It. France has too much wine and it's paying millions of dollars to destroy the leftovers. Hear about it at Urban Legends and Stranger truths. France is about to destroy enough wine to fill more than 100 Olympic sized swimming pools and is going to cost the nation about $216,000,000. Ruining so much wine may sound ludicrous, but there's a straightforward economic reason for this happening. Making wine is getting more expensive, due in part to recent world events, and people are drinking less of it