Moved from Mildura

A former wine taster from Mildura and her partner have left their regional Victorian home to start up a printing business on the Peninsula.

Brooke McCleary worked as a wine taster and customer service representative at Hardy's Wines in Mildura but left it all in June this year to move to Umina to open a printing business.

Ms McCleary and partner, Ben Carmichael, have opened Coastal Print, a printing business specialising in small business printing needs.

"Our focus is we come to you," Ms McCleary said.

The business prints business cards, letterheads, invoice books, leaflets and envelopes.

Ms McCleary said they were hoping to generate a lot of business on the Peninsula and said their service bridged the gap of printers between Ettalong and Woy Woy, being based at Umina.

"We've had quite a bit of interest so far."

"We can organise logos and help a lot of small business."

She said that for her partner Ben, a printer with 14 years experience, it was a move back to Umina as he was originally from the area.

"It's so beautiful here," she said.

"The people are friendly and it has the most scenic views.

"There's lots of hills around which is so different to Mildura, which is flat."

Ms McCleary said her former job as a wine taster was a good job, but she didn't get to drink as much wine as people might think.

"It was a customer service based role, but you did get to test it to see if it was all right.

"It is warmer here than Mildura, but Mildura was not too bad really.

"It used to get quite hot in summer."

Alison Branley, August 3