Sardines - products and vintage sardines

Top sardines

The fishing grounds extend far beyond the Mediterranean Sea. Because even from the Western European Atlantic up to Greenland, the sardines known as Mediterranean delicacies are to be found here.
Because of the pinch of sea salt and olive oil, the sardines are combined with Mediterranean cuisine. The sardines are selected in the fall, because then the time of the fattest sardines, caught fresh directly in the port by hand, scaled, except and briefly boiled at 90 ° C in hot olive oil, it is used exclusively extra virgin olive oil.
The oil penetrates the meat of the sardine during this long storage and the taste becomes even more harmonious.

Sardines in olive oil with vintage, from France (vintage sardines)

Vintage sardines

Year sardines and vintage champagnes form a great symbiosis and this is celebrated for years in large champagne houses at the vintage tasting. The Champangner Dom Perignon tries to combine the tastes of the same vintages of champagne and sardines.
Meanwhile, not only the gourmets are aware of this quality. Some fans totally disregard the statutory best before date, because they believe that sardines, after 40-50 years of aging in the can, still spoil the palate.