Why Carribie?

There are many mineral waters. There are very few like this.

Carribie is not assembled or adjusted. It is formed — slowly, naturally, within a single protected aquifer on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. What arrives in the bottle is what the land made. Nothing more.

Single Source

A protected family owned aquifer

Carribie is drawn exclusively from the Carribie Basin Aquifer — a naturally recharging freshwater limestone aquifer beneath the family estate on the southern edge of the Yorke Peninsula. Documented by the South Australian Government in 1966 and protected ever since, this single source ensures absolute consistency of character from one vintage to the next. There is no blending. No supplementation. One aquifer, one water.

Naturally Mineralised

Nothing added

The mineral composition of Carribie is the direct result of water moving slowly through layers of ancient calcarenite, shell fragments and limestone formed over 540 million years. Magnesium, calcium, potassium and bicarbonate accumulate in balanced measure through this geological process alone. Nothing is introduced. Nothing is adjusted. Carribie reaches the table exactly as nature structured it.

Balanced

The integration of minerals in Carribie is unique and found nowhere else

What distinguishes Carribie is not the presence of any single mineral, but the relationship between them all. The integration of magnesium, calcium, bicarbonate and trace coastal minerals produces a structure of rare equilibrium — one that delivers clarity on the palate, persistent mineral length, and a texture that elevates rather than competes. This balance is specific to this aquifer, this geology, this place. It exists nowhere else.

220mg/L Chloride

One of the secrets in our perceived sweet, savoury and umami mouthfeel is sea spray

Carribie's coastal position on the edge of the Great Southern Ocean is not incidental. Over millennia, marine winds drive sea spray onshore, then absorbed into the recharge landscape, leaving a natural trace of chloride within the aquifer at 220mg/L. The quiet signature of sea spray is a major reason Carribie has its distinctive perceived sweetness, savoury depth, and its lingering umami character. Structure from geology. Complexity from the coast.

100 & 99 Point Scores

Fine Waters Summit Montreal 2026

At the Fine Waters Summit in Montreal 2026, Carribie was awarded scores of 99 points Carribie Sparkling and 100 points Carribie Still — the highest recognition in the world of fine water. These scores reflect what the aquifer, the estate and time have built: a mineral water of measurable, exceptional quality that stands alongside the finest at the international table.

International Recognition

The preferred mineral water of the Master of Wine Symposium 2027

Carribie has been selected as the preferred mineral water of the Master of Wine Symposium 2027 — an acknowledgement by some of the world's most discerning palates that water, like wine, is shaped by where it comes from. To be chosen by the Masters of Wine is to be recognised not merely as a beverage, but as an expression of terroir.