Cul Sec Balade Minérale bottle, alcohol-free blanc
Editorial still

Cul Sec

Balade Minérale

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Research record Product facts researched; not yet tasted or scored.

  • ABV <0.5% Verified from producer documentation · Sep 2026
  • Method Formulated Verified from a cited source

The wine

Record

Cul Sec Balade Minérale is a built blanc, not a wine with the alcohol taken out. Fruitslagers places the house in the Netherlands and the grapes in Kitzingen. The public facts are the producer’s. A score waits on a pour.

How it was made

Classification Alternative

Evidence status Producer documented

Fruitslagers describes Balade Minérale blanc, cuvée 2025, as fresh and dry with a slight sparkle: organic Müller-Thurgau and Bacchus from Kitzingen, enriched with oyster shells, lacto-fermented rhubarb, verjuice, dulse, Douglas fir, and oak. The house calls Cul Sec an alcohol-free wine alternative made by maceration of wild herbs, wine grapes, and fermentations. The bottle in hand is labeled alcohol-free blanc; that wording is not a 0.0% residual.

Sources disagree on the following points.

  • Style: The producer page is the grape source. The retailer description is not used for the identity.

Product record history

Sourced changes and open disagreements. Prior claims stay on the record when sources conflict.
  1. Research record. Product facts researched; not yet tasted or scored.
  2. Abv — Sourced check for abv.
  3. Production_type — Sourced check for production_type.
  4. Price — Sourced check for price.
  5. Open Style — The producer page is the grape source. The retailer description is not used for the identity.

Verified facts

Evidence: Producer documented · 2 sources

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  • ABV <0.5% Verified from producer documentation · Sep 2026
  • Classification Alternative · Botanical wine alternative Verified from producer documentation · Sep 2026
  • Method Formulated Verified from a cited source
  • Origin Kitzingen, Germany, Netherlands Verified from a cited source
Sources 9 facts · 4 sources · Facts checked Sep 2026

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