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TheMineral Connoisseur

You read labels the way others read wine lists.

Calcium, magnesium, bicarbonate, sodium: to you these are not foreign words but tasting notes. You have one water for sport, one for the evening and one you tell nobody about. You know that a discount-store water can be better than the designer bottle, and you still sometimes buy the designer bottle.

• Label reader
• Several kinds at home
• Knows what bicarbonate does
• Mineral water as an indulgence

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A bicarbonate-rich mineral water with over 1,500 mg/l total mineralisation

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