Heather McNeil – amusements for your mouth

Oh, how I don't like that word...Seems that if you are anywhere close to 40 and single, the assumption is you are a cougar.  Which, really, what does that mean? How did that animal take on that connotation?

And exactly how young does he have to be? 5 years? 10 years? Under 30? Who comes up with this stuff?

What's more strange about this is now it is somewhat cool for the guy to have scooped up the older woman. They're not emabarrased at all, kind of like a notch on the belt sort of thing.  Well not for me....

with one exception...

I am most definitely a cougar when it comes to wine! You can keep your old, tawny, "no more fruit to be tasted" wine and leave the young ones to me.  Now again, not too young.  I want a little age, a wine that has actually laid down and has some depth, but not one thats so aged that it's unclear what kind of performance it's capable of.

Wine Spectator recently reported that a case of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 1945 sold for 218K at auction.  I am sure it's drinkable, and impressive it could last this long, but do people really enjoy this? [I'm talking taste, not stamina.]

Or is it the idea of it?

Like the woman that goes for the younger guy...is it the idea of it? The fantasy? What is the fantasy anyway? I'm kind of thinking I don't really want to provide instruction.

So what's in it for me?[spoken like a true woman on this subject]

Where the young ones are concerned, and I am speaking in terms of wine...definitely more fruit, a bigger mouthfeel, a fresh taste and a decidedly better appearance...

Hmmmm, is there a correlation? This I may never know.

Wait!

Oh yea, I forgot....

never say never!