2025 Holdaway Vineyard Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, Blank Canvas

• Style: Crisp, mineral, coastal Sauvignon Blanc
• Taste: Guava, passionfruit, oyster-shell minerality, bracing salinity
• Food: Asparagus, goat cheese, white fish, shellfish, herb-dressed seafood
• Occasion: Aperitivo, summer drinking, weeknight, Sunday lunch
• Serve: Chilled, 13% ABV, vegan & vegetarian

In the Glass — Tasting Notes

Guava and passionfruit open onto a mineral spine that catches light like crushed oyster shell—a textbook expression of cool-climate viticulture and night harvesting. The palate explodes with tropical intensity, then pivots sharply to bracing salinity. Light lees contact whispers texture without austere edges. At 13% ABV and 6.4g/L acidity, this wine refuses to apologise for its focus.

The Winery — Blank Canvas

Matt Thomson and Sophie Parker-Thomson lead this art-meets-science project, drawing on four decades of collective global wine experience. Matt has worked over fifty vintages across numerous regions and collaborated since 1994 with industry figures; Sophie left a legal career behind in 2011 to join him in New Zealand. The 2025 vintage rewarded careful viticulture with concentrated fruit—a warm spring built healthy vines, a record-dry season preserved natural acidity, and near-perfect flowering ensured no compromise on ripeness. Holdaway's Dillons Point vineyards in the Wairau Valley, farmed by the family for generations, show regenerative commitment through zero-till soil management and minimal intervention. Machine harvested in cool night hours, grapes were pressed gently, fermented at low temperature in stainless steel, then settled naturally on light lees before bottling—a wine that tastes like terroir, not technique.

At Your Table — Food Pairing & Serving

This wine cuts straight through the noise. Pair it with asparagus, goat cheese, herb-dressed seafood, poached chicken, white fish, shellfish and salads. It's vegan, vegetarian and certified sustainable—an aperitivo that shines on weeknights, at Sunday lunch, or during summer drinking. Explore our Sauvignon Blanc selection to discover why this ranks among the finest expressions we've found. Dive deeper into our New Zealand portfolio and uncover what else we've selected from this remarkable region, or browse more from Marlborough.