# Leuntea-Vin

- **Type:** Experience
- **Language:** en
- **Offered by:** The moldova.travel catalogue
- **Region:** Ștefan Vodă and the Lower Nistru
- **Category:** Wine
- **Coordinates:** 46.654588, 29.582668
- **Tags:** Routes of life, Rutele vieții, Vinării, Wineries, Винодельнии, Пути жизни
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-21T20:07:10+03:00
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- **This document:** https://travel.evisoft.com/en/experiences/207-leuntea-vin.md

## Description

The family-run Leuntea Winery enjoys one of the most storied histories in Moldovan wine making, with its vintages supplying the Russian imperial court beginning in Tsar Alexander I‘s reign in the early 1800s. The Cissa family’s operation also boasts Moldova’s oldest wine cellars. Turkish occupiers built the tunnels that would become Leuntea’s wine storage area in the 1500s. The winery began using them to age vintages in 1817. Making the winery’s reputation even more lustrous is the fact that many celebrities have visited the operation in the past two centuries. They included the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and two Russian generals. One general, Mikhail Vorontsov, helped defeat Napoleon, then became governor-general of the Moldovan and Ukrainian territories of Bessarabia and Novorossia. The other general, Ivan Liprandi, who also took part in the Napoleonic wars, provided material about them to Leo Tolstoy for his epic novel “War and Peace.” Two generations of the Cissa family are involved in the Leuntea Winery’s operations these days. In addition to the cellars and 18 hectares of vineyards, the family owns a mansion that is the centerpiece of the complex. Although the winery’s heralded past is always in the back of the family’s mind, it works hard to produce vintages that tantalize today’s consumers.

## Photos

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