According to the Economist, wine is losing its popularity among the French

This partially reflects the changes taking place in French society. One of the reasons for this change is immigration. Many migrants do not value wine as much as the French used to. They come from a culture which does not value wine. In part, this explains why the consumption of wine in France is going down. Even French culture and civilisation are mutating, and wine appears to be one of those areas going through change partly due to the changes brought over by immigration.

French schools once prized the nutritional value of wine. So commonly was it served to children that in 1956 the government banned wine in school canteens—and even then, only for the under-14s. France was the world’s biggest wine producer last year. A bottle of wine has long been to the French meal what fast driving is to the German motorway: a humdrum habit, national right and personal pleasure.

No longer. In 2022 roughly 10% of French people drank wine every day, down from half in 1980. Back in 1960 the French drank an average of 116 litres of everyday wine per person. Between 2000 and 2018 that shrank from 28 litres to just 17. A glass of wine, let alone the once-familiar pichet, is an increasingly rare sight at the lunch table.