2023 Ahi Ka Sauvignon Blanc

Highly Rated
The no.1 rated Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc this year according to The Real Review.

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95 points & #1 Ranked 2023 Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc
"High energy wine with a perfect sweet-sour balance giving the wine pleasing tension."
- Bob Campbell MW (The Real Review)

Matt Thomson, one-half of tearaway NZ label Blank Canvas, is the winemaker behind this drop-dead bargain of a Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc.

Matt thinks this is the best Sauvignon vineyard he has worked with in his extensive international career as a flying winemaker.

Ahi Kā is a pioneering wine venture, that collaborates with growers to craft exceptional single-vineyard Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc wines. Co-founded by award-winning winemaker Matt Thomson, Master of Wine Sophie Parker-Thomson (both of Blanc Canvas), and grower John Blackmore, Ahi Kā transforms the Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc paradigm, fostering high-quality, ethical, and sustainable partnerships for long-term impact.

The launch signifies a commitment to revolutionize the industry, ensuring growers receive fair compensation for superior quality, fostering a sense of pride, and connecting consumers with the land and ethos.

"I can honestly say that in all my years of making Sauvignon Blanc throughout all of Marlborough, John's vineyard consistently produces some of the most impressive Sauvignon Blanc and I'm thrilled to be working together with him again on this special project."
- Matt Thomson (Winemaker)

95 points & #1 Ranked 2023 Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc - "Intense, vibrant sauvignon with lemongrass, red capsicum and passionfruit flavours supported by a mouthwatering cut of tangy acidity. High energy wine with a perfect sweet-sour balance giving the wine pleasing tension." Bob Campbell MW (The Real Review)

GOLD New Zealand International Wine Show 2023

GOLD Aotearoa Regional Wine Show 2023

5 STARS ***** "Ahi Ka is a partnership between specialist grapegrowers and the owners of Blank Canvas. Offering impressive quality and value, the intensely varietal, youthful 2023 vintage (5*) is a single-vineyard wine, grown at Dillons Point. Light lemon/green, it is mouthfilling and vibrant, with very good weight and concentration of ripe, passionfruit/lime flavours, vague salty notes, excellent delicacy and a dry, persistent finish." Michael Cooper

This single vineyard Sauvignon Blanc displays profound passionfruit and blackcurrant notes from arguably the most awarded vineyard in Marlborough. In what can only be described as a blockbuster, the Ahi Kā Blackmore is a tropical-fruit driven Sauvignon Blanc that is accompanied by vibrant acidity and a richly textured saline palate. It is hallmark of the famed Dillons Point sub-region.

Appellation Marlborough Wine Certified
Vegan

Price Bracket $30 or Less
Type White
Body Light Bodied
Variety Sauvignon Blanc
Country New Zealand
Region Marlborough
Feature High Score
Women in Wine
Reviewed By The Real Review
Critic Score 95
Size 750ml
Vintage 2023
Closure Screw Cap

Blank Canvas

Blank Canvas is the brainchild of Matt Thomson and partner Sophie Parker-Thomson MW, a fascinating, innovative wine industry couple based in Marlborough, New Zealand.

Matt has spent more than 20 years completing two vintages a year (one in each hemisphere) and is an energetic and detail-oriented winemaker. Sophie is more the academic who came to wine via a stop-off in the law profession but has since become one of New Zealand's most respected Masters of Wine.

Together they have amassed a stunning tapestry of single vineyard sites across New Zealand from where they source fruit, including vineyards in Marlborough, Hawke's Bay and Central Otago. They seek out ways to challenge winemaking orthodoxy and are not tied to any one region or style. For Matt and Sophie every region, and every vintage and every single vineyard is a blank canvas on which they can paint.

Matt Thomson and Sophie Parker-Thomson MW Discover Blank Canvas

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