Mulline Vintners, established in 2018 by Ben Mullen and Ben Hine, is a modern Geelong producer and Halliday Best Value Winery of the Year. This single-vineyard wine comes from the Brown Magpie Vineyard at Modewarre, on the cool Surf Coast inland from Torquay - one of Mulline's coolest, most maritime sites, planted in the early 2000s to a mix of Pinot Noir clones on sandy loam over clay and limestone. The cool exposure gives perfumed, finely structured fruit with firm natural acidity. Halliday praised the 2025 for a gorgeous, complex and pure-fruited bouquet, describing dark plum, raspberry, rose bush and white pepper over dense, chewy tannins.

In keeping with Mulline's Modewarre releases, the clones were hand-picked and fermented in separate parcels with varying whole-bunch inclusion, using wild-yeast fermentations in open vats with twice-daily punch-downs and extended time on skins before pressing to French oak for natural malolactic fermentation and maturation with a portion of new barriques. The house style favours restraint and detail, letting the cool-site fruit lead, and the 2025 shows a concentrated, darkly fruited palate framed by dense, chewy tannins built for the cellar.