2025 Pinot Noir

The 2025 season delivered high quality fruit with average yields, following a warm spring, excellent flowering conditions and a dry, even ripening period leading into an early March harvest.

Fruit was hand picked over several days from different sub-regions and all parcels were kept separate throughout vinification. Fermentations took place in open fermenters, with varying proportions of whole bunches (around 15%), and gentle punchdowns or pumpovers over 7 to 10 days on skins to extract fine tannin and perfume without excess weight.

Post-fermentation, the wines were pressed and transferred to oak for maturation, with approximately 10% new oak used. The final blend brings together six Pinot Noir clones (MV6, Abel, 777, 114, 115 and D2V5), adding complexity and nuance to the finished wine. Bottled in November 2025.

About Mulline

Mulline Vintners is a collaboration between 2 Bens focused on producing premium wines from the Geelong Region, Victoria, Australia. Collectively, Ben Mullen + Ben Hine are Mulline Vintners. Ben Mullen is the Winemaker at Mulline Vintners.

Ben Mullen is a qualified winemaker and viticulturist. Ben grew up just east of the Barossa Valley region in South Australia. After graduating from secondary school, Ben enrolled in business and marketing at Uni. Concurrently, Ben began working in the wine industry at cellar doors in the Barossa. He promptly decided that wine was much more fun than marketing and enrolled in a Bachelor of Viticulture and Oenology at Adelaide University.

Since then, Ben has had a whirlwind career which has seen him making wine all over the globe. Of note, Ben has worked at Torbreck (Barossa Valley, South Australia), Yarra Yering (Yarra Valley, Victoria), Oakridge (Yarra Valley, Victoria), Domaine Dujac (Burgundy, France), Craggy Range (Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand) and Clyde Park (Bannockburn, Geelong, Victoria).

With this stellar background, it was a matter of time before Ben Mullen decided to spread his wings and make wine under his own label.