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====Area of origin and wind classification==== | ====Area of origin and wind classification==== | ||
[[File:Fleur de sel2.jpg|200px|right]] | [[File:Fleur de sel2.jpg|200px|right]] | ||
''Fleur de sel'' panned in [[Burgundie]] is classified by region, which roughly equate to the constituent countries: [[Ile Burgundie]], | ''Fleur de sel'' panned in [[Burgundie]] is classified by region, which roughly equate to the constituent countries: [[Ile Burgundie]], Nostrestran, and [[Faramount]]. Some salt farmers in [[Faramount]] and Nostrestran take it even further and add a subclassification the tells which direction the wind was blowing on the day of harvest. | ||
The wind direction is relevant to refined consumers because if the wind is coming off the ocean on the day of harvest it is moister and so is the salt, if it is coming of the land, it is drier and so too is the salt. In [[Faramount]] this label has become regulated and it was simplified as ''fleur de sel prene l'aire della (mer/terre)'' (Eng: flower of salt taking the air from the (sea/land)). | The wind direction is relevant to refined consumers because if the wind is coming off the ocean on the day of harvest it is moister and so is the salt, if it is coming of the land, it is drier and so too is the salt. In [[Faramount]] this label has become regulated and it was simplified as ''fleur de sel prene l'aire della (mer/terre)'' (Eng: flower of salt taking the air from the (sea/land)). | ||