Author Talk: Peter Hahn and Angels in the Cellar
Come join us for an evening with Peter Hahn as he discusses his book, Angels in the Cellar. This event will take place in person at Wyken Vineyards, and include tasing wine from Peter's vineyard in the Loire Valley alongwith some nibbles.
More about Peter and his book:
Twenty years ago, Peter Hahn, then a highly successful businessman, had a breakdown while in the back of a taxi in London. Realising that something was desperately wrong with his life, he moved to a small, decaying vineyard in the Loire Valley, and slowly began bringing it back to life. Since then Hahn has lived at Le Clos de la Meslerie, making small batch prize-winning organic wines, following the principles of regenerative farming. In
Angels in the Cellar he invites us to spend a year in his company as he reflects on the land, his life, and the lives of the small group of people he works with. We join Peter through the seasons, pruning the vines and harvesting the grapes by hand, before we follow him to the cellar, where the alchemy begins – and the angels take charge.
An evocative, poetic account of a year spent working with nature, Angels in the Cellar is also a powerful repudiation of the global economy, its obsession with hyper-consumption and its impacts on the land and its ecosystems.
Peter Hahn grew up in Australia and Asia, and for two decades has been a winegrower at Le Clos de la Meslerie, a small vineyard in the Loire Valley, rarely leaving it, growing grapes and making organic wine. He is married and has three children.
