
Oscietra caviar
Acipenser gueldenstaedtii
50 g tin
- Name
- Ossetra is a Codex-defined name (CXS 291 §7.1.1) reserved for A. gueldenstaedtii and A. persicus
- Colour
- Brown to dark grey, with an amber cast in older fish
- Character
- Firm bead, nutty, clean finish
- Farming
- Aquaculture-raised, minimum 12 years to maturity
- Salt
- Malossol, lightly salted. Codex CXS 291 sets 3–5 g of salt per 100 g; malossol itself has no legal definition
- CITES
- All sturgeon are CITES Appendix II. Every tin carries the universal label: species code / source / country / year / plant / lot
- Tin
- 50 g, opened in front of you; never decanted in advance
- Service temperature
- Served on crushed ice at 0–4 °C



