Water is not everywhere the same water, as the gourmet restaurant trade, especially, is well aware. Its patrons are offered a vast choice of trendy, costly thirst quenchers, on occasion even from a separate water list featuring such enticing names as Bling H2o, Finé, 10thousand BC, Fiji or Cloud Juice. Whereas for nutritionists the primary consideration for a human water household is an adequate supply of clean drinking water, the more select variants of a healthy thirst quencher offer something extra. Apart from their high quality and purity, mineral waters in the premium segment can exert a fascination on account of their origin and exciting history that persuades (not just) stars to reach for the designer water bottle.
Madonna swears by pure Norwegian glacier water from VOSS that even with its packaging forgoes unnecessary ballast. The uncluttered design of the sleek glass bottle is the work of Neil Kraft, formerly a designer with Calvin Klein. With just 22 mg of solutes per liter, Voss is among the world’s purest waters. The source is thoroughly protected from contaminants, lying under the rocks and ice of a glacier in Norwegian wastes. Like many others of its kind, this fine water is of artesian origin. Hence it reaches the surface of it own accord and without the need for the use of any technical aids. Voss is mainly found on the water lists of top restaurants and luxury hotels.
For more than 1200 years the Shuzenji thermal springs have been a famous retreat for many of Japan's intellectuals. / The design of the sleek VOSS glass bottle is the work of Neil Kraft, formerly a designer with Calvin Klein. / Bling H2O does all honor to its name, going all out for glamour.“Pop culture in the Bottle”
Bling H2O does all honor to its name, going all out for glamour by coming in a frosted glass blend of wine and Champagne bottle featuring Swarovski crystals. The contents consist of prize-winning, nine-times filtered Tennessee water, at quite a high price, however, with a 0.75-liter bottle costing almost 50 euros. Bling H2O founder and Hollywood producer Kevin G. Boyd knows precisely how to attract takers for such exquisite and exclusive water. As a refresher for those in the public eye, Bling H2O is naturally always in evidence at such prestigious mammoth TV spectaculars as the MTV Video Music Awards or the Emmy Awards ceremony, being lauded in its own advertising as “Pop Culture in the Bottle”.
Bottled directly at source, the superb water Fiji comes with slightly less blowing of trumpets and promises a hint of exotic South Seas flair with every drop you drink. As you would guess from the name, this comes from the Fiji Islands that promise especially clean water, being located far away from the nearest continent and any industrial pollutants. In the USA, especially, Fiji, dispensing with a glass bottle and filled in PET bottles, has emerged as a sought-after trendy water. It is especially rich in silica and hence every drop is good for strengthening bones, skin, hair and fingernails. Prominent drinkers of Fiji include Mary J. Blige, Janet Jackson and Halle Berry.
Finé water is known for its minimalist style.Of Monks and the Tears of God
In the 8th century there was a celebrated Buddhist monk called Kobodaishi, runs the legend, who during his hikes around Mount Berg Fuji struck a source with his stick that promptly produced the purest spring water from the depths of the mountain. This place is still recognized as the origin of the Shuzenji Hydrothermal spring from which the superb water Finé originates. Utterly isolated from external influences and contamination by a pressure chamber, Finé is regarded as an especially pure mineral water. The thermal water has a constant temperature of 13° Celsius making it better able to absorb the mineral substances of the surrounding volcanic rock.
Also known as “Tears of God”, the water produced as Cloud Juice originates from dizzy heights. This consists of pure rainwater falling over King Island, an island between the South coast of Australia and Tasmania with unusually pure air and captured there for bottling. Its oceanographic location plus ideal weather (including strong West winds and precipitation) bless King Island with rainwater that is 400 times purer than the World Health Organization standard for drinking water. Every bottle contains 9750 drops of untreated “cloud juice“.
Whatever you choose, savour every drop!
