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I always feel weird about "taste testing" bottled waters because to me, all water tastes like...water. Sure there are subtle variations that are borne out of where the water originates, if it was bottled at the source, and even the type of packaging it's in, but to me, these are normally undetectable.
What I'm trying to say is you should most definitely take my "review" here with a trace amount of sodium.
I wasn't sure how to feel about Tasmanian Rain because it's touted as bottled rain water. Where I live, if you drink rain water, you'll probably erode the lining of your intestines (I live in Los Angeles). However, the Tasmanian Rain water is collected in Tasmania Australia, "The Edge of the World," where the air is the purest in world. Thats' quite a claim, but the promise is that the air has been scientifically proven to be the purest in the world because it crosses three oceans by the winds of the Antarctic and never touches the ground before it's collected.
Hey, if the Tasmanian Devil has that much energy, the water there must be good!
Tasmanian Rain comes in glass bottles that are shaped like wine bottles, already putting it into a luxury category simply by perception. Something that feels heavy and looks line a wine bottle is going to taste expensive, right? I am such a sucker for marketing, but I won't get into the whole discussion about the industry of bottled water as crafty marketing here.
I chilled one bottle and tried the first one at room temperature. This water is definitely a fancy "serving" water, not an "on-the-go" convenience bottled water, since drinking straight from a 750 mL glass bottle seems strange. At the risk of sounding like a heathen, as well as possibly chipping my two front teeth, I drank straight from the bottle. My friends, Tasmanian Rain water straight from that gorgeously labeled glass bottle tastes like...
...water.
Of course I eventually drank the whole bottle. No sense in letting it go to waste!
Next up was the chilled Tasmanian Rain. Because it was chilled, for some reason I felt compelled to pour it into a wine glass. I kid you not, I poured bottle water into a wine glass. Don't worry, though, I didn't swirl the glass. I did however, smell the water to see if there might have been some crisp oceanic scent from being carried across three oceans. It smelled like, you guessed it, nothing. I guess that's a good sign. I probably should have done the sniff test with the room temperature water as well, but, and I'm only guessing here, I bet it smells the same.
I drank the water, and it tasted crisp, refreshing, and very clean, but nothing overly impressed me. Then again, I was drinking water that had chilled in the refrigerator on a hot summer day, and perhaps I was expecting to be hit with some of that Antarctic wind.
I appreciate the fact that the water comes from the purest of air on the other side of the world, but I doubt I'd pay a premium over other bottled waters for Tasmanian Rain. All things equal though, I definitely don't mind drinking it.
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8-30-2007 @9:35AM Jon said... Large parts of Australia are deserts. Why is Australia exporting water? And why would anyone drink water that's been shipped thousands of miles across the world, when water is so readily available here?
What a ridiculous product.
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8-30-2007 @9:45AM Annie said... It's worse than ridiculous! It's plain stupid.
How clean is there atmosphere and rain going to be in the future of a world that continues to transport bottled water half way round the planet?
I'm not a dyed-in-the-wool greeny but even I wouldn't touch this tsuff with a bargepole!
Annie
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8-30-2007 @11:46AM Lori said... No comment on the water , but I will say I stayed in Tasmania in Nov. of 2000 and it's the most beautiful place I have ever been in my life...
It's one of a few countries where it's legal to grow opium poppies and we drove past many fields of them...
I wonder if the poppies have anything to do with the waters pureness...J/K...
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8-30-2007 @12:19PM jl said... bottled water can be filtered anywhere, by anyone so where do we think all the plastic and now glass should be shoved. I can see enviromentalists carrying water bought and harping about the demise of our world!! How much wasted energy goes into bottling water, how much pollution is rendered in running machinery making, filtering,bottling,waste pickup etc. is the human race really intelligent?
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8-30-2007 @3:01PM Mike G said... It's one of a few countries where it's legal to grow opium poppies and we drove past many fields of them...
FYI, that was licensed farmers growing opium poppies for the pharmaceutical industry -- it's strictly regulated.
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8-30-2007 @5:03PM Christopher said... You guys can say whatever you want about the water but it is expuisite. And when you guys have a dinner party and somebody asks for water and you bring them a bottle of dasani and they look at you wondering if you are seriously serving them cheap nasty water... I'll be over at my house serving them luxury imported water from halfway across the world. There needs to be more people like me around the world... searching for the best of the best.. and Tasmanian Rain is just that.
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8-30-2007 @5:03PM wintem01 said... I wonder if the poppies have anything to do with the waters pureness...J/K...
