Country of origin: Australia
Pure, unadulterated salt. Wild harvested in a collaboration of respect.
The Story:
Just 50km from the Mount Zero Olive grove in Western Victoria sits a vast salt lake with a striking pink hue. The lake is fed by natural salt aquifers and each summer dries out to reveal a bed of salmon coloured pink salt. Mount Zero and the Barengi Gadjin Land Council, representing the Wimmera's traditional land owners, hand harvest a small amount of salt from the lake each year in a respectful collaboration.
The local provenance of the salt, along with the hand harvesting, natural sun drying and the salt's beautiful flavour and colour are a mirror of Mount Zero's core principles of regionalism, sustainability and quality.
Through analysis of the salt we know that it is a concentrated store of natural mineral nutrients - rich in calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sulphur, iron, manganese, zinc and copper as well as being rich in beta carotene. This complexity of minerals, provides a complex, well rounded flavour - dissimilar to many sharp tasting refined salts.
Mount Zero Pink Lake Salt is a natural product which varies in pigment from wet to dry. As it dries the pink salt lightens to a much softer pink.
