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South AFRICa → chINa → jA- pan → ThaILaNd → VIEtNaM → aUStRALIa → NEW ZELAND → ITaLY → SPAIN → FRaNCE → UNItED KINGdoM → SOUTH aFRICa → MoR�CcO → TU- NISIa → aLGERIa → SYRIa → GEORGIA → aRMENIA → aR- GEntINA → MEXICo → CHILE → CaNADa → UNItEd StatES → M�NFERRaTo → SWItZER- LaNd → GERMANY → DEN- MaRK → SWedEN → gREEcE → CYPRUs → TuRKeY COMBAT ISSUE 02 WINE ZINE MOSTO ☛ Combat wine zine MOSTO TEAM LORENZO CIBRARIO .. Editor in chief ELENA OLIVIERI ................. PR CECILIA ARATA .... Graphic designer MOSTO! Combat Wine Zine is a queer, anti-racist zine founded by Lorenzo. With Cecilia’s creative and graphics and Elena’s public relations. MOSTO! Volume 02 was made with the help of these very talented people: ANNA VAN DYK London-based, South African born GRAZIANO NANI With 15 years of experience Anna writes about love, food and travels on her in the communication world, now the creative website annavandyk.com. director of Doing. Also certified Sommelier Ais and wine journalist for several magazines. MAI LEGGERA aka Annina Vallarino works in On Instagram is #HellOfaWine and his blog is publishing and runs a website called maileggera. gutin.it, where he writes about wine, design com. She now lives in the South of France, where and storytelling. she enjoys the wine and the good weather. KAYA TANII is from Japan, currently finishing SILVIA IVANI is post-doc at Vrije her master's degree in Italy focusing on Universiteit in Amsterdam. Her fields of Food, Wine, and culture. Leaving her career interest are philosophy of Science and in management consulting in hectic Tokyo, Feminist philosophy. She is currently working she's now pursuing to be a sustainable food on the links between epistemic, ethical and consultant and researching natural wine both in social factors in the scientific speculation. the libraries by day, in the bars by night. BRAM JONHSTON a former country kid who PIERRE ALLAIN Trying to make sense of a lot wandered to New York City and fell in with of things, Pierre Allain is a graphic designer, the wine crowd, Bram mainly divides his time illustrator, and radio host as well as a messy between wine, writing, and music. tigermimic.com collector, an amateur birdwatcher, and a horror movie enthusiast. IG instagram.com/pierreall ANNA LONGUINE is a writer, currently living in Paris after years of working in natural wine SERGIO VARBELLA Former editor of Maltese in London. Pursuing her passion for free-verse Narrazione is a graphic designer, illustrator poetry and creative non-fiction, she is the co- and cartoonist for Einaudi, EL-Einaudi Ragazzi, founder of publishing house Orpheus Standing Fabbri Editori, Internazionale. His ricent Alone (2014). Her work has been included in works includes the graphic novel version of multi-media shows and exhibited in France, Little Women (Mondadori Electa, 2020) and the Germany and the UK, as well as in online and illustrations for La storia dell’Inter in 50 printed publications. annalounguine.com ritratti (Centauria, 2020). sergiovarbella.com AXEL POLIMANTI Axel is an italo-french guy in DARUMA_RIE is a graphic designer and his 30s. He lived out and in Asia for 10 years illustrator from Paris. their website is teaching English. He’s now back in Perugia instagram.com/daruma_rie where he opened the language school Lingo. His bands are Dummo and a brand new project called Snek Cebet. He loves wine. e made it. We, virtual explorers, managed to combination of human efforts on natural landscapes. w travel around the world in these 66 pages of This specific human intervention into Nature has been MOSTO! Combat Wine Zine volume 02. In a year whe- going on since the Neolithic Era - if not before. From re nothing was feasible - but a year full of important the Americas to New Zeland and from Africa to Cana- changes - we were able to take you on a quick tour - da, wine has been worked and produced according to a and are delighted about this. precise method that is common amongst all latitudes With Bram, our reporter from California, we met a and parallels, but still, why are there some many racist Cult leader with a passion for wine, then we travelled issues in the business? White suprematism is a thing in to Thailand to see the environmental skills of the lo- the wine world, as well as misogyny and gender discri- cal wine business and shipped over to India to disco- mination. Why is wine business so