The Coffee Club Association intends to open a coffee museum in Chisinau and set up a statue of chancellor Tautu, who is thought to be the first Moldovan that tasted this drink, Info-Prim Neo reports. “It is 500 years since chancellor Tautu was sent by Bogdan Voda as emissary to the Turks, who gave him coffee to drink. Tautu drank it as if it was a glass of wine and bowed wishing good health. This fact is related by chronicler Ioan Neculce. This is how the culture of coffee appeared in our country,” Alexandru Stucalov, the director of the Coffee House chain told a news conference on January 16. The coffee was served not only in the houses of noblemen, but also in the taverns that were frequently attended by the then intellectuality, civil servants of lower ranks and students, he added. The statue of chancellor Tautu is designed by Alexandru Jiclitscky from Studio Art. “We will ask the City Hall to identify a place where we could put the statue,” Stucalov said. Nicolae Sarbu, the director of the Romcoffe café chain, said that they have worked in Moldova for 10 years and the number of coffee drinkers in Moldova has increased meanwhile. He also said that the Moldovans prefer different types of coffee. The instant coffee is now more often replaced with grinded coffee.