Blank Canvas Upton Downs Marlborough Pinot Noir 2023 bottle

Blank Canvas Upton Downs Marlborough Pinot Noir 2023

£32.25

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Key info
CountryNew Zealand
RegionMarlborough
GrapePinot Noir
TypeRed
Vintage2023
Alcohol13% ABV
BodyMedium
SweetnessDry
PerfumedSavouryStructured
Pairs with — game, pork, poultry

The wine

Bright raspberry, red cherry and currant unite with graphite, forest floor and a subtle smoked bacon note. Perfumed and structured: the elevated single vineyard on the terraces above the Awatere River gives elegance and delicacy of fruit, while the winemaking delivers an impressive tannin framework and excellent length.

Blank Canvas is the project of Matt Thomson and Sophie Parker-Thomson MW, who work parcel by parcel across Marlborough rather than from an estate of their own, matching each site to the variety that suits it. The Awatere is the cooler, drier and windier of the two main valleys, closer to the sea and higher up, and it gives Pinot Noir a tighter, more savoury frame than the Wairau plains further north. Sealed under screwcap.

The producer

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Blank 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.

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