Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — One of the first things people think of when they think of France is French wine. However, Americans may have the wrong idea of how much wine the French consume and how much they know about the grape.
For instance, a 2010 survey pointed out that only 17 percent of Frenchmen drink a glass of wine daily. Overall consumption, it seems, has dropped dramatically since 1965.
Meanwhile, the polling company Viavoice recently surveyed more than 1,000 adults in France to determine if the assumption that the French are true wine connoisseurs is actually true.
Turns out, it isn’t.
Only three percent of those polled said they knew lot about wine while a whopping 71 percent admitted that they didn’t.
Of those who regarded themselves as connoisseurs, 43 percent held down white collar jobs while just 16 percent of blue collar workers claimed they were real wine experts.
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