Conservas Pinhais

Founded in 1920 by two fishermen brothers drawn to Matosinhos by its sardines, Pinhais is the only cannery on the Portuguese mainland that still packs entirely by hand. The 37-step process, from gutting to the signature hand-wrapped paper label, is carried out by generations of women who have worked these same marble prep sinks for decades. Their tomato sauce recipe is known by only a handful of people and passed down verbally. NURI is their cult export label, in production since 1935.