There’s water water everywhere at Claridge’s

Claridge’s is delighted to announce the launch of its new Water Menu. With a growing international guest list the hotel has become increasingly aware of requests for different kinds of water – everybody has a favourite.

Ever striving to be the best and to offer its guests both the best and the best choice available, Claridge’s thoroughly researched the water market and now offers a choice of over thirty of the best waters in the world.

Claridge’s Food & Beverage Director, Renaud Grégoire said of this project, “Water is becoming like wine. Every guest has an opinion and asks for a particular brand. At Claridge’s we try to be ahead of our guest’s requests and offer the very best choice available. I am excited about this menu because it is something quite new. It is a fresh service for our guests and because of the hard work that went into the research I am confident that we have created something very special.”

Many of the new waters are of course from Britain. Belu, is filtered through layers of ancient rock in the remote hills of Shropshire. Elsenham Artesian Spring Water, is decades old and bottled at source in a deep chalk confined aquifer in Hertfordshire. Llanllyr, a very soft water, has been in the same family’s hands since 1720 and comes from sources deep below certified organic fields in West Wales.

Good water makes good whisky and from the home of whisky comes, Speyside Glenlivet, alkaline water from Ballindalloch, Scotland. Claridge’s new house water is Tau, which means ‘silent’ in Welsh and is a pleasant, easy to drink water with a low mineral content.

From Europe, alongside Evian, Perrier, Badoit, San Pellegrino, Panna, Voss and Volvic Claridge’s introduces Wattwiller a French spring water discovered by the Romans, its source still surrounded by a large swathe of protected woodland. In 1554 Michelangelo wrote about the curative effects of Fiuggi from Italy. It has a low mineral content, gentle carbonation, an almost neutral pH factor and is very popular at the Vatican. OGO is called oxygen water, as it contains 35 times more oxygen than natural water and is incredibly refreshing and revitalising, especially when tired and dehydrated after a long flight, or a late night.

Glaciana is glacier spring water from the small village of Osa at the inland end of the Hardanger Fjord in Norway. It is remarkably pure with exceptionally low mineral content, perhaps the lowest found in any bottled water in the world. Iskilde means ‘cold spring’ in Danish and was discovered in 2001 in the Mosso conservation area.

The exact age of the water isn’t known but it is believed to date back as far as the last ice age. Waters from the rest of the world include Finé artesian water from Japan. Its bottle is modelled on a traditional sake one and it is a perfect companion to sushi, sashimi and caviar.

Waiwera Mineral Water was first bottled and sold in the 1870’s, when people travelled many miles to ‘take the waters’ at Waiwera Thermal Resort in New Zealand. On the other side of the country the Rotomo Hills being totally free of industry - and very nearly of people - serve as a pristine source for Antipodes which has a soft taste and low mineral content.

The third New Zealand water is 420 Volcanic. Sourced from a spring at the bottom of an extinct volcano 420 Volcanic bubbles to the surface through 200 metres of age old volcanic rock. Cloud Juice is rainwater, bottled at one of the most remote places in the world, King Island, Tasmania. With the Cape Grim Weather Station nearby King Island enjoys the cleanest air in the world and the cleanest rainwater!

The Canadian Berg from Newfoundland, is pure fresh ice berg water from one of the cleanest and unspoiled regions of the world, formed thousands of years ago, the berg water is totally unsullied. Lauquen spring water begins as ice and rain in the Andes and travels upwards under its own pressure, emerging in a hollow in San Carlos Barilouche, Patagonia. Locked in an icy vault for over 10,000 years, 10 Thousand BC glacier water is from British Columbia, from an area which is strictly environmentally protected and rich in natural resources.

Extraordinarily rare, is the Mahalo Deep Sea Water from Hawaii. Deep sea water was originally freshwater icebergs which melted thousands of years ago and being of a different temperature and salinity to the sea water around them sank to become a lake at the bottom of the ocean floor.

Bottled at source to maintain its purity and freshness, Just Born Spring Drops, is from the Nilgris Mountains in India. It is naturally filtered through the mountain layers and emerges in an unspoiled ecologically protected environment.

Claridge’s Water Menu will be available for its guests to choose from in November. There is of course one more choice to add - a glass or a jug of old fashioned London tap water, which of course any guest is welcome to, at any time, free of charge.

For further information, visit Claridges.co.uk