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- Red Wine
- Pinot Noir
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 1 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 14% alc./vol
Press Reviews
The Real Review
94 points
Complex pinot noir with an array of flavours including coffee, plum, rhubarb, mixed spice, cedar and toasty oak characters. A richly-textured wine showing appealing 'forest floor' and 'beef tea' bottle development. Drink 2021-2025.
- White Wine
- Sauvignon Blanc
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 1 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 14.5% alc./vol
Press Reviews
The Real Review
95 points
A rich golden colour. Lush, intense and quite complex sauvignon blanc with toast, ginger, honey and subtle oyster-shell and mineral characters. Quite developed and deliciously accessible now. An heroic sauvignon. Drink now.
- Red Wine
- Pinot Noir
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.5% alc./vol
Press Reviews
Wine Orbit
95 points
It’s gorgeously fruited and inviting on the nose showing dark cherry, sweet raspberry, thyme and almond characters with subtle mushroom complexity. The palate is wonderfully weighted and flavoursome, while remaining elegant and refined. It’s delightfully framed by polished tannins, finishing long and very appealing. At its best: now to 2026.
- Red Wine
- Pinot Noir
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 14.2% alc./vol
Press Reviews
Wine Align - David Lawrason
92 points
Here's a delicious, very well made, generous to the point of obvious Otago pinot that captures classic strawberry/cherry fruit with all kinds of wild sage/thyme, moderate oak vanillin, toast and spice. It is medium weight, very smooth, soft and hitting at some sweetness, yet just a bit piquant with warm alcohol, fresh acidity and moderate tannin. Flavour intensity is very impressive; the length is excellent. Score - 92.
- Red Wine
- Pinot Noir
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.5% alc./vol
Press Reviews
Wine Orbit
95 points
Sweetly fruited and immediately appealing, the wine shows ripe plum, spiced cherry, dried herb, vanilla and roasted hazelnut aromas on the nose. The palate is equally satisfying with succulent fruit intensity and expansive mouthfeel, backed by fine-grained tannins, leading to a lengthy delicious finish. At its best: now to 2026.
James Suckling
92 points
Attractively pure and focused red cherries with a spicy background layer, leading to a palate that has super fine, sleek and delicately muscular tannin that builds to a gently coffee-laced finish. Lots to like here. Drink now.
- Red Wine
- Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 1 g/l
- Full Bodied
- 750ml
- 14.5% alc./vol
Press Reviews
The Real Review
95 points
A blend of merlot (33%), cabernet franc (33%) and cabernet sauvignon (33%). Dense, flavoursome wine with cassis, fruitcake, liquorice, chocolate-mocha, spicy oak and dark berry flavours. Richly-textured with a backbone of ripe tannins. A very impressive wine from a very serious producer.
- White Wine
- Pinot Gris
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 1 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.5% alc./vol
Press Reviews
The Real Review
90 points
Hand-picked grapes were allowed to macerate on their skins before a long fermentation using endemic yeasts. The result is a deep, golden pinot gris with intense dried apricot, pear and spice flavours plus a subtle floral (honeysuckle?) influence.
- White Wine
- Viognier
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 1 g/l
- Full Bodied
- 750ml
- 14.32% alc./vol
Press Reviews
The Real Review
95 points
Intense, creamy-textured viognier with tree fruits, apricot, peach, ginger, vanilla, mixed spice and citrus supported by mellow acidity and fine, ripe, peppery tannins. A complex wine that makes a bold statement.
- White Wine
- Chardonnay
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 1 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.4% alc./vol
- White Wine
- Sauvignon Blanc
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- Light Bodied
- 750ml
- 12.5% alc./vol
Press Reviews
Wine Orbit
91 points
Pristine and beautifully lifted, the bouquet shows green apple, nectarine, kiwifruit and lemon peel aromas, leading to a wonderfully flavoursome palate displaying juicy fruit flavours backed by crisp acidity. It's upfront and tasty with a lengthy vibrant finish. At its best: now to 2023
- White Wine
- Grüner Veltliner
- Sustainable
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- 750ml
- 13.5% alc./vol
About the Winery
Blank Canvas

Blank Canvas is the personal wine range of husband and wife team, Matt Thomson and Sophie Parker-Thomson.
Having completed over fifty back-to-back vintages in both New Zealand and Europe as an award-winning winemaking consultant, Matt together with Sophie felt it was time to create and build a wine brand together, with their first vintage in 2013. Blank Canvas embodies their own expression of art-meets-science with single-vineyard, small batch wines that push the sensory boundaries and challenge winemaking orthodoxy.
Winemaker Matt Thomson’s science background defines the parameters of his winemaking canvas, allowing creativity to flow within those bounds. Together with business partner, Master of Wine student and wife Sophie Parker-Thomson, Matt is striving to achieve the unique winemaking fusion between art and science, pushing the boundaries to capture a unique expression.
Sophie recently obtained her Master of Wine title, joining 149 women MWs globally with the total number of MWs in the world now 418 in 32 countries.
Press Reviews
The Real Review
95 points
Weighty, richly-textured grüner that was fermented in oak puncheons and aged on the lees for 10 months. Mandarin, orange zest, root ginger and nutty lees. One of the best local examples I've tasted.
Real Reviews
94 points - Bob Campbell MW, Real Reviews
Silken-textured wine with orange zest and white pepper flavours plus some tree fruit and nectarine flavours. Subtle, pleasing wine.” 4.5 stars. Bob Campbell MW, Real Reviews.
Tim Atkin
91 points
Grüner Veltliner is rare enough in New Zealand, but one with six years of bottle age is unique. But what a brilliant wine this is. Part of Matt Thomson and Sophie Parker-Thomson’s off-the-wall series of small volume Kiwi whites and reds, this wouldn’t look out of place in a line up of top Austrian examples of the grape. Partially barrel fermented in larger French oak barrels, it’s bright, focused and remarkably youthful, with notes of bay leaf and white pepper, crunchy minerality and pear and citrus fruit. Drinking window: 2019-22. Tim Atkin MW, Wine of the Week (11/10/19).
Jancis Robinson
17 points - Julia Harding, MW
Now this really does have Grüner Veltliner written all over it even though the vines are still pretty young (this is the fourth harvest). It is certainly peppery but it also has the oily (in a good way) depth that I have only ever seen in the Wachau. There’s some citrus and green fruit too but also a mineral, dry texture. I do just slightly feel the residual sugar on the finish and would prefer it bone dry, even it that made it slightly more severe. But it is well balanced and remarkably full bodied given the moderate alcohol. Still incredibly fresh but starting to show the complexity of some bottle age. I look forward to tasting it again. Julia Harding MW, JancisRobinson.com