2024 Chatto Bird Pinot Noir

A juicy, youthfully fresh Pinot that possesses explosive power.

Established in 2000 by Jim and Daisy Chatto, Chatto Wines is dedicated exclusively to Pinot Noir. With over two decades of experience and numerous accolades—including Gourmet Traveller Wine’s Winemaker of the Year—Jim Chatto crafts small-batch, site-expressive wines. The home vineyard in the Huon Valley is planted to eight Pinot clones, producing elegant, intensely flavoured wines in tiny quantities. The 2024 vintage followed Tasmania’s driest summer on record, delivering clean, concentrated fruit. These are structured, expressive Pinots with immediate appeal and excellent cellaring potential.

Semi translucent bright red colour with a light red tinged hue. Delightful ripe cherry, strawberry and anise aromas flood the nostrils with some fresh herb, violet, delicate forest floor and spice notes also evident. Juicy red to dark cherry, strawberry, red raspberry and anise flavours explode across the palate with great force. Infusions of fresh herbs, delicate earth and spicy cedar the undercard. Polished fine grained tannins. Finishes youthfully fresh and long. Uber delicious stuff!
Drink over the next 5-6 years.
Alc. 13.5%

Other Reviews....
Clone 114 planted in 1998.
The fruit here has a sweet edge but then it’s also herbal, sinewy and long. It’s classically structured, well flavoured and, even as a young wine, inherently complex. Woodsy spice notes – crushed – a lavender note, plenty of herbs and plenty of black cherry, with a dark cedar, smoked tobacco-like character through the finish. Excellent Pinot Noir. Will mature beautifully. Drink 2026 - 2033+
94 Points
Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

Light-medium red-purple colour; shy aromas of clean fresh red cherry to raspberry aromas, some attractive herb touches, and firming, cleansing tannins to complete the picture. Very smart pinot of a more delicate style, and best served with food. (Pipers River district).
94 Points
Huon Hooke - The Real Review