The End Must Really Be Nigh: Roughly 50 percent of young people in France never drink wine

How can it be?

What next, no accordions?

And what does "nigh" mean?

Joyless, jackbooted and totalment un-French researchers at the U. of Montpelier, appearing 7 feet (0.00213km) tall and genderless in their starched white lab coats, made headlines in WineSpectator:

Young France Isn't Drinking Wine
The "French Paradox" is becoming a thing of the past

French citizens remain the world's leading consumers of wine, drinking about 55 liters annually, according to a recent study carried out by the University of Montpellier. That's almost six cases a person. But that number has declined more than 50 percent since 1980, when the French drank an average of 120 liters. Why is the nation most associated with wine drinking less of it?

Read the whole sorry tale.