| U.S. wine writer Jay McInerney says he has mellowed with age, now preferring Bordeaux and Burgundy wines to the illegal drugs of his youth and he prefers cabernet now to cocaine then. He is best-known as the author of "Bright Lights, Big City " in 1984 that triggered a rush of so-called cocaine culture novels but has for the past 10 years been writing a wine column for U.S. monthly magazine House & Garden.
Wine is the subject of his latest book "A Hedonist in the Cellar," a collection of some of his wine columns. "I think it is important to acknowledge wine is a hedonistic pleasure. You can read hundreds of wine journals and everybody leaves out the buzz factor. That's part of the pleasure of the beverage". He said his interest in wine has grown as he has matured.
While McInerney confesses to missing the illicit pleasures of his youth a bit, the thrice-married writer with two children says he is still wants to have fun -- and wine is fun, adds the report. "Wine is an incredibly rich subject for study and contemplation and it leads you into a number of other subjects, meteorology or botany, or gastronomy. I find it kind of infinitely interesting," he said.
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