Photos: Fine Water Summit Taste and Design Awards

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Photos: Fine Water Summit Taste and Design Awards

Judges with the Fine Water Society sipped about 100 different waters for their 2025 Taste and Design Awards in Atlanta.

Judges at the Fine Water Summit included Michael Mascha (third from left), the founder of the Fine Water Society, and Elena Berg (far right), an environmental science professor at the American University of Paris. (Credit: Henri Hollis / henri.hollis@ajc.com)

About 100 waters were submitted in more than two-dozen categories to be judged at the Fine Water Summit's 2025 Taste and Design Awards in Buckhead. (Credit: Henri Hollis / henri.hollis@ajc.com)

Facilitators pour water behind a screen separating them from the judges. (Credit: Henri Hollis / henri.hollis@ajc.com)

Open bottles of water in front of the judges' dais at the Fine Water Summit. (Credit: Henri Hollis / henri.hollis@ajc.com)

Curious attendees taste a wide variety of waters at the Fine Water Summit in Buckhead. (Credit: Henri Hollis / henri.hollis@ajc.com)

A naturally sparkling water that was one of the final waters to be tasted earned two 100-point scores from the judges, a rare feat over the course of the contest. (Credit: Henri Hollis / henri.hollis@ajc.com)

Attendees who bought a ticket to the conference took a bus to Hamilton, Georgia, after the panel tasting to visit the bottling facility for Callaway Blue Mountain Spring Water. (Credit: Henri Hollis / henri.hollis@ajc.com)

The Fine Water Summit's 2025 Taste and Design Awards also recognized water packaging in several categories, and many of the fine water bottles looked more like high-end vodka or tequila. Fromin water from Czechia submitted three bottles, including one (right) that contained gold flakes. (Credit: Henri Hollis / henri.hollis@ajc.com)

Water at the Fine Water Summit was packaged in boxes, cans, bottles and bags. (Credit: Henri Hollis / henri.hollis@ajc.com)

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Credit: Henri Hollis

Judges at the Fine Water Summit included Michael Mascha (third from left), the founder of the Fine Water Society, and Elena Berg (far right), an environmental science professor at the American University of Paris. (Credit: Henri Hollis / henri.hollis@ajc.com)

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