San Pellegrino Limonata is not just a soda. In fact, it's not a soda at all. It's is what happens when you take a lemon and add pure, Italian, age old, underground, natural sparkle. (A little legend doesn't hurt it either.)
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| On my desk at work from lunch. Saved for later. |
This is what I have to say about it - I LOVE IT! (And not just because it's from the Lombardy region of Italy. That is coincidental and not how my last name is spelled anyway.) The top of the can has a label over it. To keep it clean and void of sticky yuckiness. So if you need to just pop it open because you're dying of thirst and can't wait for a glass, you can feel confident that the fine people at San Pellegrino care about your protection from nasty germs and general traveling foulness. (These are the people after all, who make the highest quality handbags, shoes and sports cars. Of course they'd take a mere soda can to a new high-class level!)
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| I am utterly impressed by little things. (Remember this when you're Christmas shopping for me.) |
Seeing as I saved my lunchtime soda for later, I had access to glassware. And nice glassware at that. I thought my lemon glass would be a great complement for my limonata soda. (If you can ignore that the words on the glass are in French. Eh, it's all European. Good 'nuff.)
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| More special than you know. |
Why do I like this sparkling beverage so much? For starters, it's not just a common, syrupy soda. It is a sparkling mineral water beverage. Which means less sugar. The taste is tart and clean. As if you added freshly squeezed lemon juice directly to a glass of crisp, cold sparkling water. Most refreshing. And here's the back story on it: the type of water they use has naturally occurring carbonation. It originates from deep below the surface and when it comes in contact with limestone and volcanic rock on the way up, key minerals are added which creates some of the bubbly reaction. Rumor has it that in 1509, Leonardo da Vinci even went to the town of origin to sample this amazing, miraculous water. Not sure if all that's really true, but that's a heck of a good story!
It also comes in aranciata (orange) as well. In CT I can get it at the local grocery store. (Thanks to all the eye-talians up there.) So if you're interested, look there first. Here, I haven't found it quite as readily yet. I stumbled upon individual cans in a nearby deli and in the 6 oz bottles at Wegmans. I'm on the hunt to find the six pack of cans still, but I have full confidence that someone sells it within a five mile radius of my condo. I'll let you know when my treasure hunt is over. (Or I'll just buy a bunch in CT and drive it over state lines!)
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