Message on a bottle: This limited edition of orange wine is an ode to protest.
Across 1312 bottles it celebrates creative forms of protests in mankind history.
First edition: sold out. You can still drink it at
Bar Sacchi Zurich, Pinci Berlin, and Wine is Fine Athens.
Join the waitlist for the second edition.
Posters
Stockholm, 2018. A schoolgirl on strike outside parliament sparks Fridays for Future.
The internet, 2010s. A viral protest in first person: people film themselves giving power the finger — one POV shot at a time.
San Francisco, 2016. Colin Kaepernick kneels during the anthem against police violence.
Beijing, 1989. One man with shopping bags stops a column of tanks after the Tiananmen crackdown.
Hong Kong, 2014. Umbrellas raised against tear gas give a whole movement its name.
Bangkok, 2020. Inflatable ducks shield protesters from water cannons and become a symbol of Thailand’s democracy movement.
Strasbourg, 2017. A winemaker from Samos argues his case before the European Court of Human Rights — and wins: winemaking becomes a human right, and Samian wine is freed.
Moscow, 2012. Pussy Riot’s balaclavas turn anonymity into feminist resistance.
Washington, 1967. Protesters place carnations into the rifle barrels of military police at the Pentagon.
Europe, 2020s. Climate activists sit down in front of traffic and refuse to move — protest at a standstill.
Greenpeace projects Munch’s Scream onto the cooling tower of a nuclear power plant — light as protest.
London, 2018. Banksy’s Girl with Balloon shreds itself the moment it sells at auction.
New York, 2021. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wears “Tax the Rich” straight into the Met Gala.
Montgomery, 1955. Rosa Parks keeps her seat — and starts the bus boycott.
A limited number of A1 blueback posters is available in
Zurich at Sacchi and in Berlin at Pinci.
The Wine
At the centre is Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains, a variety that on Samos can do far more than just sweet wine. Across different terroirs, elevations and exposures, shaped by wind, soil profiles and micro-terroirs, the grape shows a remarkable range. Produced deliberately low-intervention: hand-harvesting, spontaneous fermentation, restraint in the cellar, and time as the most important tool. The result is a wine that doesn't hide its voice, but gets straight to the point with character, and finishes like a small demonstration, calling to: Ferment the system!
FREE WINE is a natural wine project by Maximilian Speidel, Lukas Wietlisbach and Marleen Fitterer.
Beautifully illustrated by Philip Dornbierer. Hand animated by Luis Balzer. Music and sound designed by Pablo Nouvelle.