Nice place. Lots of wine. Up market.
Noisy.
At least for the neighbours of one particularly ornery vineyard operator who is apparently using an elderly and noisy frost fan. You can read plenty in the Napa Valley Register here and here.
His neighbours are crying foul, and many of them own frost fans (read the comments after the stories).
Two things from this article are interesting to note.
Firstly the bloody mindedness of this particular operator who simply doesn't appear to care about his neighbors (and why should he. He lives in San Francisco) .
Secondly the reported impact of his activities on the wine growing community. As a result of his intransigence, legislation will probably have to be passed to limit the noise of the fan to the detriment of many other fan owners.
It's kind of like the gun control debate. The old adage of "Guns don't kill people. People kill People" seems to hold water. In the case of frost fans. The fans aren't the problem. Its the people who use them irresponsibly.
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