Vintage Sardines Lulu – 2021

La Perle des Dieux – LULU Vintage Sardines 2021
Aged 4 years

The limited edition La Perle des Dieux Vintage Sardines 2021 have now matured for a year, yet they are already fine and aromatic in taste. You can purchase them in our sardine shop both 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 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 well for 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 and intensify their flavour as they age, melting like butter on the tongue, while younger vintages still have firmer flesh.

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

Vintage Sardines 2021 – Coralie Joulin

Not least the beautiful, annually changing motifs, designed by illustrator Coralie Joulin, make La Perle de Dieux Lulu's vintage sardines a collector's item. The 2021 motif is called: Le Carnaval de Mlle Lulu, which means Mademoiselle Lulu's Carnival. After two years on the streets of Paris, Miss Lulu escapes the French capital this season and celebrates the Carnival of Venice in a gondola with her mask in hand.

La Perle des Dieux – Sardine Shop goes female

La Perle des Dieux is arguably the most feminine cannery among sardine producers. No wonder, as founder Claudie Vardelle was for a long time the manager 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 cans with fish or fishermen, but to find young female artists who would take a completely new approach to designing canned fish. This is how the two wonderful series of vintage sardines came about, one by Delphine Cossais (La Mademoiselle) and the other by Coralie Joulin (Lulu), which have shaped the reputation of La Perle des Dieux.

Of course, it's not just the enchanting 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 carefully hand-cleaned and packed into cans while still fresh. For the recipes of the flavoured sardines and anchovies, basic ingredients of the best quality are used, and delicious canned fish products are made from them according to traditional or newly inspired recipes.

Content 115 g – Drained weight 86.3 g