Natalie Kenway talks to The Apprentice runner-up about his ambitious wine investment fund.
Tom Gearing gained nationwide recognition after coming second on the BBC programme The Apprentice, but is already well known in the fine wine investment community, having built a 450-strong client base around the world. The director of Cult Wines has been involved in the fine wine market from a young age, being roped in to his father's trips to Bordeaux from the age of 11. But it was not always clear this would be the path he would go down. "It is definitely not the route I thought I would take. I studied history at the University of Nottingham, as I thought it would give me a wide ra...
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