How Old Do You Look?

[FMJ]

Burn the candle at both ends and the middle, and it catches up to you. My friend died 2 weeks before his 52nd birthday.

 

[highlandsflyer]

I'm the same age as JC...but in slightly better shape!
I drink fresh carrot juice mixed with some spirulina nearly everyday. I don't smoke or take caffeine but I do enjoy a glass of wine or three. I don't eat meat, seldom eat fish and eat lots of fruit and veg. Also avoid any processed foods.
Its the bloody receeding hair line, grey hair and growing tonsure that gives the game away. Meh...guess I could invest in a hairpiece ha ha
I'm still a bit chubby mind :-(

Can I just ask, is the wine proper? You are an expert, so I assume it is red.

I will never give up my wine. You can try and wrest my wine from my cold, dead hands, but you will meet an army of grapes ready to get stomped on for their cause.

 

[highlandsflyer]

Burn the candle at both ends and the middle, and it catches up to you. My friend died 2 weeks before his 52nd birthday.

Sorry to hear that mate, that is no age to check out.

 

[Midlife]

Blimey 52 is no age to go

I'm the same age as Mr Clarkson......youth was spent in poverty relieved by working in a bike shop to make money and time trialling a bit......the rest of my life is Uni / work / work / house / kids / debt......

I probably look younger than JC but put that down to a healthy (ish) childhood which has sort of kept me happy to eat "not a lot" which is what I was brought up to expect in the early 60's.

Shaun

 

[lumos2000]

i stop shaving so i can get served in pubs

 

[TGR]

I am a tender 46 but look about 56 - 27 years of shift work?

I better add that i looked old when i was born so maybe that is the reason.

Richard

 

[Harryburgundy]

I'm the same age as JC...but in slightly better shape!
I drink fresh carrot juice mixed with some spirulina nearly everyday. I don't smoke or take caffeine but I do enjoy a glass of wine or three. I don't eat meat, seldom eat fish and eat lots of fruit and veg. Also avoid any processed foods.
Its the bloody receeding hair line, grey hair and growing tonsure that gives the game away. Meh...guess I could invest in a hairpiece ha ha
I'm still a bit chubby mind :-(

Can I just ask, is the wine proper? You are an expert, so I assume it is red.

I will never give up my wine. You can try and wrest my wine from my cold, dead hands, but you will meet an army of grapes ready to get stomped on for their cause.

An expert? Well that's not quite true but I know a thing or two.
The wines I buy for the shop ( and drink) are mostly from small family run domaines in Europe. Many are organic and or biodynamic. For me biodynamic production is important as it embraces the natural cycle. No artificial pesticides which destroy microbial activity etc.
I drink red white and occasionally rose and to me they are all real wines for the reasons above. There is some evidence that some red grape varieties have more health benefiting polyphenols and procyanadins but these can only be extracted with a long and slow maceration. Commercial wines tends to be wham bam thank you mam...get the fruit pressed and fermenting asap. Madiran made from the grape tannat is claimed to have a very high content. Recommend Bouscasse.
Like most things in our food chain, we need to be prepared to spend more to get the real stuff and enjoy it a little less often if need be.
Forget the crap wine in supermarkets. Think of the supply chain. Just how much volume is required to satisfy demand in each and every supermarket throughout the UK. Wine produced on that scale has been manipulated and processed. You never really get a sense of where the wine has come from...you don't feel the sun on the grapes, or edgy acidity in marginal climate wines. You don't get a sense of the soil..the gout de terroir. That link between to soil, the air, the roots, the leaves, the fruit has been destroyed by aggressive and commercial agriculture.
Phew... I feel better now! Ha ha

 

[Chopper the ex Copper]

The drink is one thing, but come hell or high water I will never, I say NEVER, give up my rentboys!

I know what you mean. Illicit sex with ladyboys keeps my face young and fresh and my farts silent.

 

[M-Power]

I'm the same age as JC...but in slightly better shape!
I drink fresh carrot juice mixed with some spirulina nearly everyday. I don't smoke or take caffeine but I do enjoy a glass of wine or three. I don't eat meat, seldom eat fish and eat lots of fruit and veg. Also avoid any processed foods.
Its the bloody receeding hair line, grey hair and growing tonsure that gives the game away. Meh...guess I could invest in a hairpiece ha ha
I'm still a bit chubby mind :-(

Can I just ask, is the wine proper? You are an expert, so I assume it is red.

I will never give up my wine. You can try and wrest my wine from my cold, dead hands, but you will meet an army of grapes ready to get stomped on for their cause.

An expert? Well that's not quite true but I know a thing or two.
The wines I buy for the shop ( and drink) are mostly from small family run domaines in Europe. Many are organic and or biodynamic. For me biodynamic production is important as it embraces the natural cycle. No artificial pesticides which destroy microbial activity etc.
I drink red white and occasionally rose and to me they are all real wines for the reasons above. There is some evidence that some red grape varieties have more health benefiting polyphenols and procyanadins but these can only be extracted with a long and slow maceration. Commercial wines tends to be wham bam thank you mam...get the fruit pressed and fermenting asap. Madiran made from the grape tannat is claimed to have a very high content. Recommend Bouscasse.
Like most things in our food chain, we need to be prepared to spend more to get the real stuff and enjoy it a little less often if need be.
Forget the crap wine in supermarkets. Think of the supply chain. Just how much volume is required to satisfy demand in each and every supermarket throughout the UK. Wine produced on that scale has been manipulated and processed. You never really get a sense of where the wine has come from...you don't feel the sun on the grapes, or edgy acidity in marginal climate wines. You don't get a sense of the soil..the gout de terroir. That link between to soil, the air, the roots, the leaves, the fruit has been destroyed by aggressive and commercial agriculture.
Phew... I feel better now! Ha ha

Great post and very true. My family were in the London vino biz for 70yrs, used to bottle their own.

I have the appetite of 3 grown men but only one @$$O . Never smoked and sadly only an occasional light drinker with golf buddies due to no drinking and driving. I'm 47 but still get vibes from ladies less than 1/2 my age. That's good enough for me

 

[Alison]

I'm 47, when I get up I look 97, as the day wears on I look younger and younger and by bedtime, well at least no older than 90 No, I look generally my age now, in my 20's I used to get mistaken for my older sisters kid, she was 3 years older, but now age has caught up with me unfortunately

Alison