Blank Canvas Escaroth Vineyard Marlborough Pinot Noir 2021
£30.75
The wine
From a rare dry-farmed, north-facing site high in the Taylor Pass, where Marlborough’s widest day-night swings build perfume and depth. Made with a generous proportion of whole bunch to lift aromatics and add structure.
Ethereal and fragrant, it offers red cherry and wild raspberry over rose, dried herbs and a savoury, spicy undercurrent, the tannins silky and the finish long. A beautifully poised Pinot. Lovely with duck, game, mushroom dishes and soft cheese.
The producer
Blank Canvas
View all Blank Canvas winesBlank Canvas is the work of Master of Wine Sophie Parker-Thomson and the acclaimed winemaker Matt Thomson, a husband-and-wife partnership founded in 2012. Their philosophy is art meets science: seek out exceptional single vineyards across New Zealand, then match variety and style precisely to place.
The focus is Marlborough, where Sophie chairs Appellation Marlborough Wine, yet the range roams from racy Blind River Riesling and textural barrel-fermented Sauvignon to perfumed single-vineyard Pinot Noir and a cool-climate Gimblett Gravels Syrah. In 2025 the couple secured their long-awaited home, an amphitheatre vineyard high in the Omaka Valley.
These are small-batch, hand-crafted wines of real precision and personality, from two of the most respected names in New Zealand fine wine.






