smoky aroma and flavour

Opito Bay's award winning natural sea salt undergoes a meticulous 12-hour cold smoking process using locally sourced manuka wood. This careful technique imparts a refined smoky aroma and flavor, delicately enhancing your culinary creations while preserving their inherent natural taste.

Irresistible with slow cooked meats, grilled chicken, seafood, avocado smash or roasted vegetables.

Each new pack showcases artwork, inspired by the unique marine environment from which we harvest our seawater and the thoughtfully selected ingredients that define each blend and infusion. Additionally, these packs now contain 25% more product, offering even greater value and culinary inspiration.

Artisan Sea Salt

Our mission is to bring you an authentic natural New Zealand sea salt, using a salt making technique that’s thousands of years old. We aim to produce the best premium sea salt that reflects our the wonderful minerality present in our pure clean sea water. Small batches help us ensure you get quality natural sea salt every time. Each batch is subtly different as salt formation is influenced by heat. We get bigger crystals in the winter and slightly smaller ones in summer. It’s all part of a naturally produced product. 

Quality

Using some of the cleanest water in NZ certainly helps but that’s not the end of the story. One of the reasons our salt is unique is that we naturally evaporate sea water, which allows the wonderful trace minerals naturally present in the ocean to stay in the salt, adding to its briny flavour! Our salt is evaporated in purpose built solar tube houses which keep our salt beautifully pure and away from dust and other contaminants. We inspect our salt continuously through our process from harvest to packaging to make sure you’re getting a pure 100% genuine natural sea salt.

How to Store

Our sea salt is a true reflection of the beautiful and pure waters of Opito Bay. That means its unique flavour comes from the all the lovely natural trace elements and minerals present. And it’s this reason that the salt is slightly hygroscopic-which means it may absorb a little moisture over time. To keep our sea salt it in good condition, we recommend keeping it in a sealed container or salt pig/salt bowl.