The Spa Baron

Sparkling, full-bodied, silky and round. The grand hotel of water types, warm-blooded and faintly saline.

This is the sodium bicarbonate facies at full volume, the classic soda spring, well past the 250 mg/L body line and usually carbonated by the earth itself. Sodium gives the silk, bicarbonate the roundness, geology the fizz.

Vichy Catalan and Borjomi hold court here, springs that entire spa towns grew up around. Serve them with food that can hold a conversation.