Tasting Tour From Chania - Olive Oil, Wine, Cheese & Honey

In the village of Ano Vouves, you can admire the oldest recorded olive tree in the world, proclaimed as a natural monument. Although scientists can not be absolutely sure, its age is estimated between 3000 and 5000 years and still remains alive, fructifying until today. It had as a base a wild olive tree, and then became domesticated by humans via Tsounati variety. Its bole, chiseled by time as a sculpture, has a circumference of 12.5 meters and a diameter of 4.6 meters

Get the chance to see from extremely close a cheese factory and check the most delicious graviera cheese that is made with local ingredients from the cretan nature. Moreover, enter a traditional bakery that is producing daily local delicacies suck as cretan rusks, the traditional cretan koulouri and many more.

Visit a traditional olive mill, enter the olive barns of the Papatzanakis Family and get a close look of the olive trees as well as of the factory where olive oil is extracted with the most modern methods (cold extraction). Moreover, get a close look of the honeycombs and check how traditional honey is made. In the end of the tour, get the chance to taste 8 varieties of Honey and the most amazing extra virgin olive oil that you have tasted, alongside with local delicacies such as graviera cheese, baby tomatoes, cretan rusk, olives etc.

An amazing winery that is producing a variety of local wines and has been awarded with multiple awards at international contests. In this tour, you will have the chance to check the wine barns and also tour around the vineyard and the wine cellar in order to learn about the way this delicious wine is made. In the end of the tour, you will have the chance to taste approximately 8 varieties of awarded wine from the cretan nature, produces proudly by pnevmatikakis family.