Cul Sec

Cul Sec's beverages are produced in the Voedselstation, a collectively founded food production facility that the producer's website describes as a 'factory without a boss' for circular food producers. The line is made by Fruitslagers, which collaborates with a network of agricultural businesses spread across the Netherlands to restore landscapes on different soil types. Emile Corre is a founder of Cul Sec.^[1]

Cul Sec positions itself as an alcohol-free alternative to wine, built as a maceration of wild herbs, wine grapes, and fermentations. According to the producer's website, the range works with organic wine farmers and herb growers to reach mineral, funky, barn-like, and volcanic flavor tones. The producer frames its output as a natural wine alternative, drawing on biological grapes and flavors from a food forest.^[1]

Grape base -- organic wine grapes. Cul Sec uses organic wine grapes as a core ingredient, described also as biological grapes, worked with organic wine farmers. The producer's website ties this base to flavors from a food forest.^[1]

Foraged botanicals -- wild herbs. Wild herbs sourced through foraging are used as ingredients across Cul Sec's wine alternatives, worked alongside herb growers.^[1]

Across the range, Cul Sec aims for mineral, funky, barn-like, and volcanic flavor tones, achieved by working with organic wine farmers and herb growers. The Cuvée 2025 range is characterized by a balance of ripe oxidized and unripe wine grapes, carrying fresh acids and tannins.^[1]