Saving Napa Valley

The valley floor is covered in grapevines. There are over 400 wineries in Napa Valley with more on the way. Where to go next? The hillsides on both sides of the valley.

Wine and the resulting tourism is Napa's lifeblood so some are fine with planting as many grapevines as needed. Others are for maintaining the natural beauty of the hillsides. Some would like to put a curb on growth. Some cite watershed issues.

Vineyards on Atlas Peak above the Napa Valley floor
How far should they develop?

At some point you have to say no to growth, but are we there yet? It comes down to taking out native oak trees and replacing with monocropping and it's up to the locals to figure out when and where to stop.

Some interesting reading on the subject:

From Wine Spectator

From Bloomberg