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

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

More about Campbell Mattinson

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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