Mineral water is in vogue

The sommeliers enthuse that it is “harmoniously mineralized” or “neutralizes the tastebuds”. And yet they are not praising a wine, but the Germans’ favourite non-alcoholic drink: water. Or to be more precise: natural mineral water that once began as rainwater and slowly seeped through layers of rock over the course of centuries. It is still bottled directly at the spring under strict controls. There is a great variety of German mineral water – more than 500 different waters bubble up from shale, volcanic rocks and other geological formations throughout the country. On average, everyone in Germany drinks 137 litres of mineral water a year.