Celebrating high scores for new release wines
Our team is celebrating the success of our new release flagship wine range, with our six key wine varietals all receiving glowing reviews and high scores from some of New Zealand’s leading wine critics.
Following a smaller sized, but exceptional quality vintage this year, and an exemplary, but Covid-19 lock-down restricted harvest last year, our Marlborough-based team is now delighted to share the new scores for our eponymous te Pa Wines range - and we reckon these wines are the most consistently highly scored releases we've have ever had.
te Pa’s owner and founder, Haysley MacDonald, says of the critical acclaim: “These incredible scores demonstrate the hard work, passion and drive our team puts in to produce the best wines we can, year after year. The 2020 Chardonnay and Pinot Noir wines are world-class, and the new release 2021 white wines and Rose wines are all highly concentrated and expressive, due in part to the smaller sized harvest which meant less berries but more flavour.”
New Zealand’s leading reviewers, Candice Chow of Raymond Chan Wine Reviews, Sam Kim of Wine Orbit, and New Zealand’s only Master Sommelier, Cameron Douglas, have reviewed the wines recently, and each critic’s score and rating is included below:
te Pa 2021 Sauvignon Blanc (click to shop)
- Sam Kim, Wine Orbit: 94 Points & 5 Stars
- Candice Chow for Raymond Chan Wine Reviews: 94 Points & 5 Stars
- Cameron Douglas, MS: 92 Points, Premium
te Pa 2021 Pinot Gris (click to shop)
- Candice Chow for Raymond Chan Wine Reviews: 93 Points & 5 Stars
- Cameron Douglas, MS: 93 Points, Excellent
- Sam Kim, Wine Orbit: 93 Points & 5 Stars
te Pa 2021 Pinot Noir Rose (click to shop)
- Candice Chow for Raymond Chan Wine Reviews: 92 Points & 4 Stars
- Cameron Douglas, MS: 92 Points, Premium
- Sam Kim, Wine Orbit: 91 Points & 4 1/2 Stars
te Pa 2020 Riesling (click to shop)
- Sam Kim, Wine Orbit: 94 Points & 5 Stars
- Candice Chow for Raymond Chan Wine Reviews: 93 Points & 5 Stars
- Cameron Douglas, MS: 93 Points, Excellent
te Pa 2020 Chardonnay (click to shop)
- Candice Chow for Raymond Chan Wine Reviews: 94 Points & 5 Stars, ‘30 Chardonnays Under $30’
- Sam Kim, Wine Orbit: 94 Points & 5 Stars
- Cameron Douglas MS: 94 Points, Excellent
te Pa 2020 Pinot Noir (click to shop)
- Sam Kim, Wine Orbit: 94 Points & 5 Stars
- Candice Chow for Raymond Chan Wine Reviews: 93 Points & 5 Stars
- Cameron Douglas, MS: 93 Points, Excellent
We're so proud of these new results, and want to acknowledge the incredible hard work of our team to grow, harvest, make and bottle, these awesome new vintage releases. We hope you will enjoy tasting them as much as we enjoyed making them! Shop the te Pa range by clicking here.
