Through the Apokoronian origins products we aim to offer a taste of pure Crete, the very best of this unique land.
All our products come strictly from the region of Apokoronas, Chania, Crete. Where tradition is an attitude to life. Pride and honor, a natural behavior. The black shirt, everyday’s dress code.
Here, agriculture is a way of living instead of an income source. It is practiced with love and respect, as the main objective is to feed the family first. Our products come from family estates instead of massive farming. That is why they are unique.
Apokoronas is everything we bear in mind when we think of Crete. The images, the music, the customs, the aromas and mostly, the taste of food. These tastes are “the Apokoronian origins”.
Our region has a unique geographic diversity, as it includes part of the White Mountains, semi-mountainous lands, the fertile plain of Apokoronas, rivers from the White Mountains running through it, the largest lake of Crete (Lake Kournas), and a coastline at North Cretan Sea from Souda bay to Rethymno prefecture.
This diversity, combined with the existence of plenty of spring water, forms a microclimate with particular characteristics that favors agricultural production (olive groves, vineyards, vegetables, citrus trees, avocados, kiwis, apiculture, herbs). Not accidentally, the olive oil produced exclusively in the area of Apokoronas, our olive oil, is protected by EU as PDO (Protected Designation of Origin).
Our honey is a flavorful combination of thyme, carob blossom, herbs, wild blossoms, conifers, citrus while our vinegar products, produced only with traditional maturing techniques and the addition of herbal essential oils, are a unique proposal for the entire product category.
Our superior quality organic herbs, a basic ingredient of the Cretan diet and well-being, renowned since antiquity for their medicinal properties, native only to the mountainsides and gorges of Crete, are Ideal as soothing, healing beverages as well as cooking herbs.
Pure Crete in every drop!