Aerial view of the Langham Wine Estate. Langham Wine Estate
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Convinced that sparkling wine was the way forward, he had good fortune on his side as it turned out the sheltered site, chosen for its slope 90m above sea level and with a south-facing aspect, sits on a bed of cretaceous chalk.
A former chartered surveyor and owner—with his brother and sister—of Langham Wine Estate, Justin Langham’s long-held interest in vineyards turned to enthusiasm as he made a point of visiting wine producers on his travels. After attending Plumpton College, he decided in 2009 to plant the champagne varieties chardonnay, pinot noir and meunier in a 10ha plot of land on one of the family’s six farms that had been bought in 2004.
Convinced that sparkling wine was the way forward, he had good fortune on his side as it turned out the sheltered site, chosen for its slope 90m above sea level and with a south-facing aspect, sits on a bed of cretaceous chalk. 12 miles from the sea as the crow flies, the Crawthorne vineyard, bisected by a thick, tall hedgerow acting as a natural windbreak between the Home Field and the Bowling Green Field, was initially planted to 12ha of the champagne varieties with a
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