Product: Solana Nin Smoked Sea Salt
Country: Croatia
Region: Dalmatia
Producer: Solana Nin
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Lift the lid and the smell is of a wood fire, rising from coarse, greyish brown crystals of sea salt that have taken on a warm, woody, smoky layer.

Solana Nin collects its salt by hand from the shallow lagoon of Nin on the Dalmatian coast, where salt has been made for more than 1,500 years. Every winter part of that natural sea salt is smoked slowly over natural wood in the salt works' own drying house on the slopes of Promina.

Use it as a finishing salt, with a pinch over grilled meat or fish, fried eggs, roasted vegetables or popcorn, or mix it into a barbecue rub. The small glass jar sits well on the table at a summer grill.

Solana Nin is a sea salt works in the shallow lagoon of Nin, in Zadar County on the Croatian Adriatic, with a history of more than 1,500 years and a Roman sluice gate still standing on its 55 hectares of salt fields. Production resumed in 1954 after about five centuries of pause, and the salt is still made by natural evaporation with sun and wind and collected by hand, while the flower of salt is gathered from the brine surface with a fine sieve. In 2022 the works received the EU Ecolabel, and today it also runs a salt museum and sells salt, flower of salt and salt based delicacies.