Hoping to have New Zealand Wine legend Kim Crawford on the show this Saturday. If memory serves me well, it was almost exactly 13 years ago that I did a live face-to-face interview with Mr. Crawford at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic. An affable, intelligent winemaker who seemed over the moon happy and extremely cheerful. When I asked him about the cheeriness he explained that he had just sold his winery. Not really a sad thing, although his name went with the brand and he had a non-compete clause, it might just give him the money needed to buy more vineyard property and set about starting a new brand.
Non-compete is up and the new brand is on the shelf here in Kansas, it’s called Loveblock. He’s coming to Wichita next week for a dinner at Scotch & Sirloin.
I hope to have the opportunity to chat with Mr. Crawford, catch up on his wine journey with wife Erica and learn about Loveblock.
Check back soon…
Almost as good, got to chat with Erica Crawford, Kim’s wife who is the co-proprietor of Loveblock. Some great stories and learned a bunch about the history of the vineyards and the Crawford’s journey in wine.
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