Gusbourne

Gusbourne Estate

Andrew Weeber was a South African orthopaedic surgeon who fixed Gazza's knee. Then he bought a Kent estate and planted vines on a former Viking battlefield — 280 longships wintered here in 892 AD. His winemaker Charlie Holland came from Nyetimber. The prestige cuvée is called '51 Degrees North' because fine wine supposedly ends at 50°N. In a blind tasting at the London Wine Fair's Battle of the Bubbles, Gusbourne came second in the world, ahead of Dom Pérignon 2013. The medieval goose crest in Appledore church — three geese from 1410 — is on every bottle.