{"id":7441,"date":"2019-05-23T22:43:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pineo.cat\/blog\/news\/pineo-voted-the-tastiest-water-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2019-05-28T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T12:06:08","slug":"pineo-voted-the-tastiest-water-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pineo.cat\/en\/blog\/water-en\/pineo-voted-the-tastiest-water-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Pineo voted the tastiest water in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2><strong>The Fine Water Taste &amp; Design Award 2019 &#8211; Pineo won gold<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;The fine Waters Taste &amp; Design Awards&#8221; are presented every 2 years.<br \/>\nAfter the 2017 edition in Shanghai, the competition took place ithis year n the Swedish capital Stockholm in the Sprit Museum on April 23, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Pineo was nominated together with 50 other top brands of water from all over the world. Five judges, consisting of water connoisseurs and water sommeliers blindly assessed the various brands of water and gave individual points. <strong>Pineo won gold in the top category of water with a low mineral content (less than 250 mg)<\/strong> without added carbon dioxide. Pineo shares this first place with Bambito water from Panama.<br \/>\nThe largest water bottlers from all over the world participated. Water from Canada, Norway, Panama, Spain, USA, Italy, Australia, Hungary, Peru, Chili, Greece, France, Japan, Russia, South Africa, etc &#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7353\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7353\" class=\"wp-image-7353 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pineo.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/water-taste-awards-e1558513963206.jpg?_t=1559045153\" alt=\"Water Taste Award 2019\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water Taste Award 2019<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Pineo already received a &#8220;Sehr Gut&#8221; award for tastiest water from the German consumer association in 2008. Pineo was the only water without taste deviations (Stifftung Warentest).<\/p>\n<p>The Pineo bottle was previously awarded the international Red Dot Design Prize.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pineo.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/jury-proeft.jpg\" alt=\"The judges at the water taste awards in Stockholm\" width=\"1369\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pineo.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/jury-proeft-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pineo.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/jury-proeft-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pineo.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/jury-proeft-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pineo.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/jury-proeft-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pineo.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/jury-proeft-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pineo.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/jury-proeft-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.pineo.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/jury-proeft-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pineo.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/jury-proeft-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.pineo.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/jury-proeft.jpg 1369w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1369px) 100vw, 1369px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>The international judges<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Rita Palandrani:<\/strong><br \/>\nBorn in Sardinia where people live longer (blue zone). Sardinia is known for its ancient sacred springs and fountains. Rita Palandrani is a water sommelier (ADAM &amp; SISS), an archaeologist and holds a master&#8217;s degree in classical languages. She is deeply passionate about the many facets of water and surprised at the variety of water sources in Italy. As an employee of the Italian Ministry of Culture, she specializes in the history of water. She is currently living in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeanette Fili :<\/strong><br \/>\nJeanette is a water sommelier (Fine Waters Academy) and founder of Minvino, the first watermark to enrich water with minerals to have a perfect match with different wine categories. She is convinced that one type of water cannot perfectly match different types of wine. After all, water is much more than a thirst quencher to her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Mascha:<\/strong><br \/>\nFounder of Fine Waters and co-founder of the Fine Water Society. Position: Water is niet gewoon water, water wordt bepaald door zijn terroir net als wijn. Michael is the author of the book &#8220;Fine Waters &#8211; a connoisseur&#8217;s Guide to the world Most distictive Bottled Waters&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Tanousis :<\/strong><br \/>\nCo-founder and co-owner of Aqua Amore, the only wholesaler specializing in water in Great Britain, Aqua Amore. He cooperated in a study on pairing of water and wine. He is also a water sommelier, graduated from the Doemen&#8217;s Academy. His ambition is to publish a taste lexicon about water in which mineral taste in the mouth can reveal the taste of water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam Wu:<\/strong><br \/>\nSam is a water sommelier (Doemen\u2019s Academy) and lives in Singapore. He has a master&#8217;s degree in sustainable energy and a bachelor&#8217;s degree in environmental engineering. At the beginning of 2019, he founded the first bottled water distribution company in Singapore. He selects the best water in the world to sell. His goal is to change the perception among the population that &#8220;water is water&#8221;, and, moreover, to disprove the erroneous marketing slogan that purified water is the best option.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWater is not just water. The terroir determines the taste, the minerals and properties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[150,152,153,154,151],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pineo named the tastiest water in the world - Pineo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"International Fine Waters Taste &amp; Design Awards 2019 were awarded. Sommeliers gave Pineo artesian water a gold rating. 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