Description
- 2024 Mulline Sutherlands Creek Chardonnay
- 2024 Mulline Portarlington Chardonnay
- 2024 Mulline Modewarre Pinot Noir
- 2024 Mulline Sutherlands Creek Pinot Noir
- 2024 Mulline Portarlington Pinot Noir
- 2024 Mulline Drysdale Pinot Noir
2024 Mulline Sutherlands Creek Chardonnay
From the warm, sun-drenched Strathmore vineyard in Sutherlands Creek, this is Mulline’s most full-bodied Chardonnay - though that doesn’t mean it lacks finesse. The P58 clone, planted here in 1998, has a reputation for producing refined, linear styles, and in 2024, it’s delivered a wine that’s all about balance: generosity with precision, creaminess with crunch.
Winemaker Ben Mullen picked the fruit from two blocks on the same day, whole-bunch pressed it straight to oak with full solids, and let it speak for itself. About a third went through malo to build texture, while a quarter spent time in new oak for a touch of seasoning. No overworking here, just a beautifully judged Chardonnay.
Expect layers of white peach and grilled citrus with a gentle almond meal warmth. There’s a touch of flint, a nice thread of acidity, and a plushness that makes it incredibly moreish. Serious value for this quality of site and craft.
97 points
"A complex amalgam of white nectarine, crushed rocks, gentle vanillin and pressed flowers. Textured, saline and beautifully balanced. Now firmly one of the region's very best chardonnays and a wine that will provide lots of pleasure now and over the next five to seven years."
- Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)
95+ points
"There’s texture and flavour here but it’s the drive through the finish that really elevates the pulse. This chardonnay really does power on. It’s a complex wine with flint, popcorn, roasted nut and grilled peach flavours running into sweet spice, smoky bacon and meal. It announces itself straight up, and then keeps on going through the finish. Top stuff. Excellent wine."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)
2024 Mulline Portarlington Chardonnay
This is coastal Geelong Chardonnay at its most refined. The fruit comes from Nurringa Park, a breezy vineyard just a stone’s throw from the shores of Port Phillip Bay. With sandy loam, clay and limestone soils underfoot, and cool ocean influence above, it’s a site tailor-made for tension and purity.
In 2024, Ben Mullen and Ben Hine have delivered a wine that’s all class. It was whole-bunch pressed to French oak, just 20% new, then left to do its thing. No overworking, just a gentle, hands-off ferment on full solids, with a touch of malo to bring texture into the frame.
What you get in the glass is a citrus-charged, white-fruited expression with a chalky, mineral edge and beautiful drive. It’s sleek, composed and impossibly easy to drink. A quiet overachiever, this is arguably the best Chardonnay yet out of the Mulline cellar.
97 points
"The best Port Arlington Chardonnay I've tasted. Aromas of perfectly ripened stone fruits, orange blossom and a touch of sea spray precede the chalky, nicely concentrated and very well-balanced palate. A delight to consume now and over the next three to five years plus."
- Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)
96 points
"This is an absolute belter. Straight to the pool room with this one. It’s saline, driven by white peach, neatly tucked with oak and then exceptionally focussed and sustained through the finish. From all angles this wine is a definite yes. We’re onto something pretty special here. Don’t hesitate."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)
2024 Mulline Modewarre Pinot Noir
Modewarre is Mulline’s coolest site, and it shows. The Brown Magpie Vineyard sits just 20 clicks inland from the surf coast, on a mix of sandy loam, estuary marl and limestone, ideal soils for Pinot with elegance and energy.
Ben Mullen handled each clone separately (MV6, 777, 114, 115), playing with whole bunches across the ferments before landing on an assertive 80% inclusion in the final blend. It's a wine that’s fragrant, textural and utterly captivating.
There’s lift and spice from the stems, but it’s the interplay of red berries, briny minerals and fine-grained tannin that carries this wine. Oak use is dialled in (25% new), adding subtle polish to an otherwise expressive, finely etched Pinot Noir.
This is the most savoury and coastal of the Mulline reds, with loads of detail and drinkability.
97 points
"A bright, deep crimson. Ultra perfumed and lifted with its bouquet of brambly red fruits, rose bush and warm spices. Medium bodied, this is both sumptuous and beautifully delineated on the very long, classically structured palate. Absolutely tops from beginning to end and a wine destined to age effortlessly over the next decade or longer."
- Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)
2024 Mulline Sutherlands Creek Pinot Noir
Sourced from the Strathmore Vineyard in Sutherlands Creek, this is Mulline’s warmer, more structured Pinot built from MV6 and Abel clones grown on granite-laced loams. It’s a site that lends the wine depth and drive, but there’s no shortage of finesse here either.
Ben Mullen plays the whole bunch card with restraint, just 20% in the final blend, allowing the fruit’s earthy spice and deep florals to shine. The wine is dark-fruited and grounded, with notes of black cherry, clove, and crushed herbs. The palate is savoury, detailed and quietly powerful, with tannins that are firm but well woven.
Oak is perfectly in check (30% new), giving just enough lift to frame the wine’s complexity without taking centre stage. It’s a confident, composed Pinot that balances structure and freshness with real class.
Another smart single-site release from Mulline: pure, poised, and expertly put together by one of Victoria's brightest rising talents.
96 points
"Elegant and restrained with aromas of red cherry, rose petals and spices such as Sichuan pepper and star anise together with a little new-oak pencil-shaving scents. The palate is similarly elegant and fine boned and I like the way this keeps building as it sits in the glass. The tannins are superfine and persistent. The most reticent, perhaps, of the five single-vineyard wines but a wine that will no doubt age superbly."
- Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)
2024 Mulline Portarlington Pinot Noir
This is the first Portarlington Pinot fully under Mulline’s vineyard management, and the debut is an absolute belter - this might be our pick of the best of the brilliant 2024 Mulline Pinot Noirs.
Sourced from the Nurringa Park Vineyard out on the Bellarine Peninsula, this MV6 clone fruit sits just a kilometre from the sea, grown on sandy loam, dark clay and limestone. It’s a maritime site and the influence is clear here in this is a fine-boned, taut and perfumed expression, more about detail than weight.
30% whole bunches give the wine a lifted spice and gentle grip, and there’s an effortless flow across the palate, with red cherry, pomegranate and wild herb complexity. A touch of new oak frames the fruit without intrusion.
It’s a beautiful addition to the Mulline single-vineyard line-up and quite seriously one of our favourite Pinot Noirs we've tasted so far this year.
96 points
"A single vineyard located right on the water in Port Arlington. All '98-planted MV6 clones; 30% whole bunches, 25% new oak. A deep ruby red. Concentrated with dark fruits, earth, licorice root and a little iodine. Similarly rich on the flavoursome, still closed, but even and well-structured palate that finishes with a burst of robust, meaty tannins. It'll need some time but, rest assured, your patience will be rewarded."
- Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)
2024 Mulline Drysdale Pinot Noir
A tiny two-barrel parcel of MV6 Pinot Noir from the Leech Vineyard on the Bellarine Peninsula, this is a quietly spoken gem from Mulline’s 2024 single-site line-up.
Drysdale’s cool, coastal influence gives this wine its fine-boned structure and vibrant acidity, while the clone brings depth, spice and a lovely gentle grip. It’s a wine that dances between red fruit brightness and savoury complexity and is downright delicious from the get-go.
Think wild strawberry, rhubarb, and a touch of autumnal spice. There’s a lovely sour cherry tang and a faint herbal note threading through the finish.
Elegant, subtle, and full of character, this is Mulline Pinot in its most restrained and poised expression. Only two barrels made so as always, blink and you’ll miss it.
96 points
"From the Leech vineyard planted in '98. MV6 clone, fully destemmed and 15% new wood. A deep, bright crimson purple. Brooding with aromas of morello cherry, black plums and some rose bush and hedgerow scents, despite there being no whole bunches! The palate is ripe, balanced and with velvety tannins that make this the readiest to drink of the five (all superb) single-vineyard pinots from '24."
- Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)
95 points
"Complexity, depth and finish. This pinot noir is a genuine contender. Undergrowth, boysenberry, dark cherries and beetroot juice, with earth, spice and woodsmoke notes as depth players. There’s an extra twig-like snap to the tannin and a general impression that there’s a lot going on under the bonnet. Seriously impressed by this."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)
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