In 1996 Kim Crawford and his wife Erica fell in love with the idea of starting a winery. In their first vintage they produced 4,000 cases without owning a single grapevine or tank. With headspinning speed their powerful aromatic wines gained a devoted fol | lowing and within four years of their first release they had their own state of the art Marlborough Winery and were exporting wines across the world. Today Kim Crawford is the number 1 luxury New Zealand Wine in the USA.