Growing old

There was a time, when I'm ashamed to admit, that I looked down on folks who were drinking tea when I felt that they should be drinking something else. Who would drink tea when they could be quaffing a nice wine or something similar?
I'm now that tea drinker. For the last few years I've pretty much stopped drinking wine or at least drinking in the way that I used to. That's not to say that I don't drink at all, I still enjoy a nice wine with friends over dinner, but just not drinking for the sake of it.
It's much more the quality rather than the quantity type of drinking. The other night, with friends staying for the weekend, I went in search of a nice red and found a bottle of 2006 El Sequé that I didn't know I had. I remember the first time we ever tried it sitting in the kitchen in France and Jan said, 'that's the nicest red I have ever drunk.' A statement that took me somewhat by surprise but I agreed. It's a red from Alicante in Spain, a region that you associate more with holidays than wine production.
Anyway, my friend and I finished the bottle before dinner and jolly nice it was too.
They've gone now so it's back to drinking tea.