Sustainable Scottish sea salt

This special new sea salt is made in a unique and highly sustainable way: sea water from the west coast of Scotland is slowly trickled through a large graduation tower (the only one in the country) made from tightly packed blackthorn branches (pictured left). As the water drips slowly down the twigs and thorns, this maximises its exposure to the powerful coastal winds and sunshine, meaning that the droplets partially evaporate and any remaining liquid becomes a more concentrated brine. This brine is then gently heated to leave the sea salt crystals. This results in a really natural inished product, which has an o -white colour, delicate texture and unique taste – when blind-tested against other sea salts, we found it to have a more prominent taste of the sea and a nice mellowness. It also retains more natural minerals (particularly magnesium). It’s great as a inishing salt on meat and ish, or sprinkled over veg and tomatoes. £6.40 (240g), blackthornsalt.co.uk