2025 Chatto Bird Pinot Noir

96 pts
A delicate fine-boned Pinot Noir from the north of Tasmania by the master, Jim Chatto.

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Description

The 2025 Bird Pinot is the more delicate, qlighter-framed Pinot in the Chatto range. It comes from a high-performing old site up in Pipers River, planted back in the late ’90s by Andrew Pirie. Jim’s worked with this fruit for years now and really knows how to let it shine.

2025 was a dry, early vintage in Tassie (one of the earliest in some years), and it’s given this wine a little more weight than usual, while still keeping all the lift and finesse that Bird’s known for. It’s all about purity – red fruits, spice, fine structure. Wild fermented, matured in large old oak, and handled gently the whole way through, fruit purity is at a maximum here.

This is what Chatto calls his “gateway” Pinot - and sure, it’s the lightest in the lineup, but it’s still got plenty to say. Lovely to drink now, but no rush either.

96 points
" It's a gorgeous little thing. It's the lightest wine in the Chatto quiver, with a delicate fruit weight and sapid mineral cadence. To be honest, it's damn hard not to pour another glass immediately, and that's the name of the game."
- Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)

96 points - "A delightfully perfumed, red-fruited pinot noir (Clone 114) from Jim Chatto, with fruit sourced from the Bird vineyard in Pipers River. It's a shimmering, diaphanous little beauty; all filigree and space with delicate fruit tones of raspberry, red cherry, red plum and redcurrant. There are underlying hints of leaf litter, souk-like spice, dried shiitake, Chinese barbecue shop, pastis, meadow herbs and gentle nutty oak in the distance. It's a gorgeous little thing. It's the lightest wine in the Chatto quiver, with a delicate fruit weight and sapid mineral cadence. To be honest, it's damn hard not to pour another glass immediately, and that's the name of the game." - Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)

VARIETY
100% Pinot Noir (Clone 114 Pinot Noir)

VINEYARD
Planted by Tasmanian pioneer Dr. Andrew Pirie in 1998, Bird Vineyard is in the Pipers River region in the northeast of Tasmania. Thanks to the generosity of the team at Pipers Brook, we are lucky to get a lovely parcel of Clone 114 Pinot from the Bird Vineyard.

REGION
Pipers River.

TASTING NOTES
Red fruits with spice and floral aromatics. Bird is the most elegant and ethereal of our line-up. The ‘gateway Pinot’ as we fondly call it.

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Body Light Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country Australia
Region Tasmania
Australian State TAS
Reviewed By Halliday Wine Companion
Critic Score 96
Alcohol 14%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2025
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Chatto Wines

Jim Chatto is revered as one of the finest winemakers currently working in Australia.

His recent reinvigoration at Mount Pleasant in the Hunter Valley has received phenomenal critical acclaim, as has his personal Tasmanian project, Chatto wines.

After purchasing a plot of land that Jim describes as "right on the edge of viticultural possibility", planting began in 2007.

In only a short amount of time, this site has produced some extraordinary wines and looks set to become one of the Apple Isle most prized viticultural assets.

Modern winemaking master, Jim Chatto Chatto Wines

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