How do you make a small fortune in wine? “Start with a large one!”

Many a true word is spoken in jest. But there are plenty of examples — one in the form of a listed company, Winecorp (back in the 1990s) — of ambitions withering on the vine when steep initial investments simply don’t justify the erratic and often low returns from wine investments...

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