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La Tour d’Argent, Paris’s oldest restaurant, recently performed an audit of its renowned wine cellar and found that 83 bottles with a combined value of over $1.5 million were missing without explanation. Decanter’s Martin Green reports:
The one-star Michelin restaurant sits on the banks of the Seine and boasts sweeping views of Notre-Dame Cathedral.
La Tour d’Argent, which provided the inspiration for the film Ratatouille, is renowned for having one of the world’s greatest wine cellars.
The tightly-guarded cellar is home to more than 300,000 bottles, and the collection’s worth has been conservatively estimated at £24m.
Staff recently conducted their first inventory since January 2020, and they discovered that 83 bottles had vanished.
They could have gone missing at any time during the past four years, a sommelier at the 422-year-old restaurant told Le Parisien.
Prestigious wines from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti are among those missing, according to the sommelier.
La Tour d’Argent has filed a complaint to the French police. No evidence of a break-in was discovered but the Third Division of the Paris Judicial Police is investigating the disappearance of the wines.
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