Balera Weine
Balera has been a fixture in Neukölln for 12 years, quietly doing one of the most important jobs in the Berlin food scene: importing and distributing small Italian natural and organic wines, selling them on tap and in bottle, and making the whole thing feel completely unpretentious. Their shop on Karl-Marx-Platz is the kind of place where you can taste before you buy, fill your own bottle from the barrel, and leave knowing exactly what you’re drinking and why.Our relationship with Balera goes back well before either Oddkin or Balera existed. Alessandro and Sara, Balera’s founder, go back to their days working together at one of Kreuzberg’s most iconic — and legendarily chaotic — Italian restaurants. They’ve been crossing paths and supporting each other’s projects ever since. Alessandro is still part of Balera’s team today, serving natural wines twice a week and looking after an Oddkin-curated selection of cheeses and food products in the shop. The wines you’ll find on Oddkin come directly from Balera’s own import roster.
Caseificio Rosola
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Charcuterie & Meat
Small-scale artisanal products carefully selected with our main partners, Vincenzo and Pietro from Puro Import, offering products of absolute excellence, while showing how animal husbandry done the right way - and generations of craftsmanship - can indeed be an environmentally sound agricultural practice.
Salumificio Fedeli works with a small network of local farmers in the green mountains of Umbria. None of them owns more than 100 pigs at a time (on average, between 30 and 50 pigs per farmer), they are all kept in small fields with access to delicious acorns from the forest surrounding the town. The Fedeli family then takes care of the meat, producing some of the best cold cuts in the whole country in their state-of-the-art facility.
Sapori Mediterranei works with a similar ethos, but Giovanni Ciliberti's team follows even more low-tech, simple rules: not only run their pigs freely in the natural park of the Materan Mountains, but even their charcuterie follows a strict no-additives policy. The only preservatives used are salt, black pepper, local spices. Their Capocollo is an absolute treasure, and their Salame Pezzente is one of Italy's 177 Slow Food Presidiums.
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Cheese & Dairy
This page will grow exponentially over the next few months and will feature some of the most renowned cheese producers in the world. To be fair, it already does: Caseificio Barlotti has won Super Gold with Pirano and Gold Medals with Mozzarella di Bufala and Bonfiore at the 2023 World Cheese Awards. Bonat has literally run out of space on their labels for all the awards they’ve accumulated over the years, and they are considered THE absolute masters of Parmigiano Reggiano since decades. CAO Formaggi, a leader in Pecorino Romano DOP, has been using regenerative farming techniques and ancient sheep breeds for 60 years (way before it was cool).
We will add many more jewels over time, not just from Italy but also from Greece, France, Austria—and even Brandenburg!
Fresh Fruit and Veggies
We resource only the freshest produce from local farms here in Germany, and select partners in Italy. Everything is in season and delivered straight to your door.
Gut Ogrosen
Gut Ogrosen is an organic farm in the Lausitz, about 120km south of Berlin, in the Niederlausitzer Heide. The estate is the anchor of the Ogrosen Höfegemeinschaft — a collaborative community of three independent farms sharing land, resources, and infrastructure, each bringing their own focus and craft. It’s exactly the kind of model that Oddkin is built around.Our direct relationship is with Schafhof Schafgarbe, one of the three members of the Gemeinschaft, run by Friedhelm and Ulrike. Alessandro met them at the Chamissoplatz Ökomarkt — one of Berlin’s best weekly organic markets, and a recurring source of excellent producers for Oddkin. The third member of the community is Ziegenhof am Gut Ogrosen, run by Cecilia Abel and Daniel Baumgart, who raise around 80 dairy goats and produce a range of raw goat’s milk cheeses seasonally from April to December. Their cheeses will be joining the Oddkin lineup soon — watch this space.Between them, all three farms make very good cheese. Case in point: Gut Ogrosen’s Berta was just nominated Best German Cheese at the World Cheese Awards. You’ll find it below, alongside three more from Robert’s dairy.
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Pantry
Top-quality, nutritious, ethically produced staples for the price of industrially produced ones. Some are certified organic, some are beyond organic (if your farm is protected by UNESCO you might not need other labels on your products), some rely on the quality of their work and the open invitation to visit their farms as their certification (it's our favorite kind).
Puro Import
Pietro Nicotra and Vincenzo Costanza started Puro Import in Berlin with a straightforward idea: build direct, transparent relationships with small Italian producers who go beyond organic certification, and bring their products to the city’s restaurants, cafés, and food shops with the knowledge and care those products deserve. Anyone who has worked in Berlin’s food scene over the past decade has almost certainly crossed their path.Our connection with them goes back further than Puro itself. Alessandro first met Pietro at Markthalle Neun, where Alessandro was selling Barlotti’s mozzarella and Pietro was promoting his family’s olive oil. When that chapter ended, Pietro and Vincenzo took Barlotti into their own roster — which says a lot about who they are. The relationship has since taken just about every shape possible: supplier and customer at Vom Einfachen das Gute and Archipel, then two years of Alessandro working inside the Puro family as Operations Manager. At Archipel, when Adrien — another of Oddkin’s founders — was running the place, Puro was always one of its key suppliers. So by the time Oddkin came around, Pietro and Vincenzo were naturally one of Oddkin’s most important partners and biggest supporters from the very start. Some things just stick.
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Rocket Wine
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Umbio
Umbio is a small organic farm run by Annegret Brall and her team in Grünheide, in the Uckermark — about 90 minutes north of Berlin. They tend over 100 old apple varieties on their Streuobstwiesen, traditional meadow orchards that rank among the most biodiverse habitats in Central Europe, alongside a market garden, beehives, and their own on-site press. We first came across Umbio through Adrien, one of Oddkin’s founders, during his time at Archipel. When that project wound down, they were at the top of our list for the new lineup — and we’re glad they were just as happy.
Wines and Soft Drinks
We are incredibly happy to kickstart Oddkin with this collaboration: Artisanal wines carefully selected by our favorite distributor—and wine bar!—in Berlin: Sara from Balera Weinhandlung.
There's a bit of everything: some are classic and pleasantly familiar in taste and look, some are a bit more on the wild side.Reds, whites, Orange, Rosé, Pet Nat: all the main boxes are checked, but if you have other favorite bottles from Balera's shelves, do reach out and we'll make sure to add them to the Oddkin catalogue.
Obviously we couldn't forget about the amazingly practical bag-in-box wines: we selected the ones from Valli Unite and Folicello, but we can add more if you like. Last but not least: gorgeous fizzy drinks from Sicily through our other dear friends Vincenzo and Pietro from Puro Import.
