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Cricova

Famous small town in Moldova about 15 km north of the capital Chisinãu with about 14,500 inhabitants. It is also the centre of the wine-growing area of the same name. The town has become famous as the very first tourist attraction because of its underground tunnel system with one of the largest wine collections in the world. The 65-kilometre-long system of tunnels carved into the limestone is comparable to the large Chamapagne cellars in Champagne. Around half of it is used for wine storage. Around 1.25 million bottles of wine mature at depths of up to 100 metres and on an area of around 53 hectares. In one part there are tasting rooms. The underground streets with traffic lights and traffic signs are named after the wines stored in them, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Merlot.

Moldawien - Karte mit Weinbaugebieten und Cricova

The storage of bottled wines dates back to 1954. In 1967, the collection of the Cricova winery of the same name became the official collection of the Republic. This partly houses priceless old vintages from, for example, the famous wine estates Château Latour, Château Mouton-Rothschild and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. They are particularly proud of the only surviving example of "Mogit David's Easter Wine" from 1902 , which is said to be worth $100,000 today. Since the end of the Second World War, part of Hermann Göring's (1893-1946) notorious wine cellar has been kept here. Wine brandies are also stored here.

Map: By Perconte - transferred to Commons by Ireas using CommonsHelper, CC BY-SA 2.5, Link
Cricova: By Cepaev - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

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