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Tips on choosing and tasting caviar

What is caviar? These little black balls are fish eggs, sturgeon more accurately. Wanted, precious, rare, it is a symbol of unbridled wealth hoisted with diamonds. Caviar enchanted the Russian emperors. Caviar is associated with luxury and is often considered inaccessible. It is the roe of sturgeon caught in the Caspian Sea. But this aspect has three main variations, because there are three different types of sturgeon swimming in that sea. And it is true that it is expensive. Beluga sturgeon provides the most expensive eggs, reaching close to $ 2,000 retail per pound of high quality caviar. This does not necessarily mean that they are the best eggs. Beluga caviar usually has a color ranging from light gray to dark gray and is often the least intensely tasty of the three types of caviar. A large amount of beluga is processed during the autumn harvest. Osetra sturgeon provides eggs that are a smaller point in size (fish usually does not exceed 2.15 meters) and a big difference in price (one kilogram of high quality osetra comes for under $ 1,000). But the osetra caviar has a distinctive feature. Because sturgeon swims deeper in the sea than other fish, and because of this it has a different diet, the taste of its eggs is quite different. Sevruga sturgeon, on the other hand, is the smallest of the three fish (only 1.65 meters), and the small eggs it provides result in the lowest price (usually around $ 650 per kilogram of superior quality caviar). Sevruga caviar is usually the darkest of the three, ranging from medium gray to almost black and, to my taste, … [Read More...]