2025 Chatto Killara Farm Pinot Noir

95 pts
A more broody and muscular style of Tassie Pinot from the Coal River Valley, care of winemaking legend Jim Chatto.

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There’s no mistaking Jim Chatto’s deft touch in this brooding, muscular expression of Coal River Valley Pinot Noir. Killara Farm is grown by Gill Christian and Todd Goebel at their Brinktop Road vineyard in Penna, a site that clearly has Jim excited.

In true Chatto style, this is Pinot that balances strength with nuance. It’s a blend of three clones: MV6 bringing the spice and herbal lift, D2V4 (Pommard) offering dark muscle and depth, and D5V12 adding ripe red fruit. The resulting wine has layers for days - savoury, detailed, and packed with Coal River generosity.

The palate is full and grounded, loads of tannin and spice. A few years in the cellar is something we'd highly recommend for the 2025 release in particular.

95 points
"Wonderfully pure and expressive with sleek and harmonious fruit, uber-fine, powdery tannins and a pitch-perfect mineral cadence"
- Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points - "Pinot noir from the Killara Farm vineyard, grown by Gill Christian and Todd Goebel in the Coal River Valley. Mid-ruby in the glass with beautifully defined red plum and cherry fruits over hints of souk-like spice, citrus blossom and meadow flowers, a tendril of struck flint, kicked leaf litter, charcuterie, dried shiitake and some distant cranberry. Wonderfully pure and expressive with sleek and harmonious fruit, uber-fine, powdery tannins and a pitch-perfect mineral cadence, with a long draw of flavour as the wine fans out on the exit." - Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)

VARIETY
100% Pinot Noir. A blend of three Pinot clones: MV6 (1/3), D2V4 (1/3), and D5V12.

VINEYARD
Lovingly grown by Gill Christian and Todd Goebel at their Brinktop Rd vineyard at Penna in the beautiful Coal River Valley.

REGION
Coal River Valley.

TASTING NOTES
The D2V4 (Pommard) provides the muscular structure, the MV6 the spice, tension and dried herb, and the D5 the sweet berry fruits. The Killara Farm is a muscular style of Pinot Noir with the fruit depth and layers the Coal River is so well known for.

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 95
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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