Members Revolt at Meadowood Pools

For years, Meadowood’s three pools kept peace in the Napa Valley: the kid pool for cannonballing toddlers, the lap pool for Lycra-clad locals, and the lounge pool reserved exclusively for hotel guests.

But trouble bubbled up when winemakers—many of them members of the exclusive resort in St. Helena—were denied access to the lounge pool. Furious at being excluded, they launched a “protest” by crowding into the kid pool in Speedos, pounding magnums of rosé, and ordering endless rounds of French fries—while loudly pretending they hadn’t actually ordered them.