Cheese from Island of Pag

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I wrote to a company on the Island of Pag, inquiring whether it sells its cheese in the USA and, if not, whether it would be interested in establishing a distribution point for North America (not that I know anything about setting up such a distribution process). I got a quick reply, which follows:

Dear sir,

Thank you for your interest in our cheese. We didn't export any cheese to US or Canada yet, but we are interested in having our cheese overseas.
Pag cheese is hard cheese produced exclusively from sheep milk from island of Pag. It is in a process of getting international DPO (Denomination of Protected Origin), and we have approval to export it in EU states. Our company produce about 40 tonnes of Pag cheese per year. Its price is 16 eur/kg (without taxes and transport costs).
More about us you can see at www.sirena.hr

Best Regards,

Sime Gligora
Sirena - mala sirana d.o.o.

Kolan, otok Pag.

I learned something; the cheese is produced from sheep (not goat) milk and is pretty damn pricy! 16 euro/kg translates into roughly $9.20 per pound (if I calculated correctly), without any shipping and taxes. It would be astronomically high in the the U.S., I am afraid. I also learned my first taste of what was called "goat cheese from the Island of Pag" may not have been the real deal; it was soft and very sharp flavored. Later, I had a similarly-flavored, though hard, cheese, that sounds more like what these folks are selling.