(Decanter) - A company in San Francisco has claimed it can create wine without using grapes or fermentation - only with molecules. 

Ava Winery claimed it has created synthetic wine in a laboratory from amino acids, acids, sugars, volatile organics and ethanol.

Its co-founders said they decided to begin the project after seeing one of the California wines that won in the 1976 Judgement of Paris tasting.

‘The idea was inspired by the Chateau Montelena 1973,’ Ava co-founder Alec Lee told Decanter.com.

‘My co-founder Mardonn saw the wine on display in Napa and thought it was a shame that only a handful of people today know how it tastes. The idea was what if we could recreate it so that everybody could experience it?’

The name Ava Winery deliberately plays on the term American Viticultural Area, and started ‘with the goal of making the great vintages accessible to all