Maturus Palatus - noun

The final stage of maturity for one's palate whereby tastes once considered 'disgusting, awful or too adult' are now held in high esteem.

Red wine, flat whites, dark chocolate.

Mast Brothers Chocolate to be precise.

Adulthood. It's so....

Wild.

Picture this - The very overcrowded 16:25 from East Croydon through to Brighton, a bottle of Sainsbury's finest, I mean, 'Taste the Difference' Cava and a couple of helpless northerners; loved up and putting every guy on board to shame.

That's romance.

(And here's a little more...)