Collection
Dry-finish waters (sulfate)
36 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 (from gypsum) and chloride outweigh the bicarbonate in milliequivalents, 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 (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 | Aqua Römer Medium Germany · sparkling | 1460 mg/L | 2300 |
| 4 | Saint-Antonin France | 1450 mg/L | 2440 |
| 5 | Velleminfroy France | 1400 mg/L | 2420 |
| 6 | Eptinger Switzerland | 1352 mg/L | 2222 |
| 7 | Adelbodner Switzerland | 1267 mg/L | 2137 |
| 8 | Stelpes Latvia | 1250 mg/L | 1950 |
| 9 | Contrex France | 1187 mg/L | 2032 |
| 10 | Vytautas Lithuania · sparkling | 989 mg/L | 7309 |
| 11 | Valser Switzerland · sparkling | 988 mg/L | 1889 |
| 12 | Aproz Switzerland · sparkling | 930 mg/L | 1650 |
| 13 | Tichė Lithuania | 834 mg/L | 1378 |
| 14 | Bad Dürrheimer Classic Germany · sparkling | 776.7 mg/L | 1731 |
| 15 | Förstina Naturell Germany | 640 mg/L | 1684 |
| 16 | Marzia Italy | 611 mg/L | 1372 |
| 17 | Mangaļi Latvia · sparkling | 455 mg/L | 2000 |
| 18 | San Pellegrino Italy · sparkling | 430 mg/L | 853 |
| 19 | Vittel France | 400 mg/L | 1084 |
| 20 | Saint-Amand France | 372 mg/L | 859 |
| 21 | Swiss Alpina Switzerland | 303 mg/L | 649 |
| 22 | Cristalp Switzerland | 240.7 mg/L | 718 |
| 23 | Vöslauer Austria | 228 mg/L | 709.93 |
| 24 | Lichtenauer Mineralwasser Pur Germany | 89.9 mg/L | 362 |
| 25 | Caldas de Monchique Portugal | 59 mg/L | 350 |
| 26 | Bonaqua Naturell Norway · sparkling | 48 mg/L | 252 |
| 27 | Hermis Lithuania | 17 mg/L | 1355 |
| 28 | Geraci Italy | 16 mg/L | 63 |
| 29 | Smeraldina Italy | 11.2 mg/L | 155 |
| 30 | Farris Norway · sparkling | 11 mg/L | 1400 |
| 31 | Ashbeck United Kingdom | 11 mg/L | 85 |
| 32 | Montcalm France | 10 mg/L | 32 |
| 33 | Abatilles France | 8 mg/L | 354 |
| 34 | Luso Portugal | 1.5 mg/L | 49 |
| 35 | Strathmore United Kingdom | 1 mg/L | 453 |
| 36 | Strathmore Sparkling United Kingdom · sparkling | 1 mg/L | 453 |