An honorary Walter Scheel Medaille for the Trikalinos Company The 29th of March 2022 was a significant moment for Greece and a moving night for the Trikalinos Company, the leader in the produc- tion of Grey Mullet Bottarga. The awarding of the honorary - Walter Scheel Medaille - is an international recognition of the overall contribution of the Trikalinos family, for the unwavering commitment to the implementation, improvement, and evolution of the production of Bottarga. The Walter Scheel Association was founded in 1991 with the aim of awarding the medal of the fourth and most beloved Federal President of Germany to individuals who have rendered outstanding service to the preservation of European wine and gastronomic culture. The patron of the award was the lateValéry Giscard d’Estaing, former President of the French Republic. With a touching and honorary speech, the President of the Organization -Mr. Christophe Wirtz, handed the Award to Zafeiris Trikalinos, Trikalinos’ current President. He stated, among others: “Ever since the mid-19th century, the Trikalinos Family has been processing the roe of grey mullet caught in the Ionian Sea and transforming it, with the help of little more than sea salt and sunlight, into an incomparable delicacy, into “Avgotaraho”.