A new taste sensation transforming the culinary world

The Caviar or Finger Lime has become a sought-after premium ingredient for top chefs globally

The small fruit with pulp that resembles caviar, has a distinctive citrus taste sensation which adds flavour and interest to a wide variety of seafood and dessert applications, and is a popular garnish for mixologists.

Caviar Limes have a stronger, tangier citrus taste than other limes. The caviar pearls look like caviar, but unlike caviar, the pearls keep their spherical shape, exploding with flavour and releasing zesty notes of aromatic lemon and lime when they are bitten.

Until now, fresh Caviar Limes have been unavailable in New Zealand.

Our Caviar Lime orchards in Auckland are surrounded on four sides by banks of flowering lavender and New Zealand manuka. Bees love the flowers of all three plants and divide their time equally visiting the Citrus Limes, the lavender and the manuka. Perhaps because of this, or perhaps because of the difference in soil and climate conditions, the Auckland fruit has its own distinctive flavour and intensity.

The fruit’s aroma, which is naturally highly fragrant also contains hints of lavender. The Caviar Lime pearls offer a suggestion of manuka honey.

See the Caviar Limes FAQ's page for more information.