Description
Mulline is the creation of two Ben’s, Mullen and Hine who set out to showcase exciting single site expressions from the Geelong region with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir at the centre of this. Ben Mullen heads up the winemaking and prior to setting up Mulline cut his teeth at the likes of Domaine Dujac, Yarra Yering, Oakridge, Leeuwin Estate, Torbreck & Craggy Range before returning to deep dive into the diversity of Geelong’s terroir whilst at Clyde Park. Geelong geographically is a large GI and has a lot of diversity in both soil and climate, evident in Mulline’s single vineyard wines. From the ‘by the sea’ Portarlington vineyard east of the Geelong CBD exposed to Port Phillip Bay to the warmer clay dominant Sutherland Creek vineyard North West towards Ballarat.
“Such excellence never springs out of nowhere, and that’s certainly the case with Mulline. Clearly there are some fantastic vineyard resources in play here but the person who makes the wine – Ben Mullen – could not come more highly credentialed.” Campbell Mattinson, Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion
WINNER – Best Value Winery 2025 – Halliday’s Australiain Wine Companion
About this wine: 100% Chardonnay from Strathmore Vineyard, Sutherlands Creek, Moorabool Valley. Between Geelong and Ballarat, Moorabool Valley’s terroir was produced by volcanic activity and mediterranean climate. The warmest and driest of the subregions.
Clone P58 planted in 1998 on Grey and Brown loams with Fragmented Granite. The fruit was handpicked, cooled overnight and then whole bunch pressed directly to oak with full solids from two blocks on the same day. The wine was fermented in a cold room. 30% of the wine went through Malolactic Fermentation where as the rest was sulphured in place. 25% of the wine went to new French oak, with the remaining to older French barriques. The wine sat in oak with no movement for 8 months before being blended and bottled on the 4th November 2023. 13% alc.
From the winemaker: “This cuvee is more ‘traditional’ in the style of Geelong Chardonnay. Fruit profile very similar to other producers nearby. Bit more oak use, which helps tone down the fruit profile. P58 Clone which is all Nectarines and Melon Rind. The Chardonnays are made very reductively, so trying to keep them as fresh as possible, and not let them blow out to be too overdone. We get so much flavour already in the wines, so this is all about building texture, tension and complexity with acid/oak/lees”- Ben Mullen
97 points, Philip Rich, 2025 Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion “Barrel fermented with full solids and matured in 25% new French barriques and puncheons with only the new barrels going through mlf. Aromas of pure white peach, gentle vanillin from the well-handled oak, white flowers and flecks of flint and oyster shells. There’s a gentle creaminess on the elegant, persistent and nicely structured palate. It’s very, very good now, but no problems ageing this for another four to six years. Geelong chardonnay doesn’t get much better.”
95 points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front “This is another excellent chardonnay from Mulline. The power, the poise and the persistence are all A-class, the presence the perfect icing. Grapefruit, grilled peach, citrus and smoked cedarwood characters come laced with mineral, struck match and a preserved lemon note. It seduces as it soars. It will only get better over the next few years.”
RRP $64 Our Intro Price $54.99
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