The most comprehensive caviar-tasting which I have achieved was in Helsinki, at the Havis Amanda Seafood Restaurant, where I noted the following comparative prices (given in Finnish marks, valid for June 1976):
‘Russian’ (i.e. sturgeon) caviar |
50 |
Smoked forel (trout) caviar |
38/40 |
Vendace caviar |
36 |
Whitefish caviar |
about 32 |
It is interesting that the disparities should be so limited, but my tasting did not suggest that they should be wider.
Working from the bottom upwards, I tried the whitefish caviar first. The colour is a pleasant orange, the taste good but rather salty.