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Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting Judges

2008 Judges
February 23, 2008

Nayl D'Souza, Editor of Bottled Water World Magazine

Sandra Thomas, Executive Editor & Producer of Thom Thom Media

Sam Edelman, Good Eat Column of Pittsburgh Magazine

Jill Yesko, Delta & US Air, Inflight Magazine

Tamar Alexia Fleishman, Editor in Chief of Southern Fried Magazine

Su Clauson-Wicker, Author, Inn-to-Inn Walking Guide for VA & WV

Christiane Lauterbach, Dining Critic of Atlantic Magazine, James Beard Institute and Knife & Fork

Julie Perrine, Clarksburg Exponent-Telegraph

Lucinda Anderson Hughes, The Frugal Socialite

Kensie Westerfield, Executive editor, COMAR, Inc.; editor, WV Executive Magazine

Jennifer Nugent, Editor, MetroValley Magazine

George Oliver, Editor, B2B Outlook

Anne Kram, The Smart Set, from Drexel University

2007 Judges
February 24, 2007

Akiko Busch, Travel & Leisure

Katie Leslie, Frederick News-Post

Kevin Cowherd, Baltimore Sun

Lou Perri, Philadelphia New Observer

Crystal Schelle, The Journal, Martinsburg, WV

Michele Kayal, Conde Nast

Matt Rutkowski, Pittsburgh Business Times

Angelique Gonzalez, NBC25-TV, Hagerstown, MD

Eve Zibart, Washington Post

Margo Williams, Valley Homes & Style

Stephanie Earls, Times Union, Albany, NY

Arthur von Wiesenberger, noted water expert, author, radio and TV personality from Santa Barbara, CA, will conduct the event.

The competition is a double blind taste test using a scorecard judging clarity, smell, taste, mouth feel & aftertaste. Detailed results of the judging will be available to each individual municipality or company after the event.

All four divisions - commercially bottled water, sparkling & non-carbonated, purified drinking water, and municipal water will be judged separately. Ballots for the Peoples' Choice Package Design Award will be available on Saturday, February 23, 2008.

We will only release the top five winners in each field, avoiding any negative press for those entrants who finish lower.