Twenty years ago, the American investment banker Peter Hahn suffered a breakdown in a London taxi and took the next logical step: he quit his corporate job, bought a tiny, rundown vineyard in France, and immersed himself in the study of viniculture and winemaking. Angels in the Cellar is Hahn’s account of a year in his life as an artisanal winegrower.

Hahn’s commitment to running a small vineyard using regenerative techniques makes him stand out among the crowd of dissatisfied corporate folk chucking the fast life to find peace on a farm.