Napa rails against Disneyland image

As visitors outnumber residents in the California wine industry’s spiritual home, is Napa cooking its golden goose? What is a winery; a place to make wine, or an event center to host tastings? In grappling with that question, Napa Valley is also struggling with a bigger one – what is a paradise? Napa currently has more cars driving into and out of the county every day than it has residents. It has the nation’s first agricultural preservation law, but it grants variances to that law several times a year that allow people like Philippe Melka to build closer to the road than the law supposedly allows.