2024 Mulline Pinot Noir
2024 Mulline Pinot Noir

2024 Mulline Pinot Noir

95 pts
Mulline |Geelong |Pinot Noir
Fresh and vibrant Pinot Noir from an up-and-coming Geelong star.
5.0
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
2 Reviews
Price:
$33.00
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Description

Ben Mullen has a way with Pinot Noir, and this is his most approachable expression at an unbeatable price. Sourced from four carefully chosen vineyards across Geelong, it’s a seamless showcase of the region’s energy and elegance - a Pinot bursting with bright fruit, spice, and sheer drinkability.

Since launching Mulline Vintners in 2018 with business partner Ben Hine, Mullen has been rewriting the script for Geelong wine. By working closely with top growers and keeping his operation small as essentially a one-man-winemaking-band, he’s producing some of the most exciting wines in Victoria today.

This Pinot Noir is a riot of aromatics - wild cherry, raspberry, and cranberry leap from the glass, laced with hints of white pepper, dried herbs, and subtle earthy spice from a judicious 20% whole-bunch fermentation. The palate is pure pleasure: silky, fresh, and alive with mouth-watering acidity. This is the best value Pinot that's come out of Ben's winery to date.

A Pinot that’s as serious as it is fun, the 2024 Mulline is best enjoyed slightly chilled, poured generously, and shared with good company. 

95 points
"Gosh this is an attractive wine... Fruit and florals are the drivers but then the extras are tucked within... There’s fabulous drinking to be had here."
- Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)

93 points
"The energetic palate is light to medium bodied with the wine's fine-grained tannins and bright acidity making for a delicious and refreshing mouthful. Good, nay, great now and over the next 3–4 years."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

95 points - "A four-vineyard, six-clone blend; 20% wholes bunches, 15% new oak. A bright crimson red. A lifted bouquet redolent of summer red fruits, poached rhubarb, rose bush and white pepper. The energetic palate is light to medium bodied with the wine's fine-grained tannins and bright acidity making for a delicious and refreshing mouthful. Good, nay, great now and over the next 3–4 years." - Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)

93 points - "Gosh this is an attractive wine. So many violets and indeed so redolent generally of a garden in bloom. Blue and red berried fruit flavours come melted with potpourri, sweet spice, leaf matter and twigs. Fruit and florals are the drivers but then the extras are tucked within. Mint and blood orange characters are here too, along with a decent crack of tannin. This is obviously meant to be consumed in its youth but even so, a quick double-decant does it a world of good. There’s fabulous drinking to be had here." - Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

Customer Reviews

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2 reviews
  • YL
    Yongkyu L.
    Verified Buyer
    3 months ago
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    2024 Mulline Pinot Noir
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    An Excellent Value Geelong Pinot

    With its silky texture, fresh profile, and bright cherry notes, this Pinot Noir is wonderfully drinkable and offers exceptional value.

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  • CE
    Carolyn E.
    Verified Buyer
    1 year ago
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    2023 Mulline Pinot Noir
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Wonderful Pinot

    Thoroughly enjoyed this at a restaurant, then sourced and purchased it online from Different Drop.

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100% Pinot Noir sourced from multiple sites and across all sub-regions of Geelong. 4 Vineyard sources make up the final blend. 60% Sutherlands Creek (Moorabool Valley), 25% Modewarre (Surf Coast), 11% Portarlington (Bellarine Peninsula) & 4% Indented Head (Bellarine Peninsula).

All blocks were treated/fermented separately in the winery before being put to old and new barriques and puncheons (15% new). The final blend is made up of 6 clones (MV6, Abel, 777, 114, 115 & D2V5). Average of 20% Whole bunch ferment. The wine was then blended and bottled the end of September 2024.

Price Bracket $31 to $40
Type Red
Body Light Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country Australia
Region Geelong
Australian State VIC
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Halliday Wine Companion
Critic Score 93
95
Alcohol 13%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2024
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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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