I wonder if the poppies have anything to do with them thinking they should sell "premium" water halfway around the globe.
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8-30-2007 @5:08PM Mel said... I'm shocked that you would even consider reviewing bottled water, let alone water transported half way across the world. The bottled water industry is a travesty and extremely harmful to the environment. Maybe if this company donated water or money to those areas they affect I would expect you to highlight them over others. Maybe you should write a post on "whole discussion about the industry of bottled water as crafty marketing here" for those readers who are not as well informed as commenters 1, 2, and 4.
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8-30-2007 @9:58PM Aaron said... Christopher... you are an idiot, and you can't spell.. jackass
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9-02-2007 @1:43AM Michael Cronin said... Interesting concept. One takes something provided by nature for free, collects and markets it, for a large profit.
There is only one problem. Demineralized water, Reverse Osmoses water and rain water have one thing in common. They lack minerals needed by ones body.
While I like the idea that it is free of contaminants, it would not be my first choice for drinking. But it would be great for washing ones car!
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8-31-2007 @3:43AM LillieFaerie said... Have you ever had Fiji water? It's a clip from my home, expensive, and still they buy it. My city water, even with a Britta filter tastes. I do use it in cooking and in teas and coffee, but if I want a glass of water, I will grab a bottle of water, and yes, bottles of water, different brands-from various locals taste different. There are 3 brands that I like the most, but one is too pricy to have too often Fiji, one we have to drive across 2 states (made it says from glacial ice) to get- much less pricy if I am headed that direction and finally one gathered and bottled 40 miles from here.
I'd like to taste Tasmanian rainwater, but I'd rather go to the rain and collect it on my tongue for the experience.
It's like coffee,or anything else not all brands are alike.
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9-01-2007 @12:55AM DRY$DALE said... While all waters are basically H2O, I like AuquaFina.
It is the only Pepsi product I like. I can't stand Dasani, the only Coke product I dislike. A puzzle for sure. Thing is THEY ARE BOTH DETROIT CITY WATER. Filtered differently, obviously! The two largest users of Michigan ground water are Nestle and Abso-pure. This all from a radio program about bottled water and how the bottles polute the environment. SOLUTION: Treated paper bottles that decompose in about 6 - 9 months. Remember paper milk bottles??? Plastic never leaves, what's the half life of plastic? 500 years? Glass, 5,000?
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9-01-2007 @2:38PM Wayne said... As 'The Water Doctor', our business specializing in Water Softening & Purification. (See aquathin.com for the best of the best!) Purchasing bottled water is crazy! Most consumers buy Spring Water which is just someones flowing well! It is NOT purified! Filtration is NOT purification! Unless the bottle states that it is "purified"... Beware!
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9-02-2007 @9:29AM Oberlin Riojas said... I have to respond to the post about the opium poppies. This person travels all the way to Tasmania and can only say how beautiful the poppies were, and perhaps, the water is so good because they are filtered through the poppies..Good grief! Maybe that's the cure all for everything. Maybe we should just eat the poppies and all of our troubles would go away. We could wash them down with the poppie water too. Is your middle name Daisy?
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9-03-2007 @1:33AM Sho said... Oberlin Riojas, you dorkus, this was a comment on an article about water. Even the poppies comment was superfluous. But exactly what do you expect from Lori? Perhaps a 10 page report on all the greatness of her trip would have stopped you from flaming her? Oh wait, I guess she could write a travel guide book of the Tasmania area.
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9-05-2007 @8:48AM lunapkitty said... I bet it would make an excellent bath. LMAO!!
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9-03-2007 @7:48PM Lydia said... Sorry, but if I want to drink water from Tasmania, I think I'd spend less by purchasing a ticket to Tasmania and having it there. Who benefits? People in the U.S. have little complain about. If you want no flavor, there's distilled water, available at Wal-Mart for about 69 cents/gallon. But this doesn't address the environmental impact of all those plastic jugs (unless you're using them as planters or plastic sculpture). Read http://www.organic-nature-news.com/drinking-water.html
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9-06-2007 @12:36PM ann said... I read lots of synicle remarks. If you think our water is clean, you should read more.
ann
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9-03-2007 @11:28PM shirley said... I know a man who watched as a bottled water company in Florida filtered it's "spring water" straight from a city water source through a charcoal filter and labled it as "spring water". We are stupid for buying drinking water. All we need is a good charcoal filter and if you want to put it in a bottle and label it as "rain water" go for it!
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9-04-2007 @3:32AM enemyofsocialdistortion said... thats such a lie.
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