You have heard of good wine. Now meet fine water.

I recently spent 90 minutes to look at six very serious people to taste 107 varieties of mineral water.

Each container was hidden under a fabric bag, its content distributed small payments in wine glasses. The judges made and looked at thoughtfully in the average distance. They threw excess into buckets at their feet and joked on the need for a bathroom. They gave each water a score between 90 and 100, in a Robert Parker style.

Comparison with the drying of painting may seem obvious. But like a Magic eye Display, the shades of fine water become clear if you spend enough time with it.

The fine water – The favorite term of its full -growth framework of enthusiasts – looks as much like this bottle of plastic water in your tutor that Château d’Yquem is in Gatorade. The taste is distinct for a place, rich in minerals which he picked up when he traveled on the surface of the earth. The crowd of fine water avoids giants as Perrier And Acqua Panna, both held by Nestlé. Fine water has a better story.

April tasting winners, which is part of the ninth annual Beautiful waters The prices of taste and design in Atlanta included snow based on fusion, which had been filtered through the Peruvian volcanic rock, and the deep waters which had been inflated to 80 miles off South Korea. There was water collected in fillets hanging in a misty Tasmania pine forestand a brand of Texas prevented from lithium called Madwater.

Like coffee and beer, natural water benefits from a third wave, especially among the the generation of alcohol projection Zwho has Built his palate On Seltzers like Lacroix and seeks to go up. He also gained ground among the crowd of well-being, which has become more and more skeptical Municipal tap water and water purified in plastic bottles.