drinks have shot up by a quarter but in france, the growth has been slower, reportedlyjust 4% in the same period. so, how do parisians feel about alcohol free wine? i ve never tried it. i like wine regular wine. i m used to that. i think we re losing something. you want to feel the taste. it s not as fun, either. one man hoping to transform french attitudes is augustin. hello, ade! bonjour! last year, he set up what he says is paris s first shop entirely devoted to nonalcoholic drinks. do you get any snobbery? do you get people who come in and when they hear there s no alcohol, they re like, what?! what is this? ! yeah, at the beginning, some people were kind of making fun orjust laughing when they entered. but then, for us, it s not against alcohol because most of our customers, they re what we call flexi drinkers, so they keep drinking
you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the travel show, and stay tuned for newswatch. this week on the travel show. we ve got the struggle of equality being queer, and we ve got the struggle of equality being indigenous people in this country. ..how pride reaches the world s oldest cultures. you ll see the smell is close, but then the lands in the mouth is different. ..and a teetotal tipple in the land of wine. it s good, actually. i don t like it. hello there from sunny paris, where later on in the show, i ll be finding out whether the city of love is ready to relinquish its favourite drink, but first.
4% in the same period. one man hoping to transform french attitudes is augustin. hello, ade. last year, he set up what he says is paris s first shop entirely devoted to nonalcoholic drinks. do you get any snobbery? do you get people who come in and, when they hear there s no alcohol, they re like, what? what is this? yeah, at the beginning, some people were kind of making fun orjust laughing when they entered. but then, for us, it s not against alcohol, i because most of our customers, i they re what we call flexi drinkers, so they keep drinking alcohol, but they also, time to time, l want to have a break. of course, you have all the pregnant women, the muslim people - who never drink alcohol. he s far from the first person to ride this trend. a few rounds of alcohol free bars have opened up over the past few years all across the world. along with spirits and beers, augustin stocks two kinds of alcohol free wine.
jacqui wakefield in sydney. whether you re mad for merlot or salivate over a sauvignon blanc, the city of love swoons for a glass of wine. as other countries have music orfashion, in france, you ll see a glass of wine on each table in any bistro or michelin star restaurant. it s worth 25 billion euro a year to the french economy, and then there were 5.5 billion bottles produced in france last year. but as bars and restaurants all over the world shut their doors, the pandemic forced loads of us to reassess our relationship with booze and explore more nonalcoholic alternatives. international sales of nonalcoholic drinks have shot up by a quarter, but in france, the growth has been slower, reportedlyjust
evening to you in a beautifully sunny paris. what is the sense that you ve been getting since you are there? is the macron camp feeling confident? what s your assessment? the macron camp is probably more confident than it was under a couple of weeks ago. just after the first round of voting, it did seem as if the two front runners, were pretty close. one put them atjust two points between each other, macron ahead of marine le pen. president macron seems to have pulled ahead. goals have him anywhere between 11 and 15 points of madame le pen. todayis and 15 points of madame le pen. today is the last day of campaigning, and we are expecting more opinion polls. i would suspect