(VinePair) - If something tastes like wine, smells like wine, but isn’t made from grapes, is it wine?

Ava Winery, a biotech company in San Francisco that (despite the name) doesn’t own any traditional winemaking equipment, says yes. At least, in a chemical composition sense of the word.

“I think the most accurate description (for the final product) will be ‘wine’ because it is chemically identical to wine,” Alec Lee, co-founder of Ava Winery, told VinePair.

Ava Winery’s product is literally chemically identical to wine. Each bottle is a curated mixture of amino acids, acids, sugars, ethanol and organic compounds in water that matches the mixture found in a traditional, grape-based wine. After just a few months of testing and tweaking, Lee and co-founder Mardonn Chua have created a synthetic wine that fools 90 percent of people in blind taste tests, Lee said.

“It was pretty quick to develop a half-decent product,” Lee said. “But the remaining bits of perfection will take an unknown amount of time and work.”