Chateldon Water Analysis:
| Balance | Light |
| Virginality | Superior |
| Minerality | Very High |
| Orientation | Acidic |
| Hardness | Very Hard |
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| Carbonation | Natural |
| TDS | 1,882 mg/l |
| ph factor | 6.2 |
| Hardness | 1,154 mg/l |
| Nitrate | 1 mg/l |
| Calcium | 383 mg/l |
| Magnesium | 49 mg/l |
| Sodium | 240 mg/l |
| Potassium | 35 mg/l |
| Silica | 21 mg/l |
| Bicarbonate | 2,075 mg/l |
| Sulfate | 20 mg/l |
| Chloride | 7 mg/l |
| Source: | Spring |
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| Country of Origin: | France |
| Region: | Auvergne |
| Place: | Chateldon |
| Established: | 1650 |
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| Status: | Non-Member of the Fine Water Society |
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This water has lots of everything — very high mineral content; whopping levels of bicarbonate, calcium, and sodium; and a healthy measure of prestige and pedigree. Chateldon is also very rare: Only 700,000 bottles of this naturally sparkling water are produced every year. If you cannot find it try Saint-Géron, which is very similar.
Chateldon has been bottled continuously since 1650, longer than any other water. The water was known for its healthful properties even earlier. Louis XIV enjoyed it enough to employ a special group known as les officiers du gobelet à cheval (“mounted officers of the goblet”) to bring the water to Versailles. Louis’s sun symbol still appears on bottles of Chateldon, which is known in France as la “Rolls” des eaux—the Rolls Royce of waters.