te Pa is featured in a lead story in Wine Enthusiast's February/March issue about the NZ wine industry with a focus on Maori brands, wineries and winemakers. Many of the photos in the article were supplied by
te Pa.
'We Are the Land, and the Land Is Us': Indigenous Maori Winemakers are Guardians of New Zealand Terroir
"The renaissance of our language and culture has created huge opportunity for genuine Maori wine companies to tell their stories and share our culture to the world," says Haysley MacDonald, an Indigenous man and owner of te Pa Wines. "While this concept may not have resonated with hard-headed gatekeepers 20 or 30 years ago, it certainly did with the consumer and, consequently, we have seen any resistance now morph into positive enthusiasm..."