Blank Canvas Meta Marlborough Late Harvest Riesling 2025 (Half bottle)
Blank Canvas Meta Marlborough Late Harvest Riesling
Region: Marlborough, New Zealand
Vintage: 2025
Bottle size: 37.5cl
Grape: Riesling
ABV: 8.5%
Named ‘Meta’, this botrytised, late-harvest Riesling reflects the remarkable transformation the grapes undergo in the final weeks of autumn, as noble rot concentrates healthy fruit into shrivelled, intensely sweet berries. The resulting wine is richly hedonistic and nectareous in style, offering aromas of citrus zest, orange blossom honey and marmalade. On the palate, pronounced sweetness is balanced and carried by a vibrant backbone of acidity, giving lift, energy and persistence to the finish.
The Muritai Vineyard, nurtured by Simon and Vanessa Barker, sits on heavy clay soils, which retain moisture and nourish the vines’ root systems. Located less than two kilometres from the wild east coast, Muritai lies in one of Marlborough’s windiest pockets. Constant sea breezes help protect the vines from disease, reducing the need for intervention, while cool winds from both ocean and mountains moderate the climate and encourage slower ripening during cooler autumn evenings.
The grapes were selectively hand-harvested in the vineyard before being gently whole-bunch pressed, with the juice returned to the skins for an overnight maceration to enhance flavour, sugar and acidity extraction. After a second pressing, the juice was naturally settled and fermented with selected yeast strains in small stainless-steel tanks. With minimal intervention throughout, fermentation naturally ceased at around 8.5% alcohol. The wine then spent seven months on light lees before gentle filtration and bottling
Blank Canvas is the vinous studio of award-winning international winemaking consultant Matt Thomson and Master of Wine Sophie Parker-Thomson. With over 40 years of collective experience in the global wine industry, they produce small batch fine wines from exceptional single vineyard sites throughout New Zealand under their art-meets-science project
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