Producer Mulline Vintners is a collaboration between Ben Mullen, a qualified viticulturist and winemaker, and Ben Hine, a lawyer and the business mind behind the project. Together, the two Bens set out to produce high-quality wines made with fruit grown throughout the surrounding Geelong region, Moorabool Valley, Surf Coast, and Bellarine Peninsula. They purchase fruit from like-minded growers and have their own home vineyard and winery in Portarlington.A breath of fresh air for the Geelong region, Mulline is a young, passionate, forward-thinking collaboration injecting new life and energy into the Geelong wine scene and collecting a lot of critical praise along the way. Tasting Note From Leech vineyard on the Bellarine Peninsula in Drysdale, planted 1998. Aromas of cherry, fresh floral notes and some red currant and cranberry. Light, elegant and fruit-forward with a savoury, earthy edge. eThere's ample flesh on the bones of this Pinot Noir. It's still in watercolour mode, but the flavours swirl and spread, and the finish is in the territory of the emphatic. Talc, potpourri, mint, boysenberry and the juice of red cherries, the latter strained through a bunch of almost-dry twigs. Yes it's savoury but the emphasis is more on florals; complex florals. All of these characters are then gathered up by tannin, not unlike a stream or a canal going through an open gate; there's a squeeze put on, but the flow continues and, indeed, in perception at least, seems to accelerate. This is a fine Pinot Noir.' – Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front 94 Points
