Collection
Dry-finish waters (sulfate)
73 waters where sulfate and chloride outweigh bicarbonate. Mineral, wine-dry, faintly bitter.
Most spring water is bicarbonate-dominant and finishes soft and round. This shelf is the other kind. Sulfate, dissolved out of gypsum, and chloride outweigh the bicarbonate, and the finish turns dry. A brut edge, faintly bitter in quantity, prized at the dinner table.
Ranked by sulfate content. The heavy hitters here, the gypsum-spring classics, are also calcium giants; dry and hard travel together.
| # | Water | SO₄ | TDS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Acqua Santa di Chianciano Italy | 1840 mg/L | 3433 |
| 2 | Hépar France | 1530 mg/L | 2513 |
| 3 | Ensinger Sport Medium Germany · sparkling | 1463 mg/L | 2583 |
| 4 | Ensinger Mineralwasser Germany | 1463 mg/L | 2580 |
| 5 | Aqua Römer Medium Germany · sparkling | 1460 mg/L | 2300 |
| 6 | Saint-Antonin France | 1450 mg/L | 2440 |
| 7 | Velleminfroy France | 1400 mg/L | 2420 |
| 8 | Eptinger Switzerland | 1352 mg/L | 2222 |
| 9 | Courmayeur Italy | 1351.8 mg/L | 2058.5 |
| 10 | Steinsieker Germany · sparkling | 1341 mg/L | 2381 |
| 11 | Adelbodner Switzerland | 1267 mg/L | 2137 |
| 12 | Stelpes Latvia | 1250 mg/L | 1950 |
| 13 | Contrex France | 1187 mg/L | 2032 |
| 14 | Alwa Germany | 1170 mg/L | 2014 |
| 15 | Überkinger Germany · sparkling | 1113 mg/L | 3086 |
| 16 | Crazy Water No. 4 USA | 1080 mg/L | 2450 |
| 17 | Vytautas Lithuania · sparkling | 989 mg/L | 7309 |
| 18 | Valser Switzerland · sparkling | 988 mg/L | 1889 |
| 19 | Carolinen Germany · sparkling | 950 mg/L | 1603 |
| 20 | Aproz Switzerland · sparkling | 930 mg/L | 1650 |
| 21 | Slavyanovskaya Russia · sparkling | 900 mg/L | 3500 |
| 22 | Tichė Lithuania | 834 mg/L | 1378 |
| 23 | Gura Căinarului Moldova · sparkling | 822.4 mg/L | 2230 |
| 24 | Bad Dürrheimer Classic Germany · sparkling | 776.7 mg/L | 1731 |
| 25 | Gize Canada | 692 mg/L | 1170 |
| 26 | Förstina Naturell Germany | 640 mg/L | 1684 |
| 27 | Marzia Italy | 611 mg/L | 1372 |
| 28 | Dobra Voda North Macedonia · sparkling | 500.4 mg/L | 1210 |
| 29 | Bonneval France | 496 mg/L | 1391 |
| 30 | Mangaļi Latvia · sparkling | 455 mg/L | 2000 |
| 31 | San Pellegrino Italy · sparkling | 430 mg/L | 853 |
| 32 | Darida Belarus · sparkling | 420 mg/L | 3450 |
| 33 | Vittel France | 400 mg/L | 1084 |
| 34 | Birutė Lithuania · sparkling | 375 mg/L | 2700 |
| 35 | Saint-Amand France | 372 mg/L | 859 |
| 36 | Insalus Spain | 340 mg/L | 634 |
| 37 | Peñaclara Spain | 323 mg/L | 672 |
| 38 | Swiss Alpina Switzerland · sparkling | 303 mg/L | 649 |
| 39 | Cristalp Switzerland | 240.7 mg/L | 718 |
| 40 | Vöslauer Austria | 228 mg/L | 709.93 |
| 41 | Topo Chico Mexico · sparkling | 180 mg/L | 630 |
| 42 | Beloka Water Australia | 141 mg/L | 587 |
| 43 | Arzni Armenia · sparkling | 102.5 mg/L | 1900 |
| 44 | Lichtenauer Mineralwasser Pur Germany | 89.9 mg/L | 362 |
| 45 | Vimeiro Original Portugal | 87 mg/L | 1012 |
| 46 | Caldas de Monchique Portugal | 59 mg/L | 350 |
| 47 | Plancoët France | 56 mg/L | 257 |
| 48 | Bad Liebenwerda Germany · sparkling | 55 mg/L | 92 |
| 49 | Bonaqua Naturell Norway · sparkling | 48 mg/L | 252 |
| 50 | Saskia Germany | 46.5 mg/L | 168 |
| 51 | Agua de Solares Spain | 37.2 mg/L | 372 |
| 52 | Puyehue Chile | 36.76 mg/L | 218 |
| 53 | Vellamo Finland | 27 mg/L | 519 |
| 54 | Sidi Harazem Morocco | 20 mg/L | 840 |
| 55 | Masafi United Arab Emirates | 19 mg/L | 150 |
| 56 | Hermis Lithuania | 17 mg/L | 1355 |
| 57 | Geraci Italy | 16 mg/L | 63 |
| 58 | Smeraldina Italy | 11.2 mg/L | 155 |
| 59 | Farris Norway · sparkling | 11 mg/L | 1400 |
| 60 | Ashbeck United Kingdom | 11 mg/L | 85 |
| 61 | Montcalm France | 10 mg/L | 32 |
| 62 | O'Tahiti French Polynesia | 10 mg/L | 206 |
| 63 | Chippewa Springs USA | 8.2 mg/L | 180 |
| 64 | Abatilles France | 8 mg/L | 354 |
| 65 | Poland Spring Sparkling USA · sparkling | 6.5 mg/L | 52 |
| 66 | Cape Karoo South Africa | 6 mg/L | 190 |
| 67 | Ozarka USA | 4.4 mg/L | 86.5 |
| 68 | aQuellé South Africa | 3 mg/L | 71 |
| 69 | Summit Spring USA | 2.4 mg/L | 59 |
| 70 | Bahia Morocco | 2 mg/L | 90 |
| 71 | Luso Portugal | 1.5 mg/L | 49 |
| 72 | Strathmore United Kingdom | 1 mg/L | 453 |
| 73 | Strathmore Sparkling United Kingdom · sparkling | 1 mg/L | 453 |