2025 Chatto Isle Pinot Noir

The Isle Pinot is the flagship of the Chatto range – estate-grown fruit from Jim and Daisy's home vineyard in Glaziers Bay, Huon Valley. A selection of the best-performing blocks and clones on site; for 2025, fruit from the vineyard's "bookends," clonage 777 (80%), Abel (13.5%) and 667 (6.5%). Darker fruit, denser tannin, more reserved than Intrigue but with greater volume and power.

2025 was warm and dry, rainfall about 10% below average. A wetter spring lifted yields, and a warm, dry finish delivered fruit with real intensity, detail and focus despite the medium weight.

Handpicked, 15% whole bunch, fermented 10 days on skins with hand plunging and indigenous yeast, raised in 1 and 3 year old French puncheons. Unfined, unfiltered, with a light touch in the cellar, but plenty of shape and presence in the glass.

This is the wine Jim puts his name on – summing up everything achieved at the Isle vineyard since 2007. A great drink on release that rewards cellaring.

96 points
"Highly complex. Highly textural. Sinewy and long. Takes a long time to unfurl in the glass... This wine is a world and a wonder. It sits firmly on the palate, and firmly in the upper echelons." - Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)