Every vintage is different. Climate, ripeness and yield are out of your hands, and the wine in the tank changes with them. Holding your style and your price year to year is the hard part.
For winemakers and wine companies
The wine you want, from the fruit you have.
We assemble a team of natural yeast strains for your varietal, built around the taste you choose. Wines made this way sell for 30% to 50% more per bottle.
Why it works
Most wineries ferment with one commercial yeast strain. One strain can only take a wine so far. A team assembled for your varietal takes it further.
What it can do
- Correcta flaw.
- Enhancewhat’s good.
- Transformthe style.
- Holdit steady, vintage after vintage.
- Expandone varietal into more than one wine.
Most projects do more than one.
Three examples from commercial vintages
What would you do with yours?
From the cellar
“From a winemaking standpoint, you have a whole different set of tools. You have the ability to take a certain juice and make it something unique.”Watch the Reif team explain what changed in their wines
Taste it before harvest.
We develop your yeast team in our lab, on juice of the same varietal.
You don’t have to wait for harvest to find out. Ask us how.- You tell us the taste you’re after.
- We assemble and test your yeast team.
- You taste the samples and choose.
- You get your strains, ready to inoculate at harvest.
No additives. No blending. Same label.
You use our non-GMO yeast team in place of your usual yeast. Same equipment, same team. Your variety, vintage and region stay on the label.
Who we are
Kulture Rebellion assembles natural yeast teams for food and drink makers.
Vintune™ is how we do it for wine.
Thinking about alcohol-free? The same approach makes alcohol-free wine, beer and spirit styles, with no dealcoholization equipment.
What would you change about your wine?
Tell us in a sentence. We’ll tell you if we can help.
Cabernet Sauvignon
Same Cabernet fruit. Green pepper out, dark fruit in.
Ripe dark fruit, even in a cold year.
Green pepper and vegetal notes
MethoxypyrazinesCommon when fruit doesn’t fully ripen.
Blackcurrant and dark fruit up front.
In the cellar. Made in a working winery, by its own team, on its own equipment. No additives, no blending.
- A cold year leaving your reds green and peppery?
- Picked early to beat the weather, and it shows in the glass?
- A second label you’d like to move up a price tier?
Tell us the taste you want. You taste samples before harvest, before you commit your fruit.
Sauvignon Blanc
Same Sauvignon Blanc fruit. Lean and grassy to bright and tropical.
A vivid, aromatic Sauvignon Blanc with tropical lift.
Lean and grassy
MethoxypyrazinesQuieter on the nose than the market wants.
Gooseberry, passion fruit, grapefruit
Varietal thiolsIn the cellar. Made in a working winery, by its own team, on its own equipment. No additives, no blending.
“The tropical notes on the Sauvignon Blanc are unreal. It’s quite remarkable what can be done.”
- Aromatics that swing with the vintage?
- A white that’s quieter on the nose than the benchmark you compete with?
- A style you’d like to get closer to, without blending?
Tell us the taste you want. You taste samples before harvest, before you commit your fruit.
Baco Noir
Same Baco Noir fruit. Foxy notes out, bright red fruit in.
A clean, red-fruited wine that holds a premium price.
Foxy, grapey aroma
Methyl anthranilateCommon in hybrid varietals, and often what keeps them priced low.
Red cherry and raspberry, the notes drinkers know from Pinot Noir
Fruity estersNew cocoa and watermelon-rind aromatics.
In the cellar. Made in a working winery, by its own team, on its own equipment. No additives, no blending.
“Our minds are exploding because we’re getting, like, watermelon rind on it. It’s a fruit structure we never had before.”
- A varietal you grow well but can’t sell as a premium wine?
- A variety your market sees as everyday?
- A note in the glass that buyers mark down?
Tell us the taste you want. You taste samples before harvest, before you commit your fruit.
What would you change about your wine?
Tell us in a sentence. We’ll reply with an honest answer on whether we can help. No commitment.