Dear Friends,
Call me crazy, but this may be the best food product I’ve tasted
this year and it tastes like nothing.
Well, the very reason it tastes like nothing makes it taste like
everything – let me explain.
I’m going to have to ask you to stay with me on this one as it will
require a certain dose of faith on your part but I suppose that’s
what I ask of you every day (so this isn’t that unusual). If you are
into the purest products for body and soul, this is a revolutionary
stance on the most basic element of human existence but it will
require a broad bandwidth of support to make it prosper (it's too darn
expensive for them to produce so they need support). This is one of
the more important food or wine products we’ve offered in a while so
here goes...
In a world where we are confronted by a multitude of pollutants on a
24/7 basis, from the air we breath to the electromagnetic/microwave
onslaught that surrounds us to the scented detergent and dryer sheets
that slather our clothes with immune destroying artificial fragrance
(are room air fresheners like Glade the next tobacco or asbestos
lawsuit?) any chance we have to purify our body should be taken
seriously. I’m certainly no expert on world-wide toxins but I am
confronted on a daily basis with the agrarian/vinous aspect of
chemicals and their affect on the land and the families that farm it.
With that, let me present the purest (and one of the most expensive)
waters on earth:
Cape Grim.
This water is so pure, even the ice you place in your glass will
pollute it.
From a remote corner of Tasmania that lays claim to the cleanest air
and water on earth, the Cape Grim peninsula is untouched by human
interaction and the atmosphere we create for over 10,000 miles of open
sea (the largest sea influenced distance on earth). Due to weather
patterns and one of the rainiest/coldest climates in the world (the
Olympic Peninsula is nothing compared to Cape Grim – the name Grim
wasn’t stamped on this rocky, nearly uninhabitable outcropping for
nothing), the natural rainwater and resulting soil in this region are
supposedly the world’s purest. In one of the most unique weather
occurrences on earth, the clouds that dump a teeming mess on this site
travel undisturbed by land interaction all the way around the world
from South America.
If you thought foodies were serious about the next wasabi, the owners
of Cape Grim are fanatical - they are out to convince the world that
the city and bottled water you’ve been drinking is causing your body
to revolt in a slow and steady decline over decades of assault (more
or less). This may sound morbid but they may be on to something. Water
is one of the only essential components of human existence and it
makes up the vast majority of our body. If your base elemental make-up
is polluted from the core, everything else may be askew in a domino
affect that takes place over a lifetime. I’m not sure if they’ve
done studies on health and well-being from consuming Cape Grim on a
regular basis but I do know one thing – this water tastes fabulous.
You actually taste the purity and it’s almost as though you’ve
never actually tasted clean water. You can’t compare this to the
myriad of mineral waters on the market (regardless of price, still or
sparkling) as they are flavored by their mineral composition and place
of origin. Cape Grim has almost no composition except pure molecules
of hydrogen and oxygen. It is like drinking pure oxygen replacement
for the body.
Collected from the pure rain water that falls on the Cape and
collected without human interaction or interaction from air, it is
bottled in glass to retain the purity and to avoid plastic and the
leeching effect that is possible (locals may choose to have it bottled
in sterile plastic bottles but they will not export them). Each bottle
lists on the back the particulate content at the time of
“harvesting” between 0-600 (0 is impossible and even 100 is nearly
impossible). The bottle I tasted last week had a particulate reading
of 183 (they also list typical city water particulate readings, as an
example between 5,000-10,000 in Sydney and nearly 50,000 in Shanghai
– makes you a little distressed). The PH is almost always an ideal 6
and the nitrate readings are nearly imperceptible (I believe my bottle
was .002). I have a slight preference for the lightly sparkling
version as it is so refreshing that it makes you forget about beer,
wine or anything else for a while but both still and sparkling are a
revelation and a nicely chilled treat at anytime of the day (there are
Cape Grim groupies Down Under that claim the sparkling version is a
mystical cure for a hangover but I have no evidence of this).
From Cape Grim: “Rain is nature's main way of cleaning the air. The
air purity at Cape Grim (N.West Tasmania) is recognized by both
governments and scientists as being the cleanest /purest air on Earth.
Cape Grim is located North of Antarctica and receives air that has
travelled 16,000 kilometers across nothing but the freezing Arctic
Ocean only to reach the warmer land and turn into rain. On average it
rains 187 days per year and it’s cold. You wouldn't want to live
there, but the water is worth bottling. Cape Grim bottled water is the
only bottled rain water in the world, clean enough to be approved by
the Health Departments of the USA, EU, Australia and Japan. Cape Grim,
Tasmania, Australia is identified by the Australian Government's
Scientific & Research Organization (CSIRO), as having the cleanest air
on Earth. Cape Grim bottled water is cleaner/purer than any mineral
water or spring water. In fact it is so pure it cannot even be used
for the production of beer. To ensure the purest water quality, the
rainwater is only harvested on days of the absolute highest air
quality.”
My only reservation with offering this was the transport of the water
from Tasmania to Seattle but I attempted to offset the transport
emissions with a large carbon footprint donation that I did not
include in the price (I didn’t think it was fair for you to pay for
the offset). If the water is popular enough, maybe Cape Grim will help
pay for this offset in the future but, for now, I’m willing to foot
the bill for this initial shipment only. If you want to make a
donation to the carbon footprint offset fund, let Melisa know (but
it’s not required or expected of anyone - I’d rather have you just
try the water).
This water was recently rated among the best in the world by Fine
Waters with a retail price of $12/bottle. It retails for around
$7.50-8.50 in Australia so I’m confident our price is among the
lowest in the world for both still and sparkling. In my mind, if I'll
pay $10 for a good bottle of Touraine, I’d happily pay $6.99 for
this.
For more information, please see their web site:
http://capegrim.com.au/VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED as a unique foodstuff that needs to be tasted
to be believed:
Cape Grim Natural Water (still) 750ml - $6.99
Cape Grim Natural Water (sparkling) 750ml - $6.99
Please limit initial orders to two cases/each water (24 bottles of
each).
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