feral trade wine from Weingut Karl Erbes Mosel, Germany White wine from the winemaker Karl Erbes in Ürzig, found on the steep sloping left bank of the river Mosel. Selection and shipment facilitated by radio artists Sarah Washington and Knut Auferman, Mosel residents and Feral Trade sympathisers. ferally traded since: 22/02/10. FER-1534 Weingut Schild Mosel, Germany to Tyneside Cinema Newcastle, UK dispatched 22/02/10 delivered 25/02/10 wine shipment FER-1534 REMARKS: QTY: 20 units at bottle each FROM: Weingut Schild in Mosel, Germany http:// TO: Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle, UK http://www.tynesidecinema.co.uk SENDER: Sarah Washington RECEIVER: kate rich REQUESTED: to ship between 05/02/10 and 02/03/10 STATUS: delivered Tyneside Cinema 25/02/10 MAP route map www.feraltrade.org COURIER: Sarah Washington  kate rich  TOTAL ROUTE:  Weingut Schild--Tyneside Cinema           wine Weingut Schild to Tyneside Cinema 1. knut aufermann sarah washington feral trade wine transaction 2. transmediale mosel wine cash 3. red wine transaction with laura 4. Knut and Silke packing at Karl Erbes 5. two wines for newcastle Courier Report FER-1534 DISPATCHED: 22/02/10 DELIVERED: 25/02/10 Sarah Washington I met Laura, representative for Weingut Schild, through her press work for a larger winery. She supports our fight to prevent damage to the world's most important stretch of Riesling vineyards from a coming motorway and giant bridge. (If interested see this campaign website.) The Weingut Schild red wine is from the grape Spätburgunder, which is another name for Pinot noir. It was recently tasted and praised by the eminent wine critic Jancis Robinson. The Karl Erbes Riesling is made in Ürzig by Stefan Erbes, who plays in the table tennis club with Knut. (We have picked frozen grapes for Eiswein with him at 6am on a dark morning at -10.) I ordered the wine by email whilst at Transmediale in Berlin. The following week Laura brought the red wine from her partner's estate near the Nahe river to my house at the Mosel, as she works a few kilometres from me. We made the transaction in my kitchen in Ürzig, where I explained to her the idea behind feral trade. We had a decent session putting the world to rights, despite her flu. Knut and I took her bottles to the Karl Erbes wine estate nearby, to pack in a single box together with their white wine. There is a really good postal subsidy that winemakers can register for which allows them to send 21 bottles of wine to the UK for €14. Any amount of bottles up to 21 (not exceeding 30kg) will cost the same to post. For this transaction I wanted to bring the two winemakers together in one parcel to make a new local connection for transporting wine, and to achieve the most economic delivery for a heavy product which would be difficult to deliver by hand. Once packed, the very large box was sealed and the pre-paid postage label was applied by Silke who works for Karl Erbes. Then Knut and I drove it to the post office in the next village. freight and handling wine to Tyneside Cinema sponsored by    FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org