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Plimakis Cheese Factory

The story of the traditional brine cheese “Asi Gonia” begins in 1949 when the father Stavros Plimakis, father of Sifis, cheese-fed his sheep milk in the mountains of Asi Gonia, a livestock village of the White Mountains on the border of Chania and Rethymno.

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Several years later, Sifis Plimakis, wanting to utilize his unit’s sheep milk, creates the traditional cheese factory Plimakis St. Joseph, a fully equipped and technologically advanced cheese factory that still uses the traditional forms of cheese making.

The Products of the Dairy

It is produced with 100% sheep’s milk made from animals that graze freely all year round and feed on Cretan’s aromatic herbs. These factors add special organoleptic characteristics and nutritional value to the cheese.