Caviar quality FAR below what the website claims
We found the offer on the Zarendom Website for „2 x 125g Osetra Caviar at 209€ instead of 418€ very attractive, especially as the description on the website read like we will get a premium caviar.
The product-photos on the website show beautiful dark caviar balls that can be estimated to about 2-3 mm in diameter, similar to those we often had often from other caviar shops selling Osetra (or Osietra). Everything looked like a good place to buy great caviar and the company presented itself professionally.
So we ordered and receiced the caviar in a good cooling-box.
When we opened the first tin of that Zarendoms Osetra Caviar, we were very surprised. Inside the tin were very little, all yellowish (!) balls measuring only about 1–1.5 mm. Well, we were not even sure if this could even be called „caviar balls“. They had a mushy consistency and tasted completely bland. The typical bursting of the balls on the tongue was also absent.
When we asked Zarendom in a friendly way that there eventually was a mix-up of the tin-labels as the caviar was much smaller than regular Osietra, had a very different color and does not even come close to the product-pictures shown on their website, they simply replied "Sturgeon caviar is never large, and the colour of the caviar can also vary.". That‘s all they had to say about it, so we asked to return the product.
We were offered a credit note if we returned the one remaining full, sealed tin, but they would not credit the tin that had already been opened. Well….
The product quality is totally unacceptable and completely different from the pictures shown on the website. From a reputable caviar supplier, we would have expected, first of all, an acknowledgement and apology for the clear deviation in look & quality, as well as an offer to exchange the goods or issue a full credit note.
Zarendom is disappointing in terms of quality and service.
14 februari 2026
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