I suspect it's a byproduct of the embargoes between the two species. The geography is simple: look through telescope, reproduce observations. The ale is more complex.
There's probably more than one kind of Romulan ale. Much like how humans have thousands of kinds of wine, over a dozen kinds of Tequila, and so many kinds of beer.
If you want to program a replicator pattern of something, you need the item. Since Romulan ale was illegal, nobody wanted to admit to making a replicator pattern in this matter. Several people probably tried though. But since it was illegal to actually have the real stuff, the attempt was probably limited, and imperfect. There's another Romulan beverage that suffers this issue as well, as mentioned in "In the pale moonlight".
Since there was an embargo, it was probably difficult to get different varieties and vintages, which meant that any attempts at making the ale would probably be composites at best. Imagine if the Vulcans tried to recreate human wine, but had very little access to the real stuff, and did not have access to a wide variety, and were trying to recreate a single beverage from only a dozen small samples. The result would probably taste like a mixture of red and white wine that you could tell was synthetic. Hypothetically.
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