less exacting and freer..................

 

     A man advanced in dignity and age counted drink among the three principal comforts that he used to say he had left in life.  But he took it in the wrong way.  Fastidiousness is to be avoided in it, and careful selection of wines.  If you make your pleasure depend on drinking good wine, you condemn yourself to the pain of sometimes drinking bad wine.  We must have a less exacting and freer taste.  To be a good drinker, one must not have so delicate a palate.  The Germans drink almost all wines with equal pleasure.  Their aims is to swallow rather than to taste.  They have much the better of the bargain.  Their pleasure is much more plentiful and ready at hand.

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Works, Book Two, Chapter 2