Mileștii Mici () is a
Moldovan wine producer located in the commune of
Mileștii Mici.
Cellars
The State Enterprise Quality Wines Industrial Complex "Mileștii Mici" was founded in 1969 to store, preserve and mature high-quality wines.
Local ancient underground galleries reach the
Chişinău borders. The limestone in the galleries maintains constant humidity (85–95%) and temperature ()
throughout the year. The longer some specific
red wine
Red wine is a type of wine made from dark-colored grape varieties. The color of the wine can range from intense violet, typical of young wines, through to brick red for mature wines and brown for older red wines. The juice from most purple grap ...
s are stored in such ideal conditions, the more they improve. Some wines are cellared for several decades before being sold. The cellars extend for , of which only are currently in use.
In August 2005, Mileștii Mici was registered in the
Guinness World Records as the biggest wine collection in the world.
Largest wine cellar by number of bottles
guinnessworldrecords.com
Overall, the complex holds nearly 2 million bottles. More than 70% of the stored wines are red, 20% are white and about 10% are dessert wines. The most valuable items of this collection, worth €480 a bottle, were produced in 1973–74; they are now exported only to Japan.
Wines are exported from Mileștii Mici to Sweden, Japan, the USA, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Poland, Greece, Germany, Denmark, Finland, and China.
Wines
The wines stored here are made from crops of various years, beginning with 1969. Grapes include Pinot, Traminer, Muscat, Riesling, Dnestrovscoie, Milestscoie, Codru, Negru de Purcari Negru de Purcari is a dry, red Moldovan wine, produced from Cabernet Sauvignon, Rara neagră and Saperavi grapes. The wine has a dark ruby, saturated color.
Areas of production
The wine is produced in some Moldovan wineries, mainly in the Purcari ...
, Trandafirul Moldovei, Auriu, and Cahor-Ciumai.
References
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Wineries of Moldova
Moldovan brands
Wineries of the Soviet Union
Agricultural organizations based in the Soviet Union
Moldovan wine
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