Winery of "CRICOVA" tours, wine "CRICOVA" Moldova

Let me introduce you the elite products of Winery of “CRICOVA”. Connoisseurs from all over the world have preferred our wines for decades. And they are absolutely right, while Cricova sparkling and fine wines, produced with the best European traditions, fully deserve their fame.

Winery of “CRICOVA” is a real pearl of Moldovan wine-making. In the famous Cricova lime-stone adits, under careful custody of wine-makers, the excellent Moldovan wines are aged and preserved. The white wines are fine, delicate and tender, the red ones are unobtrusively rough, somewhat pushing and traditionally unforgettable. Our wines are very tasty and quite peculiar. This fact is confirmed by a flood of international prizes and different awards.

From year to year our skilful wine-makers fill the famous Cricova wine collection, in which ancient from all over the world are preserved. They are priceless. Visit to the Cricova Wine Tasting Halls is not only a trip to the wine country, but also a revel inevitable atmosphere of a mysterious Cricova underground.

Our sparkling wine brings luck. Do not scare away the whimsical fortune and celebrate everyoccasion with the noble beverages from “CRICOVA”!

Hoping for a fruitful and mutually beneficial cooperation.

Our Products:

* Classical sparkling wines:

Cricova (brut 0,75l) Cricova (dry 0,75l)

Cricova (s/dry 0,75l) Cricova (0,75l)

Moldova (brut 0,75l) Moldova (s/dry 0,75l)

Basarabia (0,75l) Cricova (3l)

Cricova (6l) Cricova (cryst. 1l/3l)

* Reservoir sparkling wines:

Cricova (s/sweet 0,2l) Cricova (s/sweet 0,75l)

Cricova (s/sweet 1,5l) Cricova (s/dry 0,75l)

Cricova (red 0,75l) Sovietscoie (0,75l)

* Collection wines:

Cabernet (0,7l) Codru (0,7l)

Dionis (0,7l) Pinot (0,7l)

Sauvignon (0,7l) Vin Nobil (0,7l)

Cahor (0,7l) Feteasca (0,7l)

* Fine (high quality wines):

Aligote (0,75l) Aligote (0,187l)

Cabernet (0,75l) Cabernet (0,187l)

Codru (0,75l) Codru (0,187l)

Chardonnay (0,75l) Chardonnay (0,187l)

Dnestrovscoe (0,75l) Dnestrovscoe (0,187l)

Dionis (0,75l) Dionis (0,187l)

Pinot (0,75l) Pinot (0,187l)

Sauvignon (0,75l) Sauvignon (0,187l)

Vin Nobil (0,75l) Vin Nobil (0,187l)

* Ordinary wines:

Serenada (0,7l) Afrodita (0,7l)

Corsar (0,7l) Natali (0,7l)

Cabernet (0,75l) Merlot (0,75l)

Aligote (0,7l) Rcatiteli (0,7l)

PortWein (0,75l) Isabella (0,75l)





Winery of “CRICOVA” is the founder of production of high-quality elite wines and is truly considered the pearl of Moldovan wine-making.

The year of 1952. This is the year of foundation of the unique, majestic “CRICOVA” wine temple, known not only in Moldova, but widely abroad.

While visiting in 1952 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

The winery is situated at a depth of 50-80 meters under the ground. Natural lime-stone mines, that stretched out as a 60-kilometres ribbon on the slopes of a shallowed river, turned into the operating workshops.

But under the ground - there is an entire town! There are avenues, streets… there. Only their names are unusual: Feteasca Avenue, Caberne, Riesling, Aigote Streets. A prominent scientist - the wine-maker, Professor M. Gherasimov, after a visit to Cricova, wrote: "Cricova wine cellars in their capacities and wine storage facilities have no match in what I have seen before neither in our country, nor abroad".

WINERY of CRICOVA AWARDS, period of 1996-2003

* Super Grand Prix – classical collection semi-dry champagne – International Contest "Gold Gryphon" 2002

* Grand Prix – classical collection brut champagne - International Contest "Gold Gryphon" 2001.





Gold medals:

Wine denomination	Contest	Location	Year of award
White champagne "Cricova"	International Oenologic contest	Chisinau	1997
	Prodexpo	Moscow	1998
	International Contest “Gold Gryphon”	Yalta, Crimea	2002
	International Oenologic contest	Chisinau	2000
	“Novogodnii stol” (New Year table)	Ecaterinburg, Russia	2000
Classical collection champagne "Cricova" brut	International Oenologic contest	Yalta, Crimea	2001
	International Oenologic contest	Yalta, Crimea	2002
Collection wine "Dionis"	International Contest “Gold Gryphon”	Yalta, Crimea	2001
	International wine-making Contest	Chisinau	2001
Collection wine "Cabernet"	International Contest “Gold Gryphon”	Yalta, Crimea	2002
Classical red champagne "Cricova"	Prodexpo	Moscow	2002
Classical collection champagne "Cricova de Lux" brut	Prodexpo	Moscow	2003
"Cahor"	Prodexpo	Moscow	2003

Silver medals:

Wine denomination	Contest	Location	Year of award
Classical Red champagne “Cricova"	Autumn Fair –96	Sankt – Petersburg, Russia	1996
	International Contest “Gold Gryphon”	Yalta, Crimea	2002
	International Contest “Gold Gryphon”	Moscow	1998
Collection Wine "Codru"	International contest Vinmoldova	Chisinau	2000
	International wine and strong drinks contest	Bucharest, Romania	2000
White champagne "Cricova"	International Contest “Gold Gryphon”	Yalta, Crimea	2001
Vintage wine "Codru"	International Contest “Gold Gryphon”	Yalta, Crimea	2001
White champagne "Cricova"	International Oenologic contest	Chisinau	2001
Collection wine "Dionis"	International Oenologic contest	Chisinau	2002
Vintage wine "Dionis"	International Contest “Gold Gryphon"	Yalta, Crimea	2002
Classical collection champagne "Cricova"	Prodexpo	Moscow	2002
Classical champagne "Basarabia"	Prodexpo	Moscow	2003

Bronze medals

Wine denomination	Contest	Location	Year of award
Champagne "Cricova Muscat"	International wine and strong drinks contest	Chisinau	2002
“Chardonnay 2002"	International contest "CHARDONNAY DU MONDE”	Bordeaux, France	2003

 

Annex:

• * - Excursion included visiting of sections of winemaking of vintage and sparking wines, the National collection and wine tasting complex.





• ** - Wine tasting included


1. White ordinary wine from line “Orasul subteran”

2. White vintage wine

3. White collection wine

4. Red ordinary wine from line “Orasul subteran”

5. Red vintage wine

6. Red collection wine

7. White sparking muscat wine “Cricova”

8. White classic psrking wine “Criciova” (brut)

9. Red classic sparking wine “Cricova” (sweet)




• *** - Snacks : cheese, biscuits, nuts, chocolate, mineral water (without gas)





• Souvenir set “Cricova” (which is included into tourist package) consist of :


- White classic psrking wine “Criciova” – 1 bottle.

- Red ordinary wine from line “Orasul subteran”– 1 bottle

- Cutie souvenir 2*0,75 – 1 pc

- Booklet “Cricova”