Tag: sustainability

A distillery does not have "a water supply." It has five, and their specifications actively contradict each other — the calcium that feeds fermentation ruins a bottling, and the ultrapure water that protects a boiler would eat a condenser. Only one of the five ends up in the glass, and it is by volume the smallest of them all.

A blending water carries two burdens of proof — that it is pure enough to disappear into a spirit, and that making it did not cost the watershed it came from. Here are the certifications that stand behind each claim — ISO 22000, HACCP, the AWS water-stewardship standard, and India's mandatory BIS and FSSAI marks — and how a trade buyer reads them.