02Salt
Everything here was raked at Kervalet this summer. Orders ship on Mondays and Thursdays from Batz-sur-Mer.
[125 g jar, cork lid]
€9.50
The surface crust, skimmed every evening in June, July and August. Soft, damp flakes, sometimes faintly pink. Add it at the end, at the table: it dissolves fast.
[1 kg linen bag]
€6.00
Grains raked from the clay floor of the pan, grey from the clay, about 13% moisture. For cooking water, brines and a fish baked in a salt crust.
[500 g kraft bag]
€5.00
Our sel gris, dried in the salorge and ground fine. The everyday salt for the kitchen and the table shaker.
03Why grey, why pink
Sel gris rests on the clay floor of the pan before it is raked, so it takes its colour from the clay. Fleur de sel forms on the surface and never touches the floor, so it stays white.
Some days it has a faint pink tint. That is Dunaliella salina, a single-celled alga of salt pans that is full of beta-carotene; its pink comes with a smell of violets.
Sel de Guérande and fleur de sel de Guérande have had a protected geographical indication in the EU since 2012.
04Order
Pick what you want and where it goes. We reply within a day with the total and a payment link, and ship the following Monday or Thursday.