2025 Chatto Bird Pinot Noir

The 2025 Bird Pinot is the more delicate, lighter-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)