Fiuggi – Sparking Natural Spring Water

I bought this water from my neighborhood Italian grocery store—where things aren’t the cheapest, but it’s worth shopping there because the experience is a positive one. It’s a carbonation-added spring water from Italy—it comes in a big (1 liter) green glass bottle with a timeless looking label. It looks like something I shouldn’t be able to afford. It’s fresh and clean, and the mineral taste is subtle. There’s a mineral analysis on the label, if those numbers mean anything to you. I looked for it on the worldwide search, and the first thing that came up was a website for the Ambasciatori Place Hotel, in Fiuggi—something of a spa, it seems. They offer floatation at the “Tangerine Spa”—though I’ll be floating right here, at home, after a liter or so of this. There is a whole page about the benefits of Fiuggi water and its specific uses and treatments for various ailments and preventions. They take it quite seriously. I’ve got to check my receipt to make sure this water didn’t cost me three hundred dollars… though it would be too late now, seeing how I’m drinking it. Notes on the label also tell us that it’s “ideal to accompany the best international cuisine.” That covers it! Oh, and I almost missed it… in the top, left corner it says: “For several centuries, Fiuggi has been the favourite water of artists like Michelangelo and Popes like Boniface VIII.” Impressive. Perhaps one day they will reprint the label to add: “As seen on rspeen.com.”

2.12.23