Single source · Italy
Acqua Santa di Chianciano
Sorgente Santa, Chianciano Terme, Tuscany
The liver spring of Chianciano, where Etruscans built a healing temple and Horace arrived on his doctor's orders. A thermal sulfate-calcic heavyweight with a doctor's note in its history.
Mineral analysis
Still, full-bodied, calcium-crisp with a dry, mineral finish, a tonic magnesium edge, and a silica glow.
Verified · official analysis ↗
- intense attack
- dry sulfate
- heavy minerality
Acqua Santa di Chianciano is a still water from Italy with 3433 mg/L total dissolved solids and carries 715 mg/L calcium, 173 mg/L magnesium and 25.5 mg/L sodium (published analysis).
Among the ten hardest waters in the catalog · pristine, untouched source · closest in profile to Vittel.
Type · The Personal Trainer
Find it in: High magnesium · High silica · Full body · Dry finish
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Common questions
- What does Acqua Santa di Chianciano taste like?
- Acqua Santa di Chianciano is a still water, full-bodied, clean and crisp, closing on a dry, mineral finish, with a bracing magnesium edge and a silica smoothness. It belongs to the Personal Trainer type in our sixteen-part typology, and the house tasting notes run intense attack, dry sulfate and heavy minerality. Its pH is acidic, which on the palate reads as a faintly sour edge.
- Is Acqua Santa di Chianciano good for you?
- Acqua Santa di Chianciano is a regulated bottled water and safe to drink. The published analysis shows an intensely mineral water at 3433 mg/L dissolved solids, with 173 mg/L of magnesium (over the taste line), 715 mg/L of calcium (a serious share of a day’s intake) and 32.7 mg/L of silica (over our glow line). Sodium sits at 25.5 mg/L, over the 20 mg/L low-sodium line.
- What minerals are in Acqua Santa di Chianciano?
- Acqua Santa di Chianciano carries calcium 715, magnesium 173, sodium 25.5 and potassium 6.2 mg/L over bicarbonate 842, sulfate 1840 and chloride 25.2 mg/L. Calcium leads the mineral profile with sulfate the main anion, at 3433 mg/L total dissolved solids. It also publishes 32.7 mg/L of silica, the beauty mineral.
- How much sodium is in Acqua Santa di Chianciano?
- Acqua Santa di Chianciano carries 25.5 mg/L of sodium. That is over the 20 mg/L line a low-sodium claim requires.
- Is Acqua Santa di Chianciano hard or soft water?
- By its calcium and magnesium, Acqua Santa di Chianciano works out to 2480 mg/L as calcium carbonate, which counts as very hard water. That is genuinely hard water, chalky on the tongue and quick to scale a kettle.
- Is Acqua Santa di Chianciano alkaline or acidic?
- No. Acqua Santa di Chianciano runs acidic at pH 6.5, so it reads as a faintly sour edge.
- Can you use Acqua Santa di Chianciano for baby formula?
- Probably not the first choice. Acqua Santa di Chianciano falls outside the German infant-formula guidance because sodium at 25.5 is over the 20 mg/L line and sulfate at 1840 is over the 240 mg/L line. Pick a still water that clears all three limits, boil and cool it before mixing, and ask your pediatrician.
- Is Acqua Santa di Chianciano still or sparkling?
- Acqua Santa di Chianciano is a still water, bottled without carbonation.
- Where does Acqua Santa di Chianciano come from?
- Acqua Santa di Chianciano comes from Sorgente Santa, Chianciano Terme, Tuscany in Italy, a single source.