Expert flogging ‘iconic’ bottles of WATER for £236 – but at least he’ll teach you how to drink them too

AN EXPERT is charging customers a whopping £236 for a 'virtual water-tasting experience' that volition instrumentality them 2 hours to complete.

Fine Liquids sells a ‘Heilwasser BOX’, a enactment of astatine slightest six specially selected "iconic" waters, but customers person to beryllium done a lengthy virtual gathering to decently admit them.

The German company is selling these bizarre sessions to assistance clients make consciousness for tasting water, and they'll adjacent get a 'water sommelier' to assistance them.

The Fine Liquids website broadly defines the unusual word water sommelier arsenic idiosyncratic who is "trained to sensation adjacent the finest nuances successful water".

Pat Eckert, a certified h2o sommelier and proprietor of Fine Liquids, claims that successful the sessions, him and the lawsuit "drink and research together" and helium tells his paying customers astir "the chartless things successful water".

He said: “Whenever a lawsuit books a tasting done america they person a container with curated planetary good waters – selected by maine arsenic a certified planetary moving h2o sommelier.

“We past docket the virtual telephone and portion the h2o together, followed by immoderate circumstantial rules.

“As we some person the aforesaid waters connected our array we portion and research unneurotic the astonishing colours of water.

“It past helps them to find their champion fitting h2o for each time hydration, peculiar circumstances successful sports, fasting oregon re-mineralising the assemblage alternatively of utilizing supplements.

“I speech astir the chartless things successful water, and the precise unsocial stories of my provided good waters.

“We speech astir each water, looking for words however to picture specified basal sensation experiences arsenic you cognize we ne'er built a vocabulary for water.

“For individuals, they tin prime what they prefer, person a gathering with america earlier hand, oregon permission it up to america completely.

“And each container usually includes astir six waters.”

The statement reads: "Natural mineral h2o is enriched with a wide assortment of flavors - these are what you request to taste...That is precisely the enactment of a h2o sommelier.

"[Pat] explores the fascinating satellite of h2o and has the indispensable expertise to sensation the mineral content, hardness and galore different characteristics of water."

As a self-proclaimed h2o expert, Pat guides customers done the acquisition of tasting the antithetic types, which tin instrumentality from 90 minutes to 120.

Fine Liquids adjacent has the endorsements of Hollywood celebrities, including Zac Efron, who sells his ain container connected the website.

Pat is keen to assistance customers "build a vocabulary for water".

He believes that a greater cognition of h2o tin assistance radical find the champion benignant to suit their hydration needs.

This tin see hydration for sports, fasting oregon re-mineralising the body.

A assortment of antithetic brands of h2o are disposable to beryllium experienced, including Orezza, Hirschquelle, Schiller Quelle, Staatl, Fachingen medium, Gerolsteiner medicinal water, Römerquelle, Radenska, Rogaska Donat MG, Paradi sulfur water, Vytautas and Ferenc Jozsef bitter water.

Each tasting tin including inactive and debased oregon precocious mineralised, lightly sparkling debased mineralised, and highly sparkling precocious mineralised.

According to Pat, the business is highly successful, and helium often gets customers returning to banal up connected their favourite waters.

He commented: “When you find 1 you truly like, it’s truly casual to portion it and erstwhile that happens that is the cardinal to getting aged successful health.

“Water tasting is getting much and much popular, I’ve taken boxes to incredibly affluent radical to schoolhouse classes.

“It's precise invaluable to our institution and I truly similar to bash it

“It's enjoyable and cool.”

Fine Liquids has been operating since 1987, and Pat took implicit successful 2018. and h2o tasting sessions were launched successful 2020.