Which small European country has the highest ratio of wine drunk per person?

More wine is drunk per person in the Vatican City than in any other country in the world, according to the latest statistics released by the Wine Institute. The figures show that residents of the Vatican consume 74 litres of wine on average – roughly equivalent to 105 bottles over the course of a year. That’s around double the amount drunk by the average person in France or Italy as a whole, and triple the quantity consumed in the UK.

As well as the occupational hazard of being required to take ceremonial Communion wine, the National Catholic Reporter said Vatican residents are more likely to be old, male, highly educated and eat in larger groups – all factors that can contribute to greater wine consumption.

The fact that it only has a population of around 800 people does make it easy for per-capita figures to be distorted by outlying groups, however – and in the Vatican there is reportedly a single supermarket supplying everyone with wine almost completely tax-free.