2025 Mulline Sutherlands Creek Fume Blanc

96 pts
Sauvignon Blanc for Chardonnay drinkers, with older Moorabool Valley vines and barrel-fermentation giving serious substance beyond its fresh fruit.

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Mulline’s Sutherlands Creek Fumé Blanc is Sauvignon Blanc worth putting on the dinner table with your Chardonnay-drinking friends. Older vines and barrel fermentation give it the texture and substance to hold their attention.

The fruit comes from Strathmore Vineyard in Geelong’s Moorabool Valley, where the Sauvignon Blanc was planted in 1988. It spends a day on skins before natural fermentation with full solids, then eight months in barrel, including 30% new Austrian oak.

Stone fruit and passionfruit come with a little spice, the oak sitting comfortably behind the fruit. There’s richness through the middle, but it stays fresh and tightly structured, with a long, salty finish at just 12.5% alcohol.

Open it with roast chicken or fish in a buttery sauce. Single-vineyard Sauvignon with proper barrel-fermented texture and plenty of freshness, this is a good reminder of how brilliant this variety can be in the right hands.

96+ points
"The palate is energetic and, despite its mid-palate richness, this is tightly wound, finishing saline and long. Excellent."
- Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)

96+ points - "From a single vineyard in the Moorabool Valley. One day on skins and barrel fermented and matured in 30% new Austrian hogsheads. A bright, medium green gold. Aromatic with its bouquet of stone fruits, passionfruit pulp and a little spice. The oak has been swallowed up by the fruit. The palate is energetic and, despite its mid-palate richness, this is tightly wound, finishing saline and long. Excellent." - Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)

93+ points - "This is slightly more restrained, and possibly less intense, than the Modewarre version though its appeal and quality are in the same vicinity. It tastes of preserved lemon and stonefruit mostly with grass, gravel, smoke and cedar notes as inflections. There’s a brine-and-citrus-rind aspect to the finish, which makes it feel a bit tonic-like, as a genuine positive. This wine is composed, texture and energetic at once. I’d expect that this wine will be better again in another 12-18 months, and onwards." - Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

100% Sauvignon Blanc - Clone F4V6, Moorabool Valley, Geelong
Strathmore Vineyard, Muhlebach Road, Sutherlands Creek - Planted 1988
Grey and brown loams and clay loams, with Fragmented Granite
30% New Austrian Oak
Natural Ferment, Full Solids
8 months in Barrel
12.5% Alc.

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type White
Body Full Bodied
Variety Sauvignon Blanc
Country Australia
Region Geelong
Australian State VIC
Reviewed By Halliday Wine Companion
The Wine Front
Critic Score 96
Alcohol 12.5%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2025
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Mulline Wines

Established in 2018 Mulline Vintners is a double dose of Bens, specifically winemaker Ben Mullen and business brain and wine drinker Ben Hine. Mullen has experience from around the globe, and was most recently winemaker at Clyde Park.

They source fruit from around the Geelong area of Victoria with a focus on Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir, working with growers farming sustainably and organically. All steps of the winemaking operation are done with a major focus on looking after the environment.

Their first releases from the 2019 vintage were met with some acclaim - they are definitely young guns to watch out for.

To prevent embarrassment and to encourage rapping couplets... Mulline rhymes with “divine”.

Winemaker Ben Mullen - Geelong, VIC Mulline Wines

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