BLANKbottle

Pieter Walser built BLANKbottle around a simple idea: let the wine be tasted before the grape name sets expectations. The inspiration came from a customer who said she disliked Shiraz, enjoyed an unlabelled glass of it and then bought three cases. Walser left grape names off the front labels.

He sources small parcels of fruit from growers across the Western Cape rather than from an estate vineyard, allowing the range to change with the fruit he finds. He also creates the label artwork himself, working with woodcuts, lino, drawings and stencils.