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Mileștii Mici

Mileștii Mici (Ialoveni, near Chișinău) · Moldova

Cellar tours and collectible wine

What you’ll find

What Mileștii Mici is known for

Founded in 1969 in the limestone galleries of Ialoveni district south of Chișinău, Mileștii Mici holds a Guinness-recognised wine collection of roughly 1.5 million bottles known as the Golden Collection. Visitors drive through dozens of kilometres of underground roads before tasting the state cellar's reds and dessert wines.