{"id":78538,"date":"2023-03-10T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=78538"},"modified":"2023-03-09T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T14:57:52","slug":"qotd-wine-in-french-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/03\/10\/qotd-wine-in-french-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Wine in French culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 25px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Wine is obviously hugely central to French culture. In 1965 French adults <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-21929287\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">consumed 160 litres per head a year<\/a>, which perhaps explains their traditionally very high levels of cirrhosis. Despite this, they don&#8217;t have the sort of extreme oblivion-seeking alcoholism found in the British Isles. Anglo-Saxon binge drinking is considered uncouth, and the true man of <em>panache<\/em> and <em>\u00e9lan<\/em> instead spends all day mildly sozzled until eventually turning into a grotesque G\u00e9rard Depardieu figure. (Although Depardieu&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2014\/09\/gerard-depardieu-bottles-wine-per-day\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">14 bottles of wine a day<\/a> might be on the high side, even for French standards.)<\/p>\n<p>When the French sought to <a href=\"https:\/\/vinepair.com\/articles\/french-anti-alcohol-art\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reduce alcohol consumption in the 1950s<\/a>, the government&#8217;s slogan was &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wineecon\/status\/1272736998718164992\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No more than a litre of wine a day<\/a>&#8220;, which must have seemed excessively nanny-statish at a time when primary school children were given cider for lunch. Wine consumption has quite drastically fallen in the decades since, by as much as two-thirds by some estimates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ed West, <a href=\"https:\/\/edwest.substack.com\/p\/the-frenchest-things-in-the-world\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Frenchest things in the world &#8230; Part Deux&#8221;, <em>Wrong Side of History<\/em><\/a>, 2022-12-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wine is obviously hugely central to French culture. In 1965 French adults consumed 160 litres per head a year, which perhaps explains their traditionally very high levels of cirrhosis. Despite this, they don&#8217;t have the sort of extreme oblivion-seeking alcoholism found in the British Isles. Anglo-Saxon binge drinking is considered uncouth, and the true man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1117,41,131],"tags":[104,262,661],"class_list":["post-78538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-quotations","category-wine","tag-booze","tag-culture","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-kqK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80588,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78538\/revisions\/80588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}