Loic Parola

After Paris and Bordeaux, our Sales & Marketing Manager came all the way from France to work at Turanga Creek Organic Winery.

Working for Turanga Creek is hugely exciting. It is the first organic vineyard in Auckland and the team here is really dedicated to bring the wines at a top level on the New Zealand scene. On top of that, we have a lot of other things happening like art exhibitions and concerts that just make Turanga Creek even more interesting.

I first learned about wines working in a wine shop in the heart of Paris. That’s when I really started to get passionate about wines and decided that it was what I wanted to do. I then decided to go to Bordeaux and graduated with a MBA in Wine Marketing. This gave me opportunities to work in marketing and purchasing for several wine merchants in Paris and Bordeaux. 

Wine then brought me to New Zealand! I wanted to be part of this exciting and dynamic industry and I was also looking to try some unique wines… After having worked for a fine wine importer in Auckland, I decided to join the Turanga Creek team and work with them and their unique expression wines.