2025 Chatto Intrigue Pinot Noir

Jim Chatto’s Huon Valley operation pushes the absolute limits of Tasmanian viticulture. While his flagship release zooms in on specific vineyard blocks, the Intrigue bottling shows a blend of his whole home farm.

Sourced entirely from the Isle Vineyard in Glaziers Bay, it blends all eight Pinot clones planted across the property. It takes its name from a racing yacht secretly built in 1984 inside the exact shed that now serves as the winery. The 2025 vintage delivered a wet spring followed by a warm, dry run to harvest, driving concentration without sacrificing the deep south's essential tension.

Everything is handpicked and wild-fermented with 15% whole bunches. The juice spends ten days on skins with manual plunging before resting in French oak puncheons - just a quarter of them new.

This trades delicate fruit for serious, textural power. The 2025 has a dense core of black cherry and dried mountain herbs, and dense tannin. A serious and cellar-worthy Tassie Pinot from one of the best producers of the variety in the country.

96 points
"There's a subtle sense of horsepower to this wine, but its arc is graceful and true. Great drinking."
- Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points
"So much power here and with it, length... It’s firm, it’s textural, it has impact and yet it’s all zeroed in on the length of the finish."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)