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A country well refreshes celebrity elite

Perry Robins flushes his toilet with Oprah Winfrey's favourite bottled water.

But it's not as fancy as it sounds.

Drive north of Baltimore, Ont., toward Rice Lake, and you will Designer Louis Vuitton Replica Handbags pass Mill Valley Natural Spring Water Ltd. Most people in the area know it because of Scenic Drive Restaurant, a roadside greasy spoon Mr. Robins's parents opened cheap louis vuitton bags from china uk back in 1963. But high quality designer replica handbags wholesale while the Robinses continue to cater to a daily coffee klatch of local farmers and retirees, the majority of the family business is now drawn directly from the 21 metre well out back.

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"Our business plan is quality water," Mr. Robins Discount Replica Louis Vuitton Bags said, standing in a small warehouse high quality replica handbags china full of pure spring H{ 2}O, bottled in his own tiny, on site plant.

Among Mill Valley's client list (which includes Air Canada, Senses and Richtree restaurants in Toronto and the Ottawa Congress Centre) is the high end 1 Litre, based in Markham, Ont.

With its sleek built in cup design and eye replica designer handbags gouging price point (it sells from between $8 and $11 a litre), the 1 Litre brand has managed to attract some of the biggest international contracts in the business since it started three years ago.

Selling almost exclusively to upscale restaurants, spas and resorts around the world, 1 cheap louis vuitton bags from china Litre is not the sort of bottled water that is sold from the fridge in your local corner shop. Louis Vuitton retail outlets carry the product in France, as does the exclusive Parrot Cay Resort in Turks and Caicos.

And 1 Litre even beat out international spring water heavyweights Evian and Voss for the coveted worldwide Four Seasons Hotel contract.

Now the 1:1 replica handbags brand is beginning to attract celebrity interest as well, helped by its inclusion in last year's Oscar night gift bags.

1 Litre vice president Arie Sibonney said the brand boasts a list of 50 celebrity clients who are private paying customers, including power couple Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher.

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Ms. Winfrey, arguably the most influential celebrity in the world, endorsed the product in the October issue of O Magazine, saying of 1 Litre, "This company seeks out the finest water in North America, Europe and Asia. I like its clean design the lid doubles as an elegant cup as well as its clean taste."

Perfect Quality Louis Vuitton Replica Every drop of 1 Litre water comes from two small wells located on 1.5 hectares off Highway 45 north of Baltimore. Back in the early 1960s, Mr. Robins's parents bought the property and opened their restaurant without knowing its secret: It was built on an aquifer, an ancient glacial deposit below the Earth's surface that naturally filters and purifies ground water.

For years, Mr. Robins remembers, tourists would stop in on the way to their cottages in Rice Lake and remark upon the coffee.

"They said it was the best coffee they'd ever tasted and we said, 'It's not the coffee, its the water!' " Before long, cottagers were stopping in to fill up plastic containers of spring water to take with them on holiday.

The Robinses applied for a permit in 2000 and started bottling the same year. Given that their property is located on the protected Oak Ridges moraine, it is unlikely they would receive the same permit today (although their existing one was recently extended for a decade).

"Anyone around here can get the same water from a 70 foot well," Mr. Robins said. "It's the permit that's the issue."

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1 Litre chose Mill Valley water after an exhaustive international search. replica louis vuitton bags Before going to market they had several taste tests and a competition judged by an expert panel of renowned chefs and "water sommeliers."

"There was a selection process of over 25 springs throughout North America and Europe, and Northumberland came out on top," Mr. Sibonney said. "Their water is extremely clean. It has 2 times less sodium than Evian."

https://toughn20395.blogspot.com/2021/07/to-make-traveling-even-easier.html This sought after product is available wholesale for $4 for a case of 24 unmarked half litre bottles at the Mill Valley office, in the parking fake designer bags lot beside the greasy spoon.

For obvious reasons, 1 Litre is not exactly keen to talk up its high end product's homespun roots.

"Mill Valley and 1 Litre water company are two separate entities," Mr. Sibonney said in an e mail. "The 1 Litre brand has a very specific marketing campaign and naming our exact spring source high quality designer replica handbags is not in that plan."

What is in the plan is selling a heavily marked up product to a sophisticated clientele one that Mr. Robins and his family could never have hoped to reach on their own.

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Mr. Robins is mum on the specifics of his association with 1 Litre, out of fear of violating a non disclosure agreement. However, he will say: "Clients have acquired a taste for Mill Valley. You can only sell your water from packaging the first time people won't buy it again if they don't like the taste."

And while the elegant packaging may be what sets 1 Litre apart, the taste is also getting rave reviews.