Vintage Sardines Lulu – 2023

La Perle des Dieux – LULU Vintage Sardines 2023

Aged for 2 years

The limited edition La Perle des Dieux 2023 Vintage Sardines Lulu have now been aged for two years and are fine and aromatic in taste. You can purchase them online and offline in our sardine shop. 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 remain a true delicacy even after a decade (or especially then).

To ensure the vintage sardines last a long time, we recommend turning the cans every 6 months so that the sardines remain well covered with oil on all sides. This way, the sardines become more tender with age and intensify their flavor, melting in your mouth like butter, while younger vintages are still firmer in flesh.

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

Vintage Sardines 2023 – Coralie Joulin

Not least the beautiful, annually changing motifs, designed by illustrator Coralie Joulin, make La Perle des Dieux Lulu vintage sardines a collector's item. The 2023 motif is called: Sous le chapiteau de Melle Lulu, which means Under Mademoiselle Lulu's Big Top. It shows Lulu in a pink suit as a circus artist under the striped circus canopy.

La Perle des Dieux – Sardine Shop Goes Female

La Perle des Dieux is arguably the most feminine cannery among sardine producers. This is no surprise, as founder Claudie Vardelle was for a long time the manager of a Parisian fashion boutique before founding La Perle des Dieux in 2005 with Philippe Gendreau, whose family had been producing canned fish for 4 generations. It was also her idea not to illustrate the colorful metal cans 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 two wonderful series of vintage sardines, one by Delphine Cossais (La Mademoiselle) and one by Coralie Joulin (Lulu), which have shaped the reputation of La Perle des Dieux.

Of course, it's not just the charming exterior that makes La Perle des Dieux sardines so special. The sardines are caught off the coast of Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, once a famous fishing port, and are carefully hand-cleaned and filled into cans while fresh. For the recipes of the flavored 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