CEOs Play Farmworker
Growing in Napa: Club, and Camp, for Wine Lovers
ST. HELENA, Calif. - At 5:30 a.m., the stars still in the sky, the pickers approached the fields. Wearing miner's lamps, they attacked vines heavy with cabernet grapes of the finest French stock. Occasionally, the sticky clusters of grapes would muck up the prongs of the women's Cartier jewelry.It was harvest time at the Napa Valley Reserve, the nation's first wine "country club." Here, on Napa's choicest land, C.E.O.'s, venture capitalists, lawyers and other Type A's indulge their agrarian fantasies by playing farmworker for a day.
To add verisimilitude, club members are charged stock options for bathroom breaks. Then at the end of the day, they get deported.
