Conned over chianti? Substituting good wine for cheap plonk is common, but very hard to catch
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telegraph.co.ukth-century Tuscan villa in the hills to the south of Florence, he was persuaded to buy the estate’s vineyards, too, after tasting wine from a carafe that the former proprietor told him was wine made on the estate but actually turned out to be Barolo from northern Italy.
He and his wife Trudie Styler only became aware of their mistake much later, Sting told an Italian newspaper, “when we served the estate’s wine to guests, and I saw someone empty their glass into a flower bed.”The switch is what the Corriere della Sera newspaper called, “a little osteria trick” although usually the ruse operates the other way around, with a cheaper wine being substituted for something that at least appears to be grander.
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