Part of the allure of visiting Paris is the idea of sitting at a busy sidewalk café casually sipping a glass of French wine. In this scenario, the wine is always somehow very affordable and yet very delicious. But it turns out that life-changing glass of Sancerre or Cabernet Franc might be cheap plonk in disguise according to a recent report.
On Monday, The Times reported that cafés in Paris often cheat customers, selling budget wines for premium prices — especially when serving tourists — citing an investigation recently carried out by French newspaper Le Parisien. For this study, two sommeliers dined at bistros around Paris posing as English-speaking tourists to see if they could detect if the wine poured was different from the wine they ordered.
