2015 | Blank Canvas | Syrah

What a great bouquet of Syrah, fresh, peppery & fruity. Violets, brown baking spices and toasty oak. Equally engaging on the palate with a core of salty, ripe red berry fruit flavours, pepper and olive, some meaty fleshy moments, firm tannins, a back bone of acidity and long finish. A decent complexity, layered, balanced and well made.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Interestingly, the 2017 Element Syrah includes 60% whole bunches and was co-fermented with a small proportion of Grüner Veltliner skins, both of which serve to emphasize the wine's lifted, peppery aromatics. The oak influence is modest, allowing those pepper notes to shine, accenting dark olive and black cherry fruit. At under 13% alcohol, it's a lithe, silky wine, medium-bodied but amply concentrated, with a lingering finish. Drink it anytime over the next decade.

• Wine Spectator: Super peppery and sweetly fragrant, woody spices on offer here. This has a very fresh and frisky, complex feel with concentrated blackberries and cassis defining the palate, as well as chocolate and pepper. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

Producer Information

Blank Canvas is a New Zealand wine producer, located in the Marlborough wine region of the county's South Island. It produces a collection of single-vineyard wines from Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Noir and Syrah amoungst others.Blank Canvas was founded by wife and husband team Sophie Parker-Thomas MW and Matt Thomson in 2013. Together they share over 35 years of collective global wine experience in both the northern and southern hemispheres.In terms of winemkaing, the company philosophy approaches every vintage and single-vineyard as a "blank canvas" with the aim of reflecting individuality and character. Each wine of the portfolio is classified as small-batch.The company works with long-term growing partners throughout Marlborough, Hawke's Bay and Central Otago. Cool-climate Syrah is sourced from the Gimblett Gravels subregion of Hawke's Bay whilst Sauvignon Blanc is sourced from Dillon's Point in Marlborough.

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