opinionated alchemist

I have promised in one of my last posts to review the new (?) San Pellegrino grapefruit in a Paloma. This is pretty much THE drink to try, when it comes to grapefruit sodas... So I rigged for my bottle of Cuervo Reserva de la Familia blanco, took one well chilled Pellegrino grapefruit and even made a nice salt rim with Maldon sea salt... Unfortunately it was not very successful... It weren't the vegetal aromas highlighted in the tequila; but the blanco tasted unusually savory. But not very pleasant. I even didn't added lime juice, as I thought, that Pompelmo contained enough juice (unusual high fruit content for a soda). I was right. If this unusual result happened with the ultra smooth Cuervo Reserva de la Familia - it will result into an even more disastrous drink with rougher tequilas...   That doesn't make this soda bad. I welcome the high quality approach of Pellegrino with no artificial ingredients in their products and always a high fruit content. It just means, that...

San Pellegrino doesn't only produce and market Italian mineral water. They also sell some interesting sodas. It is long time that I have seen the last time their traditional sodas like chinotto or San bitter. I kinda liked always the oddness - though also found, that they were kind off tough sells. Since quite a while, you can find the orange, blood orange and lemonade sodas in the shelves in supermarkets across Dubai. In a time, when most beverage producers use E number ingredients, as it would be a lost art, it is quite refreshing to see Pellegrino to avoid most artificial ingredients. They have also to use some preservatives - but other than that they are even using normal sugar instead of HFCS! The flavor? Blood orange was until now my favorite... it doesn't really taste as fresh blood orange... But it also doesn't taste artificial. All three have also a pithy bitterness , which I quite like. Today then I found a new one... Pompelmo. Truth has to be told: I miss read it...