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      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.

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      Blank Canvas Abstract Three Rows Sauvignon Blanc 2023
      Marlborough, New Zealand
      $59.95 / bottle
      $359.70 / case of 6
      Blank Canvas Abstract Three Rows Sauvignon Blanc 2023
      • White Wine
      • Sauvignon Blanc
      • Sustainable, Vegan-Friendly
      • Dry
      • Residual Sugar: 2.00 g/l
      • 750ml
      • 13.30% alc./vol

      Blank Canvas Abstract Three Rows Sauvignon Blanc 2023

      Marlborough, New Zealand
      $59.95per bottle ($359.70per case)
      6 bottles per case
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      Layered & Intense

      This product is offered online and at select LCBO locations for a limited time through Vintages Cellar Collection. For help locating stock, feel free to contact us at info@npwines.com.

      Please note: This product requires a minimum lead time of two weeks prior to shipping when fulfilling orders through NPW.

      Blank Canvas is the personal wine range of husband and wife team, Matt Thomson and Sophie Parker-Thomson, MW. With a focus on Marlborough, Syrah from Hawkes Bay and Pinot Noir from Central Otago, the Blank Canvas wines are exciting, small-batch and increasingly recognized as the avant-garde of New Zealand wine. Every effort is put into making wines that are distinctive and cerebral, unencumbered by a regime or badge and are not beholden to tradition. Every vineyard, variety and vintage is approached as if it is a blank canvas.

      Abstract is a study in terroir, shaped by restrained winemaking that highlights purity of fruit and textural depth. The wine shows an intense, seductive perfume of blackcurrant and white florals, supported by flinty minerality and a savoury edge. On the palate, it is textured and expressive, with a subtle richness and complexity balanced by freshness and precision. Elegant and finely poised, it offers immediate appeal while carrying the structure to age gracefully.

      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

      Camdouglasms.com

      95 Points - Cameron Douglas, MS

      Fantastic bouquet, complex and layered with scents of a softer barrel ferment approach, layers of lees with a core of ripe fruit suggesting green melon and cape gooseberry, each and sandy mineral ideas. Other fruits of grapefruit and apple emerge as the wine warms and opens out. On the palate a quietly energetic wine with complexities from citrus and lees, some barrel ferment then apple and melon. Some very tannins and white spice, sandy soils and lees complexities deliver a wine of charms and power. Best drinking from late 2025 through 2031+.