Grant Ashton didn’t mean to open a wine club. In 2010, Barclays’ then European head of credit trading was simply looking for the solution to an awkward situation. “I had a wine problem,” the 55-year-old says – then hastens to clarify: “Not that sort of wine problem, but I had way too much wine.”
Wine lovers don’t want to pay through the nose for tipples they like, says Grant Ashton, founder and CEO of 67 Pall Mall.