2025 Blank Canvas Meta Riesling 375mL Half Bottle, Marlborough

Please note: this is a 375mL size of a sweet late harvest wine

Excellent – a completely delicious wine with a distinctive bouquet of honeyed stone fruits and citrus peel preserve, there’s a spice layer suggesting baking spices then lees and whipped cream. Delicious, creamy and intense flavours that mirror the bouquet, high acidity and concentration. While this wine will age for some time to come it is also perfect to drink from today. Best from 2026 through 2036.

94 points Cameron Douglas for MiNDFOOD Magazine

A real treat, the striking 2025 vintage is fully botrytised, late harvest style, grown in the Blind River district. Light gold, it is notably rich, with an oily texture and concentrated peach, apricot and honey flavours, sweet, vigorous, finely poised and long. Best drinking 2028+.

5 Stars Michael Cooper for The Listener

Beautifully aromatic, flower petal, apple, honey, a wisp of mushroomy botrytis, lemon curd. The sweetness is evident, yet there’s beautiful purity, and with its apple and citrus notes it still speaks of its variety. While it has high rs, it somehow pulls off a juggling act as there’s freshness too, with great acid balance. Wonderful texture, fabulous length, a wine to savour now and for years to come.

Excellent to Outstanding Mark Henderson for Otago Daily Times

The grapes for this Riesling were grown in the Muritai vineyard of Blind River, a subregion of the cool, maritime Marlborough on New Zealand’s South Island. Located less than two kilometres from the Pacific coast, the site is one of the driest and windiest in the region. The 2004 established vineyard is planted in soils of moisture retaining sedimentary loams and silts.

Harvested late in the season, the noble rot (botrytis) affected grapes were selectively handpicked. Gently pressed, the skins were returned to the juice for an overnight maceration ahead of a second pressing. The juice from this was allowed to settle naturally in stainless steel and fermented with select yeast strains, with fermentation stopping naturally to produce a sweet wine with 178 grams residual sugar and a low 8.6% alc./vol.

This wine is vegan friendly.

About this producer

Blank Canvas was founded in 2012 by husband-and-wife team Matt Thomson and Sophie Parker-Thomson MW as a culmination of decades of global experience and ongoing curiosity.

Their single vineyard New Zealand wines start lives as blank canvases, each seeking to present an authentic glimpse of a time and place through precision viticulture, restrained winemaking and transparent provenance.

The quality floor is set high here, with wide critical acclaim bestowed on each wine and vintage. Blank Canvas is a certified member of the quality promoting Appellation Marlborough Wine as well as Sustainable New Zealand Winegrowing.