about azouro

Azouro is a range of premium quality, artisanal Portuguese products. Farmed and caught by the best local growers and fishermen, prepared and packaged in Portugal, and finally exported internationally. Azouro takes pride in bringing the best flavours to as many discerning customers as possible. Our ethical emphasis is on quality, provenance, and sustainability. Azouro brings you great food that is good for you.

Delicious, simple, clean, and honest.
There's no need to complicate what's
already perfect!

our story

Our journey began over 20 years ago in Southern
Portugal, a country blessed with a wildly rich
culinary heritage and landscape, and filled with
foods and flavours that few people outside Portugal
know about. Founders Stephen and Rachel Firth
were inspired to create Azouro in 2013. The
Portuguese identify strongly with local and regional
foods and azouro curates the best, most delicious,
and most authentic of these products in pursuit of
excellence. With so many flavours to explore, our
journey is just starting.

our products

We now partner with the finest specialty food producers in Northern Portugal to bring our customers the highest quality. Each of our products have been selected with care and discernment, and our partners are chosen for their knowledge of the local environment. Their experience in fostering the ideal conditions for the perfect harvest results in a collection of the purest flavours every time.

our olive varieties

Our olives are indigenous varieties unique to Portugal. The hot dry summers and cold wet winters of this region create optimum conditions for ripening the olives on the trees, helping to create their distinctive flavour. All our olives are preserved naturally in brine (a mix of water and salt) for a minimum of 7-8 months and up to 2 years.

Galega olives—350g

Known as the olive of Portugal, our native Galega variety are ripened on the tree and then carefully selected for harvesting when just ripe. They are then cured before adding oregano. The result is an olive that is firm, smooth, and sweet. Produced in the Beira Baixa region, these olives (a local favourite), are an ideal table olive as the pulp is easily separated from the stone. Net drained weight: 210g

Negrinha Do Douro olives—350g

Unique to the Douro region, these olives are harvested
when turning colour. They are then preserved and split
before adding garlic and oregano. The result is an olive
that is firm, robust, and garlicky. Net drained weight: 210g

extra virgin olive oil

Trás-os-Montes and the Alto Douro is one of the best olive oil production areas in the world, where the Terra Quente (The Warm Land) climate and schist soils produce delicate and complex olive oils with a nutty aroma. These are extremely balanced olive oils with sweet, green, bitter, and spicy tastes. Situated just above the River Douro in the north of the country, the area is famous for Port Wines, and offers the right conditions for us to produce our exclusive and fascinating olive oil.

pdo extra virgin olive oil—500ml

Azouro olive oil is made by cold pressing the olives within hours of being handpicked, and then bottled. This process must all be carried out in the district where the olives are harvested in order to maintain the strict PDO certification criteria and respect cultural traditions. Every season we create our unique blend from a selection of the finest indigenous olive varieties from this region – Verdeal, Madural & Cobrançosa.

azouro tinned fish

Our fish are rich in Omega-3 and an excellent source of protein. Prepared, canned, and packaged by hand in Matosinhos (fishing port), Northern Portugal, combining traditional Portuguese methods with modern technologies and the highest quality standards. Our fish is skinless, boneless, and ready to eat from the tin, in salads, on toast, or as tapas.

Skinless and boneless Sardine and Mackerel fillets.

Sardines in extra virgin olive oil and seaweed.

Azouro sardine croquette by Row Wines.

Azouro sardines, Great Taste two star winner.

Mackerel in extra virgin olive oil and lemon thyme.

sardine fillets—106 g

Award-winning sardines in extra virgin olive oil,
on a bed of organic seaweed (Sea Lettuce &
Bladderwrack). Combine to make an incredibly
delicate taste, and umami flavour sensation.

mackerel fillets—106 g

Our 100% pure, premium quality, mackerel fillets
are preserved in organic extra virgin olive oil
and lemon thyme. The freshest fish with the
purest olive oil and a hint of lemon thyme (herb) to
create a delicate and light flavour, like nothing else.

Contact:
For trade enquiries please contact
sales@azouro.com. For any other
enquiries please call: +353 87 927 5369
or email us at contact@azouro.com.
For online orders please visit
sheridanscheesemongers.com.

Address:
Av. Marechal Gomes da Costa 1551
4150-360 Porto
PORTUGAL