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.

'Fin de la Terre' comes from the Peirce family vineyard at Steels Creek, at the base of the Kinglake range: a warm site of mudstone and shale over granite, with own-rooted vines planted in 1990. The fruit goes into the fermenter as 100% whole bunches for a natural carbonic start, is foot-stomped weekly for a further five weeks, then pressed to a very old puncheon on full lees and left until the following May. Bottled by hand via gravity, unfined and unfiltered.

The warm 2025 vintage brought deep colour and concentration while keeping the fine Syrah line: lifted dark berries, almost boysenberry, with red liquorice and a hint of herbs and toast, then a concentrated, round palate with silky tannins.

Silky, whole-bunch Yarra Syrah for slow-roast lamb, duck or mushroom dishes.