Annoy your neighbors and move on

Is it some sort of sport?

1. Set up a vineyard complete with frost fans just outside your neighbors houses.
2. Don't actually live on the property (who would want to with all that noise).
3. When you get one bad year, sell up and move on.

If readers want to peruse the list of vineyards for sale in Marlborough, I can recommend a quick trip to the Bayleys web site will give them a pretty accurate impression of the state of the wine industry in Marlborough.

If I was a betting man, and from looking at the properties for sale, I would presume to think that investors who thought "I'll but in 20 acres of grapes and rake in the profits" have been sadly let down.

The big players who used to buy of the little boys have now got their own vineyards producing, so why would they be buying grapes off the small fry who want a larger slice of the almighty grape dollar. So they simply give their contracts the flick and leave them twisting in the wind and forced to sell at a low rate on the spot market or to let the crop fall to the ground.

So take a good look at the Bayleys site and even check out the two properties here and here(pretty pictures attached).

Both these properties do not have the owners living on them and both have installed multiple frost fans ridiculously close to their neighbors.

Funnily enough both these sets of neighbors are mightily annoyed and are actively engaged in discussions with the Marlborough District Council whose Current rules allowed the installations.

Products of greed, arrogance and the poor planning that resulted in a crop being planted in a frost prone location without appropriate protection.

I almost feel sorry for them.

Almost.