Full of surprises!
September 1, 2011
It could seem that little is happening recently. So it seems…
But mark my words, for this upcoming high season I have some very tasty and eye popping surprises. No matter if it’s about our products, our distributional strategy or our cooperations and events cosmo. I can offer a treat to every taste. But why lift the curtain now and blow away all the fun? Let me keep them as a secret just for a little longer…
Stay tuned for more to come!
ProClima certification
August 31, 2011
As ZwyerCaviar LLC is following its ambitious action plan to get “the greener the better”, I want to share this with my fellow readers.
As in 2009, back in 2010 the entire operation got climat neutral via compensatory tickets. It’s not about acting voluntarily but rather acting responsable. We are not seeking shoulder taps, but rather looking for a common ground, a mutual understanding regarding values.
With MyClimate and ProClima we found competent and reliable partners.
ZwyerCaviar is dispatching all their parcels within Switzerland via railway and overnight, a service coordinated by the Swiss Post. And as ZwyerCaviar takes part in its ProClima projects, we get to offset our consignments, which by how the railway runs, already are quite eco responsible.
Now, this compensation was invested into a project called “Prony and Kafeate Wind Farms” in New Caledonia and generates 50 jobs. For more information, pls check this link:
ZwyerCaviar at Fairmont/Raffles/Swissôtel
June 9, 2011
ZwyerCaviar LLC is proud to announce its recently signed procurement contract with Fairmont Raffles Hotels International. Fairmont Raffles Hotels International is a Toronto, Canada based hotel chain group. The company manages the three prestigious hotel brands Fairmont, Raffles and Swissôtel with a total of around 100 hotels in almost 30 countries.
We look forward to our continued developing partnership and future success.
“Sturgeons (…) couldn’t handle mankind.”
November 19, 2010
Read about what sturgeon researcher Matt Balazik has to say about these fossils.
ZwyerCaviar teams up with Forman & Field
November 17, 2010
Forman & Field is UK’s top fine food mail order company, offering only the best gourmet food there is.
After receiving requests regarding availability of ZwyerCaviar within the UK, ZwyerCaviar LLC looked for an ideal partner. As a result, ZwyerCaviar now is available at Forman & Field. To order online, check this!
Caviar capital Astrakhan dies
November 12, 2010
I recommend to read this sad story about the fading away of many coastal regions around the Caspian Sea.
After the sturgeons are gone, the humans will too…Fair enough?
ZwyerCaviar now at Harrods!
November 10, 2010
We of ZwyerCaviar LLC are proud to partner up with one of the worlds most exclusive shopping institutions.
Following the official press release from Harrods:
PRESS RELEASE
THE CREAM OF THE CAVIAR CROP
ZwyerCaviar launches at Harrods Food Halls
This month an exceptional new caviar range, ZwyerCaviar, launches at Harrods prestigious Food Halls. Originating from a remote natural reserve in the heart of Uruguay, the range features the finest hand-selected caviar at the peak of size, flavour, colour and texture.
This award-winning caviar is harvested using an innovative Russian farming principle called ‘wild-raised’, whereby the sturgeon live in a natural reserve and the roe is collected when the sturgeons are at their most mature state. To ensure the highest quality, ZwyerCaviar is then refined with Portuguese sea salt (Flor de Sal) and rinsed with glacier water from Patagonia, which contributes to a fresh and mild flavour.
With only the most outstanding Oscietra hand-picked for the range, which includes Grand Cru Oscietra, from Russian sturgeon and Premier Cru Oscietra, from Siberian sturgeon, it makes the ideal delicacy for special occasion dining. Beautifully presented in packaging with an unique cooling and protecting system it also makes a great gift for food aficionados. Those wishing to taste this delicious delicacy for the first time, can even sample the range with smaller taster Temptation jars.