white, straight and ver the grapes from the hills of Maharashtra. old-school? The factors are several, obviously, We then drove to China to taste Axel's but perhaps a linguistic one could be more Hao Chinese fermented wine and we relevant. It could be its attachment to got drunk and happy with an old-ti- an outdated way of thinking that di- me friend of ours. With Japanese vides between new world and old wine expert Kaya, we learnt about world, or North vs South, or East ancient grapes and Japanese terro- and West. Decolonising the wine ir, followed by some philosophi- business needs radical change on cal exercises with post-doc Silvia its language: no more Old-world from Amsterdam and some rumi- wines versus New-World Wines, no nations about being sober with our more New Latitude Wine versus Old South African journalist Anna. Latitude Wine, no more Masculine Paris-based writer Anna Lounguine wine versus Feminine Wine, no more also shared the complex problem of use of world Sommelier (I could go on and Cultural Appropriation in the wine business on): these are all ways to highlight and create concerning Georgia and Armenia. All this jet-lag differences. The wine will speak for itself, providing made us think about made us feeling pretty tired so different nuances and tastes for every wine region, but we got very drunk on the flight with the writer Fran- it’s not the language role to divide. 2020 was a year of kie Barile and MaiLeggera and her take on Colette. turmoil and revolutions, which are always a bearer of Of course, we have not forgotten our beloved Italy, deep changes: let’s hope in a new language in the wine and so we covered the DOCG of the Alta Langa, a Pie- business that will mirror new attitudes and behaviour, montese sparkling wine, and the marketing choices free from old-school hierarchies. of a young winemaker from Valtellina, thanks to the Lastly, MOSTO! Combat Wine Zine volume 02 was crea- expertise of communication expert Graziano. ted thinking of a map, a big map of the globe, which is A brief yet exhaustive introduction to Vinchio - Vaglio round, not squared, and should not have any difference Serra and Tenute RaDe to complete our grand tour. between North or south, East or West. Round just like a Wine is the perfect mixture of Nature and Nurture, the grape, don’t forget about it. ☛ Lorenzo LISTEN TO PLAYLIST 3 GO ING SO BER Text ANNA VAN DYK 4 n d ke up with a o o r 2 f I w a e O g h ct 0 i t 2 n ober 20 n g d a n d r O a y m e h h o e c a a u d t h . I had gone on a date the night before. It’s a vow I have made many times be- The first date I had been on since Ja- fore. And as I write this, my second gin nuary. It had been good, as far as blind and tonic is slowly melting in the glass dates go. We had met at a pub. He orde- alongside me. Usually, my sobriety red a bottle of wine. We drank the who- lasts for one to two months, until I le thing, and then another. I got very gently test the waters with a measured drunk, and in the cold light of the mor- cocktail or glass of wine with dinner. ning after that familiar wash of shame This gradually increases until I relapse rolled over me. I squirmed in my bed in into another drunken night. And the disgust, groaning as I pushed my throb- sequence begins again. bing head into my pillow. Why did I get so drunk? I blamed it on Covid, and a I am not alone in this dance with liquor. year spent in misery and anxiety that A study in September 2020 showed that could only be consoled through booze British participation in Dry January and the interest of a handsome stran- had grown 15-fold since the annual ri- ger. What had I said last night? Where tual’s inception in 2016. There is now was my bank card? I’m never drinking the extra opportunity to absolve our- again, I thought to myself. I’ll go sober selves of our drunken sins through and put that excess energy into run- Oct-sober. In 2018, 75,000 people in the ning a marathon, or writing a novel. UK signed up for the event. We can only Think of the weight I will lose. Think predict that this number has grown in of the supreme human I will become. the subsequent years. Alcohol and I are done. 5 ty? brie r to so yea year, it unanimo he r us f t e ly o ft fe s r a el h yea s nt f, a pul mo i l to entire ty dedicate e i c o s a t u I think the simple answer is that it often W bo hy a d ay feels good to be drunk. It’s a brief ho- o s w hat does it liday from our neurosis and anxieties.