Vintage Sardines Lulu – 2024

La Perle des Dieux – LULU Vintage Sardines 2024
New Design

The limited edition La Perle des Dieux 2024 vintage sardines Lulu are brand new on the market, but already fine and aromatic in taste. You can buy them in our sardine shop online and offline. 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 so that these special sardines can mature so well and are still (or especially then) a true delight even after a decade.

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 softer with age and intensify their flavor, melting like butter on the tongue, 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 2024 – Coralie Joulin

Last but 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 2024 motif is called: "Mlle Lulu dans les étoiles," which means Mademoiselle Lulu among the stars. It shows Lulu in an orange spacesuit in space – under the eyes of the moon.

La Perle des Dieux – Sardine Shop goes female

La Perle des Dieux is probably the most feminine cannery among sardine producers. No wonder, since 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 colorful metal cans with fish or fishermen, but to find young female artists who would take a completely new approach to the design of canned fish. This is how the two wonderful series of vintage sardines were created, those by Delphine Cossais (La Mademoiselle) and those 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 special. The sardines are caught off the coast of Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, once a famous fishing port, and are carefully cleaned by hand and filled into cans while still fresh. For the recipes of the flavored sardines and anchovies, basic ingredients of the best quality are used, and delicious canned fish is produced according to traditional or newly inspired recipes.

Content 115 g – Drained weight 86.3 g