BORDEAUX, France (AFP) — 2008 has been all sour grapes for French wine, a once proud symbol of the nation's identity now swirling in a cocktail of alcohol abuse legislation.
Long viewed as a quintessential part of the French lifestyle, along with fine foods and good living, wine is slumping so low in the national esteem that winemakers have even complained of being treated like drug dealers by the government, and their websites put on a par with porn.
One recent survey highlighting the change in popular attitudes to wine showed that 51 percent of people now considered the national drink "risky".
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