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Cricova wine cellars

Moldova / Chisinau / Ungureanu, 1
 restaurant, winery, interesting place

The Sparkling and Fine Wines Enterprise "Cricova" is the founder of production of high-quality elite wines and is truly considered the pearl of Moldovan wine-making.
The year of 1953. This is the year of foundation of the unique, majestic "Cricova" wine temple, known not only in Moldova, but widely abroad.
While visiting in 1953 the abandoned underground adits, where sawed stone of shell-rock has been mined and used as a building material for civil-industrial sites, the ancestor of wine production, Mr. Piotr Ungureanu and others, discovered a microclimate, ideal for dry and sparkling wines storage. Here, a constant temperature of 10-14 C and high level of humidity of 95-98 % are kept all the year round.
After the clearing of sawed stone waste and some insignificant works on deepening, communication and asphaltation, fine wine materials of 50 thousand dal. per year has been brought here, and, firstly in the Republic, in 1955 it has been started the production (in small installments of 50 -150 bottles per year) of sparkling wines by "CHAMPENOISE" method - with the second fermentation of wine in the bottle
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Coordinates:   47°8'56"N   28°51'31"E