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For further information, images or samples from the range please contact
Jess Armstrong in the Harrods Press Office on 020 7893 8155 or email jess.armstrong@harrods.com
Visit ZwyerCaviar at Gourmesse in Zurich
October 4, 2010
ZwyerCaviar LLC will be attending the fair with an info stand.
For the true epicureans we offer a degustation of all our products, accompanied with a glass of bubbly.
Gourmesse will be held at the Kongresshaus between the 8th until the 11th of october, from 12AM until 10PM.
Find us under booth number P34 in the ‘Panoramasaal’!
For more information regarding the fair, visit: Gourmesse
Ban over wild caviar ended! Death-stab?
August 6, 2010
For the ones working in the caviar industry, that’s of course old news. On July, 23rd CITES published the new export quotas for caviar coming from the Caspian Sea. This is big. After the 5 bordering sea states didn’t come to an agreement over export quotas in 2006 and in 2009, which led to an export ban for these two years, this time they came to a consensus.
A total of 81 tons of black caviar will be allowed to enter the international market. 3 tons of the highest prized beluga, 17 tons of sevruga and 61 tons of oscietra. In comparison to 2008, this means only a reduction of 5 tons in total (or 6%).
This decision might generate some shaking heads, as the rapidly declining sturgeon wild stock in the Caspian Sea isn’t exactly ‘in line’ with this decision. Furthermore I’ve to add, that even if these new export quotas (related to the fishing season from March 2010 until February 2011) show a tendency downwards regarding the amount of caviar, it is nothing but a silly move. Natural wild life protection is something else.
I understand, that there has to be a business ($) in order to protect it. Imagining a 10-year export ban? It would lead to a prosperous poaching, exceeding todays reality. But thinking about corruption and short-sighted greedy interests I can’t see nothing good in this. At least not for the highly sought after females. This decisions means in other words: As we are not capable to fight against poaching and corruption significantly, so let’s at least earn some money over the last sturgeons there are and make sure it ends in our pockets.
I share the opinion with Ellen Pikitch, executive director of the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University, saying: “It’s ludicrous to allow any fishing. The quotas should all have been zero for all of these species.”
My guess is, there won’t be enough wild stock to reach the maximum quotas in the first place. My hope is, that consumers got used to high premium farmed caviar and give these wild fossils a break. A long one! But than again: the biggest margins lie in wild caviar. No need to comment…
Hopefully one day CITES changes from a solely regulating authority to a controlling one. Will this come too late?
Further links:
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
How much banning is needed? (part II)
June 28, 2010
(Click here to read the first part)
Back in April I wrote a post about a mere rumour, that the Caspian Sea border states are planning to ban sturgeon fishing for the duration of ten years. This proposal is to be seen under the fact, that all five border states in 2006 and 2009 failed to agree on export quotas in order to conserve the already fast dwindling sturgeon stocks. This agreement must be based on scientific facts and surveys complying with the policy in protecting remaining stocks. Since over a ear and a half there is an export ban on all black caviar from the Caspian Sea.
(Of course this doesn’t mean one can’t find any wild caviar these days. There is. But the delicacy has to be smuggled or two and a half years old…Either way, no reassuring reasons to spend your money as it could be a label fraud, rotten goods or an unintended act of supporting a crime organization.)
The possible future ban on sturgeon fishing was earlier mentioned to endure ten year, then only five. And now it seems that the bar was raised up to fifteen years. But with the slow maturation rate of the sturgeons in mind (the females take up to fifteen years to reach fertility) this would mean – at best – to maintain the current stocks instead of populating growth.
A fifteen years ban? For some a bold attempt. For most simply not good enough. Triple the years and the sturgeons in the Caspian Sea could maybe have a bright future.
But even if such a ban could come into existence, it would not solve the problem of lack of control and corruption (the Caspian Sea is a very vast place!) and the high risk of pollution that comes with oil drilling. And all three put the sturgeon where he is today: on the edge of the abyss.
For all wild caviar lovers who want to ease mind & palate, head for premium farmed caviar.
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