Wine: French revolution

Jul 18, 2010

As France celebrates Bastille Day, the country's wine industry is experiencing its own historic upheaval. Modern forces have been storming some of the country's traditional bastions through the creation of the Vin de France category in an attempt to get France's struggling wine industry back on track. Recent years have seen French wine hit by a two-sided assault. At home the French are imbibing less, with its per capita wine consumption falling from an average of three glasses a day in the 60s to just one glass today.

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