Farms, dairies, cooperatives and affineurs in Nemea that you can visit or buy from.
A guide to cheese farms in Nemea.
Family dairy at Kaliani, 700 m up in mountain Corinthia, making cheese since 1936: barrel-aged PDO feta, graviera, zireiotyri, anthotyro and mizithra, sold at a shop beside the plant.
Cheeses: Feta, Graviera, Zireiotyri, Anthotyro, Mizithra
Visiting: retail shop beside the dairy, open to visitors, the shop also sells fresh meat, pasta, spoon sweets and local fir honey
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Yes. The Greek application filed with the EU register lists Macedonia, Thrace, Thessaly, Central Mainland Greece, the Peloponnese and the Lesbos prefecture as the production area.
The Greek application says ripening continues until a total period of not less than 2 months is completed, in brine.
Sheep milk, or sheep milk mixed with goat milk, with the goat milk not exceeding 30 percent of the milk's net weight, according to the Greek application.
Regulation 1829/2002 says Greece protected the production area in 1988. A ministerial decision of 11 January 1994 recognised the PDO, and the EU registration in force dates from 2002.
Only three versions are, from Crete, Naxos and Agrafa, according to English Wikipedia. A graviera from Corinthia is sold under the plain name with no PDO.
Stymfalia sells it as a table cheese. English Wikipedia adds sliced, fried as saganaki, grated over pasta, in casseroles or in salads.
English Wikipedia says kefalograviera is a similar cheese sometimes sold outside Greece and Cyprus as kefalotyri. Kefalograviera has been an EU PDO since 1996; kefalotyri is not a protected name.
Katsouli suggests it on a cheese platter, grated over pasta or salads, or fried as saganaki.