Even though I am fully aware that I'm not getting/feeling any younger, I'm happy to say that I'm still feeling good!

And one of the reasons I feel good is because I savour the value of my 30+ years of professional experience and historical researches which make me flatter myself (I do that sometimes) to think that,

at least professionally speaking, I'm like a good Bordeaux wine which can only get better with time...

But some of you will argue that a good wine, when it has reached its maturity, can only decline...

Yes, but I still have a dozen years (maybe more) to dedicate to my swan song before I start declining and, in the end, my plan is to say (as Marie-Antoinette could have said): "oh, but it was so good while it lasted"!