Vintage Sardines - 2018

La Perle des Dieux – Vintage Sardines 2018
Aged for 7 years

The limited edition La Perle des Dieux Vintage Sardines 2018 have now been aged for 7 years and offer a particularly refined and aromatic taste. These vintage sardines (Sardines Millésimées) are caught at the end of the sardine season, when they have a particularly high fat content of about 12%. This is necessary for these special sardines to mature so well and to be a true delight even after a decade (or especially then).

To ensure the vintage sardines keep for a long time, we recommend turning the tins every 6 months so that the sardines remain well covered in oil on all sides. This way, the sardines become softer with age and their flavour intensifies, melting in your mouth like butter, while younger vintages are still firmer in flesh.

The vintage sardines for La Perle des Dieux are fished in France, off the coast of Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, a small commune southwest of Nantes that still largely relies on fishing. The sardines are only fished off St. Gilles Croix de Vie and between the islands of Yeu, Ré and Noirmoutier.

Vintage Sardines 2018 – Delphine Cossais

Not least the beautiful, annually changing motifs, designed by illustrator Delphine Cossais, make La Perle des Dieux vintage sardines a collector's item. The 2018 motif is called: Mlle Perle au en Inde, which means Miss Perle in India and shows Madame Perle in a sari.

La Perle des Dieux – Sardine Business goes female

La Perle des Dieux is probably the most feminine cannery among sardine producers. No wonder, because founder Claudie Vardelle was for a long time the head of a Parisian fashion store before she founded La Perle des Dieux in 2005 together with Philippe Gendreau, whose family has been producing canned fish for 4 generations. It was also her idea not to illustrate the colourful metal tins with fish or fishermen, but to find young female artists who would take a completely new approach to designing canned fish. This led to the creation of the two wonderful series of vintage sardines, one by Delphine Cossais (La Mademoiselle) and the other by Coralie Joulin (Lulu), which have shaped La Perle des Dieux's reputation.

Of course, it's not just the charming exterior that makes La Perle des Dieux sardines special. The sardines are caught off the coast of Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, once a famous fishing port, and carefully hand-cleaned and tinned fresh from the catch. For the recipes of the flavoured sardines and anchovies, high-quality basic ingredients are used, and delicious canned fish is produced according to traditional or newly inspired recipes.

Content 115 g – Drained weight 86.3 g