Top Wineries New Zealand 2023 by The Real Review. Based in Marlborough, it is the vinous studio of husband-and-wife team: Matt Thomson MSc, an award-winning international winemaking consultant and Master of Wine Sophie Parker-Thomson. “It is genuinely humbling and inspiriting for Sophie and I to receive acknowledgement like this, as we really do pour our heart and soul into these wines.” With over 45 years of collective experience in the global wine industry, Blank Canvas is the result of vast winemaking experience and the joint desire to create distinctive, fine wines that represent the very best of New Zealand. These are not mainstream wines, but high-quality and often adventurous wines from Marlborough and Hawke’s Bay. Blank Canvas crafts small-batch finewines from exceptional single vineyard sites, and they are increasingly recognised as the avant-garde of New Zealand wine.