Blank Canvas Reed Chardonnay 2024
Standard - 75cl
ETA: 5-7 weeks
- Vintage2024
- ColourWhite
- ProducerBlank Canvas
- CountryNew Zealand
- RegionMarlborough
- Bottle SizeStandard - 75cl
- ABV13.5
- LWIN15736372024
- Avg. Critic Score4.3★★★★★★★★★★
Wine Critic Reviews
So perfumed and full of character, with wild, energetic power, offering aromas of beeswax, dried rosemary, crunchy stone fruit and savory orange peel. Medium- to full-bodied with tense, lively acidity and a tight phenolic structure, showing expressive fruit, smoke, minerals and crushed stones at the end. A beautiful wine. Drink now or hold. Screw cap.
5-Star Wine. Powerful aromas of reduction to start with gunflint, smoke and struck match to the fore. Savoury oak adds another layer of complexity. On the palate the fruit is ripe and dense and easily offsets the reduction. But it is a fine balance, at this stage weighted towards the reduction. However the long savoury, almost meaty finish indicates that for the patient, this will develop into a very fine wine. Alcohol 13.50%. Drink from 2025-2034. Tasted Aug 2025.
- Drinking Window: 2025 - 2034
- Reviewer Name: Jane Skilton MW
The 2024 Chardonnay Reed Vineyard is certainly not shy. Power and punch align with masses of concentration in this young, tight Chardonnay. While it has incredible clarity of fruit, precision and momentum, the 2024 is aromatically unresolved: toast, grilled nuts, smokey bacon and flint make it difficult to pick out where oak influence and reduction begin. These scents seem to meld into one another until they are indistinguishable. Hand-picked and whole-bunch pressed with high solids, with no filtration of fining, this is raw and raunchy stuff. This interpretation of Chardonnay will be divisive, but there's no doubting its quality.
- Drinking Window: 2027 - 2035
- Reviewer Name: Rebecca Gibb MW