MONDARIZ - Water
(Mondariz water products is a brand of Vichy Catalan Group)
Mondariz Natural Mineral Water.
Constant taste with the same components over time, elimination of unpleasant tastes originating from the shallow layers of the soil, deep natural springs that give the greater transparency to the water and waters with the greatest mineral content
Description:
Aguas de Mondariz provides a wide range of glass bottles that go back to the 19th century modernist features, period of greatest splendor of Mondariz, and offers many distinguished advantages in logistics as well as in distribution.
The implementation of the new format will be carried out in a progressive way, and for some time the new bottle will co-exist with the previous glass format.
Mondariz Natural Mineral Sparkling Water.
Mondariz sparkling water offers a fresh tactile sensation, with a silky taste in the mouth that evolves in an elegant way, with small bubbles that make it pleasant and easy to drink.
Description:
Well-balanced water, of noble origin, medicinal mineral, originating from the subsoil of old granite that has a golden brightness and improves its crystal clear transparency, of a fine and pleasant texture.
History of Mondariz
The history of Mondariz revolves around the exploitation of its minero-medicinal waters. There are documents that relate Mondariz with the ancient Roman village of Búrbida and indicate that the ancient inhabitants of Sobroso Castle were well aware of the existence of these waters and used them in installations that were destroyed during the Battle of Uclés (12th century).
The resurgence of these waters (in the 19th century) is chiefly due to Mr. Domingo Blanco Lage, a physician from Mondariz who observed that his patients from the village cured their skin ailments by using these waters. He then used the waters for therapeutic purposes in his professional career.
The years of great splendour however arrived through the intervention of Mr. Enrique Peinador Vela and his family. These waters obtained the category of water for public use in the year 1873 and this mineral water has been bottled ever since 1877 (the plant was then situated in a separate building next to the spring).
For many years, our activity has been carried out in parallel to that of the Spa called Balneario de MONDARIZ, which is the most modern Spa therapy centre of Galicia, and is located in the Tea (river) valley.
Over time, important personalities from the last century such as Isaac Peral and Echegaray, Arniches, Primo de Rivera, Castelao, W. Fernández Flórez, Castelar, etc. enjoyed the therapeutic beneficial effects of the waters from Mondariz.
“This is not a Spa: it is a Water Palace” said the Nobel Prize winner José de Echegaray when he discovered the salubrious effects of the waters of Mondariz”
Mondariz Awards
Throughout its history Aguas de Mondariz has obtained international acknowledgements for the quality and excellence of its water, accolades that have made it the official provider of the Spanish Royal House in the 19th and 20th centuries.
International Acknowledgements
- Barcelona World Exhibition
- Brussels World Exhibition
- Paris World Exhibition
- Madrid World Exhibition
- Geneva World Exhibition
- Baden International Exhibition
- London World Exhibition
- Amsterdam World Exhibition
- Antwerp International Exhibition
- Milan World Exhibition
- Seville World Exhibition
- Madrid Great Commercial & Industrial Competition
- Provider of the Spanish Royal House, 1888, HM Queen María Cristina
- Provider of the Spanish Royal House, 1924, HM King Alfonso XIII
Superior Taste Award (ITQI) – The International Taste and Quality Institute
“Ours is the first company in the world to achieve the highest award given by the iTQi of Brussels for six consecutive years”
For the sixth year in a row, we have achieved the maximum score (3 gold stars) at theSuperior Taste Award, a prize given by the International Taste & Quality Institute (iTQi) of Brussels. This award recognizes the Superior Taste and excellence of our products and reaffirms our place as one of the best brands of mineral water in the world.
As in previous editions, our natural mineral waters, both sparkling and still, earned the classification of “exceptional”, which is only achieved with a score of over 90 points out of a possible 100. Our sparkling water garnered 94.1 points, surpassing other sparkling waters participating in the competition.
A blind taste test was carried out to evaluate the products which were presented with no labels or commercial containers so that the brands could not be identified by the judges, thus ensuring objectivity. A total of 120 renowned chefs and sommeliers from the most prestigious culinary and sommelier associations in Europe are in charge of the tasting. At each edition there are different tasting experts. All of the members of the jury have been selected for their unanimously recognized talent in guides such as the Michelin or Gault&Millau.
Our mineral water has become the top-rated water in the world, having achieved the maximum score given by the Superior Taste Award for six years running. Next year, if we earn this rating again, we will be granted the well-known Diamond Taste Award. That would make us the first company in the world to have won this invaluable award as well.
We now hold Two Crystal Taste Awards
This year’s Superior Taste Award joins other important acknowledgements awarded by the renowned ITQi of Brussels to Aguas de Mondariz. In May 2012, our sparkling mineral water obtained one of the most outstanding awards that a product can achieve worldwide, the Crystal Taste Award. A year earlier, in 2011, we received another Crystal thanks to our still mineral water. These awards make Aguas de Mondariz the first and only Spanish company to achieve this important award on two occasions (only those companies that achieve the maximum rating of 3 stars, over 3 consecutive years, are presented with the Crystal Taste Award for the quality, taste and excellence of the product they present).
International Institute of Taste and Quality of Brussels
The International Taste & Quality Institute (iTQi) of Brussels is an independent organisation formed by renowned chefs and sommeliers from different countries, which was created to analyse, judge and promote the best food and drink in the world. With this aim in mind, the Superior Taste Award was created, which has the purpose of distinguishing the best tastes and the finest products.
In this edition, a total of 1,239 products were presented for the awards, of which only 20% obtained the maximum mark of three stars, rating the product as “exceptional”.
The products presented are judged in a blind tasting, with no packaging or bottles, which ensures that the panel of judges cannot identify the brand they are evaluating at any time. The tasting is carried out by a group of reputed chefs and sommeliers belonging to the most prestigious culinary and sommeliers’ associations in Europe, who are renewed every year. Each of the members of the panel was selected for the unanimous acknowledgement of their talent in guides such as Michelin or Gault Millau.
Mondariz Medals
