Tasman Sea Salt
Highlights
- Discover the unique salt harvesting process at Tasman Sea Salt, connecting you to Tasmania's coastal landscape.
- Savour the subtle flavours of pure sea salt flakes during guided tastings, enhancing your culinary experiences.
- Experience the seasonal Wild Winter at The Salt Cellar, enjoying mulled cider and ocean views over Freycinet Peninsula.
- Join the Salt Sommelier Experience, pairing exquisite salts with local produce to elevate your palate and appreciation.
Set on Tasmania’s wild east coast, Tasman Sea Salt offers a rare chance to experience one of the island’s most distinctive food stories at its source.
Harvested from the pristine waters where the Southern Ocean meets the Tasman Sea, their sea salt is shaped by place — wind, sun, sea and time — and produced using a unique clean-energy process powered by solar, wind and ocean-derived thermal energy.
Visitors are invited behind the scenes of the working saltworks to discover how pure sea salt flakes slowly form, before tasting the subtle differences that place and process create. Choose from a range of immersive experiences, each designed to awaken the senses.
The Saltworks Tour offers an introduction to the harvesting process and the landscape that defines it, followed by a guided tasting of the signature salts. For a deeper dive, the Salt Sommelier Experience pairs salt tastings with carefully selected local produce, revealing how salt can shift, sharpen and elevate flavour.
In the cooler months, Wild Winter at The Salt Cellar invites guests to warm up with mulled cider, crisp ocean air and winter tastings overlooking the Freycinet Peninsula — a quiet, elemental experience rooted in season and place.
A visit to Tasman Sea Salt is a chance to slow down, taste Tasmania, and connect with the coast in a uniquely local way.
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Accreditations
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Quality Tourism Accreditation
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Sustainable Tourism Accreditation by ATIC
Features
Current offers
Wild winter at The Salt Cellar
Warm up with steaming mulled cider as you breathe in the crisp ocean air and watch brine transform into delicate sea salt flakes. Then head back to The Salt Cellar to taste pure sea salt harvested from the pristine waters of Tasmania’s east coast. Feel how salt shifts and sharpens flavour while enjoying the sweeping Freycinet Peninsula views. Available Fridays at 2pm.
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Employs people with disabilities.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
- Asks all visitors if there are any specific needs to be met.
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
- A quiet space is available at the venue/ facility.
Vision
Caters for people who are blind or have vision loss.
- Information in large print is available.
- Uses easy to read fonts in their signage and communication materials (Helvetica and Arial).
- An appropriate area for toileting an assistance dog is available.
- Exit signs which are visible at a ground level (high level signs are difficult to see in a fire) are available.
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
- Uses non-slip tiles in the bathroom or slip resistant matting
- Grab rails in the bathroom
- Seating in common areas including reception area
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
- Step free access to restaurant, lounge and bar
- Step free access to the conference or function room
- Doorways which are easy to open and have lever handles (doorways 850mm or wider when open and not heavy).
- An accessible public toilet which is unlocked.
- A wheelchair accessible toilet / shower and change room is available.
Allergies and intolerances
Caters for people with allergies and intolerances.
- Modify their cooking and cleaning practices to cater for people with food allergies or chemical intolerances (could include menus with meals free from: nuts, dairy, seafood, eggs, gluten etc).
- Staff are trained to respond to allergic reactions.
- Complies with The Food Authority requirements for allergy management in food preparation.
- Equipment to respond to anaphylactic shock such as epi–pens and defibrillator.
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