They generally say the only way to make a small fortune out of wine is to start with a large one (ho, ho). It is certainly not as easy as it once was to make money out of investing in wine at the moment but I think the key to making money professionally out of wine is probably by taking a sideways look at the wine business and finding a speciality that others have yet to tackle.
For example, probably the most commercially successful operators in the British wine trade have been Tony Laithwaite, whose mail order company (Laithwaites...