Almadraba bluefin tuna in olive oil
Lidia Galván y Manolo Ruiz in Barbate · 250 g tin
£15.50
VAT included
In London you can find it in these shops.
Before you order it to your door, see if a shop is near you. They keep it for you and you pick it up when it suits you.
- Colmado Hackney
Chatsworth Road 61, London
Tue to Fri 12:00 to 20:00 · Sat to Sun 11:00 to 17:00
- Despensa Northcote
Northcote Road 74, London
Mon to Fri 10:00 to 19:00 · Sat 10:00 to 17:00
If there is no shop near you, we send it to your door.
Delivery to United Kingdom: £17.10, 4 to 6 days.
Delivery already includes customs and taxes. You pay nothing more when it arrives.
Who makes it
Manolo Ruiz is fifty-four and has spent thirty years at the almadraba. Every May he heads out of Barbate in the boats that set the nets off the coast. His father worked the almadraba too, and so did his grandfather.
Conservera Galván has been at the harbour since 1957. Lidia Galván is twenty-nine and runs the packing line. Her uncles are over seventy and none of her cousins wants to carry on. That is why we are looking at it joining @seis.
Lidia says almadraba tuna is the tuna that passes by here once a year and does not come back. If the cannery closes, it will be tinned somewhere else under another name. She wants the tin to go on saying Barbate.
How it is made
01
In spring the almadraba is set: a maze of fixed nets across the tuna's path into the Mediterranean.
02
When the nets are raised, only the big tuna are hauled up by hand, and they are landed within the hour.
03
The tuna is cooked in salted water and cleaned by hand, loin by loin.
04
It is packed into tins with olive oil and rests for months before it is sold.
Andalusia
Barbate is on the Cádiz coast, between the La Breña pine forest and the Strait of Gibraltar. The town has lived off tuna since the Phoenicians.
What we are allowed to say
Bluefin tuna is high in omega-3 fatty acids. EPA and DHA contribute to the normal function of the heart. The beneficial effect is obtained with a daily intake of 250 mg of EPA and DHA.
What they do so it lasts
- 01The almadraba is a fixed trap: it does not chase the tuna, it waits for it.
- 02It only keeps the big, adult tuna.
- 03It is fished under quota and every fish comes with its catch certificate.
Where your money goes
- Lidia Galván y Manolo Ruiz
- £6.50
- 46%
- Transport
- £1.10
- 8%
- @seis
- £2.50
- 18%
- The shop or home delivery
- £3.90
- 28%
Out of £14.10, the price before VAT. The VAT, £1.40, goes to the state.
What the label says
- Format
- 250 g tin
- Ingredients
- Almadraba bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), olive oil and salt.
- Allergens
- Contains fish.
- Storage
- In the cupboard. Once open, in the fridge and within two days.
- Best before
- 5 years from packing. It improves with time.
- Seal
- No seal
- Made in
- Barbate, Andalusia
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