+ bottles.

Dappled was founded in 2009 by a winemaker whose path began on a 1999 surf trip to California, picking up cellar work with an uncle on the Central Coast. After nearly two decades of work and study, the focus is hand-crafted, minimal-intervention wines from special Yarra Valley sites at realistic prices.

'Les Verges' is sourced from John and Josie D'Aloisio's vineyard high on the hill above Seville, on the rich red volcanic soils that part of the Yarra Valley is known for. The I10V1 clone vines were planted on their own roots in 1991. Whole bunches are lightly foot-crushed and given a long pressing, and the unsulphured juice goes straight to French barriques and puncheons (30% new) for a wild ferment. It spends 10 months on lees in oak without bâtonnage and a further five months in stainless steel, then is lightly filtered and bottled unfined by gravity.

A warm year on red soils makes the 2025 a powerhouse: struck match, peach, yellow nectarine and almond butter on the nose, then a dense palate of luscious stone fruit, toasty oak and buttery notes, finishing long with lemon and brine. Built to age.

Rich, flinty Yarra Chardonnay for roast chicken, crayfish or creamy pasta.