Olinda Cellars

Up the Mount Dandenong Tourist Road from Olinda village, this cellar has spent more than two decades building relationships with small producers across the Dandenong Ranges and beyond. The shelves lean toward growers rather than big labels: craft beer, sake and cider sit alongside more than 300 wines, with a particular pull toward the Yarra Valley just down the hill. Staff run tastings every Friday and put together dinners and private events, treating the shop as a meeting point for the district's food and wine crowd as much as a place to grab a bottle on the way home. It's the kind of shop that knows what's fermenting two valleys over before the wine lists do. Open daily, with local delivery through the Ranges. For visitors touring the hills between Olinda and the Yarra Valley, it's a reliable stop for something made nearby rather than trucked in.