Gerolsteiner Natural Sparkling Mineral Water
The volcanic Eifel.
Germany’s great table sparkling, and the reference for what a mineral water can do at dinner: two thousand five hundred and twenty-seven milligrams per litre, drawn up through volcanic rock, carbonate-dominant and deeply structured. Most people have met it. Almost nobody has read it.
That familiarity is precisely why it belongs on the wall. Set beside Hallstein at eighty-four, it makes the spectrum legible in a single sitting — and it is very good, which is the other reason.
Familiar to many. Read here, new again.
We do not score. We read. The Reading is how the house locates this bottle — four axes, written on the four petals of the mark.
The Reading™
NOSE mineral
ARC lively
WEIGHT carbonate
STAY firm
One to four petals, quiet to pronounced. A Reading is a location, not a grade.
The bottle — 750 ml · sparkling · 2,527 mg/L · Volcanic Eifel, Germany.
Read in — the Stem Zero Masterglass. The bowl gathers what little there is and lifts it to the nose before the first sip.
Serve — around 50°F. Cold enough to hold the bead, never so cold the minerality goes numb.
