"This is the most expensive water you are ever going to taste." — Nick DiGiovanni, April 25, 2026
There are moments when everything comes together. Last Friday was one of them.
Nick DiGiovanni's video "I Ate Every Color Of Food" — one of the world's largest food creators with over 50 million followers — went live. Within 24 hours: 2.7 million views, 67,000 likes. And at minute 30: two of the world's most extraordinary waters. Curated, sourced and delivered by me.
The decision I never planned to make
The first bottle Nick holds up in this video was my last personal bottle of Svalbarði Polar Iceberg Water. From the AQAPOLIS archive — my private water collection of over 1,500 waters from more than 80 countries, the largest of its kind in the world. A bottle I had considered unsellable.
Svalbarði Polar Iceberg Water. Arctic iceberg water from the Kongsfjord at 79° North. Last bottled in 2020. Millennia-old glacial ice. A TDS of 21 mg/l — one of the purest natural waters in existence. Multiple award winner at the Fine Water Society and the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting. In 2026, I sold one of the last collector's bottles for €10,000. The bottle in the video was the last one I had.
When Nick and his producer Zach Blank reached out to me, the answer was clear. But what to do with this last bottle took longer to decide. Then Nick and I made the decision together: this bottle doesn't belong in a display case. It belongs to someone who will actually drink it. Nick is giving it away to one of his subscribers.
The second water: Fillico
The second bottle was Fillico Jewelry Water — Japanese luxury mineral water from Kobe, which I sourced and managed exclusively for this project. Fillico is not ordinary water. It is an object. Every bottle is handcrafted: up to 40 Swarovski crystals, 24-carat gold leaf, a handmade crown. A maximum of 5,000 bottles leave the Kobe atelier each month. In Europe, it is barely available.
The water itself comes from the Nunobiki spring at 800 metres altitude in the Rokko National Park — a source used for centuries in the production of the world-famous Nada-gogo sake. pH 8.0 to 8.5, naturally alkaline, ranked the world's best mineral water brand by Insider Monkey in 2017. Christian Dior introduced Fillico to its VIP customers. The Emperor of Japan took it to Milan.
Patrick's reaction when he opened the bottle said everything. He wanted the wings.
I arranged the Fillico bottle for this video directly through the brand's management — one of the second-generation bottles available since 2024. That too is my work: opening the access others don't have.
What this means
My name and Fine Liquids are listed first in the video description — before everyone else. That is not coincidence. It is the result of trust, long conversations, precise curation, and the conviction that water is more than a beverage.
This is my work. I source, curate and contextualise the world's most extraordinary waters — for media productions, events, gastronomy and collectors. For over 15 years. With an archive that exists nowhere else in the world.
A huge thank you to Nick DiGiovanni for his trust and genuine enthusiasm for the subject of water. And to Zach Blank, his producer, who made this collaboration possible from the very beginning.
The video is running. The last Svalbarði bottle is on its way to someone who deserves it. And I'm looking forward to what comes next.
🔗 Svalbarði at Fine Liquids: fine-liquids.com 🔗 Fillico at Fine Liquids: fine-liquids.com
▶️ The video:
https://youtu.be/GPgW3MWmQwM?si=L0L5Hwr5pofFd7Pz&t=1822
