I started drinking alcohol (only wine and never ever ye olde beer) about when i had reached the age of maturity in its medium. I felt the confidence for the very first time to purchase this stuff when i had researched about its aging capabilities, and how it would benefit the drinker more than killing him, I started to have a feeling for wine and all its content during some same months ago at a Christmas party held in our house, a funny thing is that when i was 16 to 17 years old i hate the taste of grapes and all its gushy fillings inside, even hated the sun dried types they call " pasas" for that matter, but then what let me started liking all about grapes and what eventually turn me into liking everything about grape is the darkish violet sweet but thick skinned grape that came from the US...it was a gift for Christmas by my aunt who donated almost a kilo of the stuff to my folks. At those earlier times I knew one way of eating grape is by peeling off the skin and throwing out the seeds less of course thats what my Mom thinks...but something forced me to eat the whole of the grape, including its seeds which by the way tasted like ampalaya's bitterness in the inside. The acquired taste of bitterness from the tea I got fond of all these years must of adapted the grapey taste in my mouth, not long before i had the whole 4 to 5 bags of sweet treats disspeared in my mouth. O what heaven those perfectly shape babies were. The urges didn't stop from there, It was also Crhistmas time, mmy other folks from the maternal folks' friend brough with her a bottle of Jacob's brut cuvee, although my taste belong to the red and gamey kinds, this liquid made me realize that there is a lot more to explore in the world of wine, I knew it then and there that soon i will be all mature enough and what better start maturity than to learn how to drink, i have forseen my future to have lived my life until i'm about a century old, likewise I begun to research on the facts that may provide me with healthy living but with a sense of style in the process and along with that is a colorful and exciting life as an artist, an explorer, and a professional taster. In the process i also vowed that i will not ever smoke of any kind as this was a killer in most rates, beer is a very common past time, but in my opinion, beer is much of a common gig than an unexplored bottle of wine, which ofcourse is much much more complex and secretive, it fits my character, and I wish to pursue it even more, all beer is, is just tradition and get togetherness, but wine is like quality living, social interaction, judgements, criticizing and much more, a perfect combination of all drinks combined. Well as of the moment that is what i had envisioned my life to be, as a collector of modern future green products and innovations and a self-envisionary of the future, Ofcourse I would never forget TEA and coffee, specially tea drinking , it has been a part of my life since i came to have a thought of self-appreciation experience, it has become a part of me and to death I will not depart on this wonderful gifts of nature that is tea, coffee and wine