The daughter of Donald Gordon of the Liberty Group, she has led the De Morgenzon wine estate in Stellenbosch since 2003.
[4] She was one of three children, and the only daughter, born to insurance magnate Donald Gordon and his wife Peggy.
[4] In 2011, she also bought the nearby Quoin Rock estate for R60 million after tax authorities seized it from Dave King.
[11] She is a member of Peggy Rockefeller's Global Philanthropists' Circle, the Helen Suzman Foundation, and the International Women's Forum.
[3] She is also known for adopting social causes: she pursued a consumer protection complaint against the Auction Alliance after becoming convinced that it had defrauded her through ghost bidding in the Quoin Rock sale,[12] and later she supported a legal challenge against garnishee orders.