The history of wine production and distribution is one of extreme dedication to fine wines and of notorious frauds and scandals. While these events are somewhat polarized, there are far greater sensational tales of excess and avarice strewn throughout the
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Sometimes I think The New York Times is reading my mind, or vice versa. I had been considering writing a piece about the joys of outsourcing jobs around the house when I opened the paper to find
Read MoreThis week’s column is a reprise of an earlier column. I’m on vacation at a beach house with family. I’ll be back next week with the first leg of my virtual tour of California’s Sonoma County. Over the course of
Read MoreOver the last nine-plus years of this column’s tenure gracing The Examiner’s pages, I’ve intermittently focused on the raw statistics of wine production and consumption in the United States. The history of our collective wine consumption is rather unique. Compared
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera From time to time, I pick out snippets from my past columns that readers tell me they enjoyed. Here are some I enjoyed as well. How I First Learned About Sex With the pending demise of the
Read MoreThe natural and scientific components of winemaking are similar to the production of numerous other products. These products share the core processes and procedures of winemaking, but deviate at some point in their unique lifecycles. The end results bear the
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Some years ago, I wrote a piece with this same title and, since that time, my wife has purchased two new vacuums. Having tried them both only once, (I’m not a big vacuum guy) the crude expression
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera When was the last time you actually wrote a letter to a friend with a pen on paper, placed it in an envelope, sealed it, affixed a stamp, left it in your mailbox and raised the red
Read MoreThere is a growing polarization of “fact-based opinions” that have created opposing camps of pragmatists and theorists. A growing number of my social and, yes, even scientific beliefs, are grounded in subjective evaluation rather than fully vetted empirical evidence and
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera It’s been almost three years since I gave up two-story living in a colonial single-family house for a one-floor luxury condo. The most noticeable difference during that time is that I’ve gained weight. For most of
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