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Meet Martin Riese, A Water Sommelier

"Because water is not just water."

Oct 4, 2016 Words By Sim Wie Boon
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Are you all about that H2O life?

Water sommelier and advocate Martin Riese definitely is as he aims to spread the goodness of the most important beverage in this planet. 

"People always think that there is no value to water and what motivates me that I want to give water a value," says Martin. 

The head of Los Angeles's Patina Restaurant Group—which sports at 45-page water menu—he has made it his life's mission to taste, analyse, judge and ultimately promote the many different flavours of waters that we've been missing out on.

"When I drink water, I look for a distinguish taste in the water," he says. 

Part of a very small pool of water sommeliers around the world (yes there's more of them), follow his journey from his home to his restaurant to a one of a kind water competition and trade show in Guangzhou, China in the video above. 

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