Chatto Bird Pinot Noir 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Chatto Bird Pinot Noir 2025.

Chatto Bird Pinot Noir 2025
AU$70, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Tasmania.

I’d call the 2025 Chatto releases a watershed moment for the label except that Chatto has been churning out the hits for years. Needless to say: the 2025 Chatto releases are on fire.

This is a single vineyard pinot noir from Pipers River.

This is firm and fine and impeccably well structured – and extended – and yet the fruit and flavour profile is delicious. This latter point is true in the added context that this wine is essentially or majorly savoury. Undergrowth, bright cherries, smoked meat, elaborate/fragrant herbs, drifts of sweet wood and floral, foresty sprays. It’s light, fragrant, aromatic, pretty, sinewy and savoury at once. It’s a champion of a wine. 95 points – Campbell Mattinson.

See also [Chatto Mattinson 10-Star Winery]

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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