Our Story
William Boscawen
Founder & Director
Knowing that he would one day return to living in the countryside, William has spent many years working in London and Asia. In this time, he has worked in marketing and finance, and with a short foray into architecture. It was whilst working in Hong Kong, juggling an MBA in his spare time that his love for wine (all of them) truly started to flourish.
In 2015, the chance came for William to return to Kent to take on some family farming interests. He leapt at it. Within a year, he had planted his first vineyard and become vineyard manager. First he built a winery in a garage, and a year later, a bigger winery at Brewers Hall food centre down the road. He produced his first commercial vintage of English Sparkling Wine in 2018. All the while he set himself a bigger challenge of re-inventing the world’s oldest drink; Mead. MAROURDE, in its first year, won Kent’s Food Product and Kent Specialist Drink of the Year in 2018.
Scott Gebbie
Wine-maker & Head of Production
Born and raised in Kent, Scott left the area to study a Bachelors degree in Food Science and Nutrition in Leeds before entering the wine industry. Beginning by volunteering for an organic vineyard in Portugal, Scott cultivated an interest in the wine industry which lead him to New Zealand. Here he was introduced to industrial wine production and an exciting community of travelling winemakers. Scott went on to work in numerous wineries and vineyards within the wine regions of Tuscany, California, Oregon, Ontario, Marlborough, Canberra, South and Western Australia, Tasmania, Languedoc and Kent.
Once progressing through the cellars and onto winemaking teams, it was time to hit the books again. Scott studied a two year Masters of Science in Viticulture and Oenology at Montpellier SupAgro in France, and Geisenheim Hochschule in Germany. Finally, Scott’s passion for method traditional sparkling wine lead him to Champagne where he interned with the Comité Champagne’s vineyard research team before joining Mereworth Wines in time for our first commercial harvest in 2018.
Chloe Prescott
Operations Manager
Before joining the Marourde team, Chloe spent 15 years in finance. She is highly qualified in both lending and investments having spent much of her career as Private Banker, where she helped high net worth clients meet their objectives.
After leaving banking to spend more time with her family, Chloe joined the Mereworth Wines and Marourde team as Operations Manager. She is based locally and thrives working in the Kent countryside she loves. Chloe confidently takes control of the day to day business requirements at Marourde and will often be the cheery voice which greets you when you make a call to Marourde HQ.
Michelle Fairless
Marketing & PR Manager
Having studied English Literature and Latin at Newcastle University, Michelle has always had an affinity with words. Add to this the fact that she has spent over 10 years working in the pub and restaurant trade around Kent, most recently managing The Mark Cross Inn near Tunbridge Wells. This has instilled in her a great sense of how locally produced, fantastic tasting food and drink fits into such establishments.
Michelle joined us in January 2020 and is enjoying combining her passions for words and fine pub drinks to let everyone know about the great products Marourde have to offer, and all other exciting goings-on from Marourde HQ.
