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Chatto 'Isle' Pinot Noir
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"Deep and brightly youthful purple colour in the glass with a big waft of smoky reduction at first sniff. The wine is rich and concentrated on palate with tremendous depth of ripe cherry fruit flavour and a pleasant backing of fine, dry tannins. There is rich, ripe black fruit underneath the sulfides but it needs airing to bring the fruit aromas out. A great complexity of flavour and bouquet is eventually revealed. The texture is wonderfully sumptuous. An extraordinary pinot of serious weight, depth, perfume and structure. (3 to 4 clones selected from the Chatto family vineyard, Huon Valley)" 98 points - Huon Hooke, The Real Review
"This release of Chatto’s Isle Pinot Noir sits backward in the palate, with oak pushing slightly forward. It needs air and time. In pinot terms it has an imposing form, its cherry flavours deep and black, its smoke and spice notes diving for the depths. The tannin here. It bleeds earth and spice. It does not suffer fools. It doesn’t take the fruit flavours by the hand; it grabs the wine by the scruff of its neck and insists that it make good of the future. No wine is an island but this wine is an isle by name and by nature, in that it stands atop its heap and leads. There’s an authority to this wine. There’s depth, substance, a hinterland of flavour, a farmer’s promise, a handshake of soil and riches." 96 points - Campbell Mattinson, The Real Review
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