00:02Naxos Graviera is one of Greece's most famous and important hard cheeses. It has held protected
00:08designation of origin status since 1996 and its popularity has long extended beyond Greece's
00:14borders with exports reaching 20 countries. In 2025 it was named the world's best cheese by
00:19the international gastronomy platform Taste Atlas. This hard cheese is considered one of
00:24Greece's leading export products and it's suitable for a wide range of culinary uses.
01:13The Naxos Union produces this premium cheese using milk exclusively from animals raised and kept on the island
01:19following traditional cheese making practices at every stage of the process.
01:23The Naxos Union produces this premium cheese using milk exclusively from animals raised and kept on the island
01:24The first cheese is the gala and it is located in close places so we have the opportunity to
01:31combine it and it comes to the tyroscope where it depends on a particular choice to see if it is
01:39ok and the cheese is correct and then it has a thermal operation so that it is the final product
01:45that
01:46is the cheese, Graviera.
01:47Sales could double or even triple their current levels but declining milk production is limiting the
01:52quantities available with exports also running below the levers recorded in the past. Even so the cheese
01:59remains the flagship of the island's export products.
02:02The production of the Naxos Union has a lot of difficulties. We are not in the European
02:07Greece, the farmers are not able to reach easily, they cost them, all these are difficulties.
02:14For me, the companies are to be able to be able to accommodate the cheese in the island and as
02:20a result.
02:20Because if the cheese is adopted, the luggage of the produce, I can say that the
02:27produce is what my students would say.
02:29Peace of cake!
02:30Bip!
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02:33Bip!
