By Bill Primavera How many times, I wonder, have my wife Margaret and I targeted the next Monday to start a new diet? It would be impossible to calculate, but this time around, as I ponder all the … [Read more...]
It’s a New Brave New World in American Wine Regions
A number of Western European countries have centuries-old thriving wine industries, established many years before the United States was a glimmer in the eye of the Founding Fathers. The United States … [Read more...]
Memories of Real Plaster Walls, Long Gone
By Bill Primavera My father died when I was a teenager, before I understood that he was more than a skilled tradesman but, rather, a true artist. A cement finisher by trade, he could do any … [Read more...]
Comparing the Essence and Similarities of Wine and Chocolate
This past weekend, as I sat at my keyboard contemplating the 616th published column of You Heard It through the Grapevine, an urge struck me to indulge in one of the topics of my previous … [Read more...]
How a Ghost Helped Me Buy a House …A Fantastic but True Story
By Bill Primavera In a past column I mentioned, perhaps impetuously, that I had once lived in a “haunted” house and I would someday write about it. Just recently I received a note in the mail from … [Read more...]
The Ultimate Celebrity Wine Resurrected From the Italian Renaissance
Celebrity wines have become highly popular in recent years. A phenomenon of the last quarter century of winemaking in the United States has been the advent and increasing popularity of wines … [Read more...]
How Your Street’s Name Influences Your Home’s Appeal
By Bill Primavera Besides serving as a way to find where you live, can the name of your street influence the perception of your home and its value, positively or negatively? The thought occurred … [Read more...]
A Concise History of Champagne and its Bubbles. How? When? Who?
Ah, Champagne… Historically referred to as the wine of kings and the king of wines, Champagne has a storied and checkered past, often as much by happenstance as by astute winemaking. It has become … [Read more...]
When Home Decorating Should Be ‘A Matter of Time’
By Bill Primavera Normally I don’t watch television in our living room, although there is one there just in case we want to tune in when our extended family visits. My wife and I prefer viewing in … [Read more...]
When a Least Likely Component Has a Significant Impact
Nature has always intrigued me. As a youngster, the ferocity of weather dazzled me, from experiencing the magnificence of a thunderstorm to the unbound energy of hurricanes and tornados. But I never … [Read more...]
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