Cricova is known for its underground tunnel system with one of the largest wine collections in the world. Often referred to as the underground city, due to its size and importance, it is a tourist attraction comparable to the champagne cellars of Champagne. In the underground labyrinth with a 120 km long tunnel system, only half of the tunnels are used for wine storage. In one part there are tasting rooms. The underground streets are named after the wines they store: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay. In earlier years, in some places even today, limestone was quarried here.
At a depth of up to 100 m and an area of approx. 53 ha, approx. 1.25 million bottles of wine mature today. The Cricova winery houses one of the most extensive wine collections in Moldova. Since the end of the Second World War, part of Herrmann Göring's wine cellar has been stored here, the rest is in Crimea. The only surviving example of Mogit David's Easter wine from 1902 is here. In 1967 the collection of the Cricova Winery was proclaimed the official collection of the Republic. At that time it included 465 varieties of brandy, liqueur wines and wine.
Selected Cricova wines were delivered to the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Hungary in 1958. At the Ljubljana and Budapest International Wine Fairs, the Cricova vintage and varietal wines Fetească Alba and Aligoté won silver medals.
The sparkling wine production, analogous to the Méthode champenoise, is characteristic of the winery. Cricova is the only Moldovan winery and one of four wineries in the Commonwealth of Independent States that has been practicing this process since 1956.