Alcohol-free wine alternative
Cul Sec is the non-alcoholic alternative to wine. It combines ancient winemaking traditions with years of foraging. Terroir infusions of stalky orange wine or mineral notes of oyster shell, combined with tannins of wine grapes and deep wood tones. Delicious with dinner, that one night or still with your Sunday lunch.
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cuvée 2025 is almost there!!!
Cuvée 2025 will be available begin October! pre order? mail to:fruitslagers This year we are working on new stuff-not really new recipes, but more like new ingredients. We've always started from ingredients, and the recipes are something that naturally emerge from them. It's not as if you "invent" a recipe, so to speak. This year we have many new ingredients, and with them we are testing how they match. Our base is grapes, coming from new places, new harvests, and new pressing techniques. We are experimenting with all of these ingredients. For example, this year we will use more verjuice, which means the acidity will come from unripe grapes. Last year, we relied more on gooseberry and Japanese quince for acidity. This year we are using more of the unripe grape preparations. We are exploring the tannins that unripe grapes can give us, the sourness that comes from them, and all those different varieties, sourced from different places: some grapes from France (Ardèche), some harvested in Germany (Kitzingen), and some coming our way from Hungary.
Alternative to wine
We missed the robust non-alcoholic flavors and textures found in the wild. Cul Sec is an alternative to good funky wine with a little fermented sparkle. Perfect over dinner, as an aperitif or for in the woods. Drink medium chilled, in your favorite wine glass.
Terroir
For years we have played with flavors from our wild landscape. Fermentation of roots, infusions of seeds, solutions of oyster shell: Cul Sec creates a challenging terroir for the palate. With minerals and powerful ingredients, we create a full and complex texture and mouthfeel. A combination of long research and the playground of Fruitslagers in a bottle.
Cul Sec pin
Voila; the Cul Sec enamel pin for the colectioneur. Wear it on your blouse, bleu de travaille or tenu de soirée (with butterfly attachment) À boire Cul Sec. A non-alcoholic alternative to wine. Looking forward to this season's new grape harvest!The first cuvée 2024 flew to 9 countries. Why the name Cul Sec? Joel stopped drinking completely one day. As a true wine lover, he always smells every bottle that comes across the table. If a bottle smells really good, he says, "I would drink it Cul Sec. After 2 years of research on texture and ingredients, Emile developed a wine without alcohol, our father could finally drink it 'Cul Sec'! (French: at once).
Restoration of terroir
We work with organic vintners for healthy soil. Herbs we grow with farmers in regenerative ways, thus naturalizing the landscape. Oysters are harvested along the Breton coast and wood is recycled from old wine barrels. The wilder the landscape, the more flavor!
Recipes
Cheese board - Rouge and Voiture
Rouge en voiture goes toward Pinot noir, gamay in terms of flavor and texture. Think berries, rhubarb, flint, oak, rosemary, cocoa. Flavor notes from the rouge en voiture that go well with cheese, especially the slightly softer cheeses.And of course preferably a cheese board of cheeses from your neighborhood.
Tempeh Caesar Salad - L'étable Fumé
With the creamy curly bean, crisply fried, you can make a surprising variation on the classic Caesar in no time. Delicious in combination with funky terroir from L'étable Fumé. With a dressing of rich olive oil and our herb vinegar, complete the salad.
Salad Mineral
Balad mineral goes perfectly with summer herb salads. A salad is the representation of and around the vegetable garden in any season. Wildflowers and pickled spruce tops finish it off.
But even in the wild, seasons give it flavor. Along the Dutch coastline, all kinds of salty herbs and vegetables grow. For example, check out sea kale, beach beet or sea fennel. And especially use a delicious salty salad.
L'huitre Minerale
There are oyster shells dissolved in Balade mineral, which provide an extra mineral palette. This makes the oyster its best companion. Tight acids of green gooseberry and the salty oyster take you on a journey to mineral cliffs. You can just feel that sea breeze howling.
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