Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Canelli from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Canelli
San Marco and Enoteca di Canelli - Casa Crippa serve Piedmontese cuisine with tasting menus and extensive, sommelier-led wine lists. Gancia produces sparkling wine in Canelli and has UNESCO-recognized underground cellars.
San Marco is a long-established restaurant in Canelli serving traditional Piedmontese Italian cooking with a tasting menu and à la carte service. Its wine list is extensive and sommelier-led, and the venue carries repeated Michelin Plate recognition plus a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence.
Enoteca di Canelli - Casa Crippa is a family-run restaurant in Canelli with a modern Piedmontese approach and an exceptional wine program. It serves tasting menu and à la carte formats in a former historic wine cellar, with Michelin Plate recognition in recent years.
Gancia produces Italian sparkling wine in Canelli. Its UNESCO-recognized underground cellars beneath the town have cathedral spaces carved from calcareous tuff. The winery holds a Falstaff Winery listing for 2026.
Gancia, Cantina Contratto, and Coppo have underground cellars in Canelli. Their wines include sparkling styles, with Coppo also producing Piedmontese still wines.
Gancia produces sparkling wine in Canelli and has UNESCO-recognized cellars beneath the town. Their cathedral spaces are cut into calcareous tuff. The winery holds a Falstaff Winery listing for 2026.
Cantina Contratto is a historic sparkling-wine house in Canelli founded in 1867. Its UNESCO-recognized underground cathedral cellars support traditional-method aging, and the winery produces Alta Langa DOCG with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. It holds a Falstaff Winery listing for 2026.
Coppo has underground wine cathedrals in Canelli used for aging Barbera, Barolo, Barbaresco, and classic-method sparkling wines. Its portfolio includes Barbera, Nebbiolo, Moscato Bianco, and Chardonnay, with modern tasting rooms alongside the historic cellars. It holds Falstaff Winery 3 Stars recognition in 2026.
Canelli has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. San Marco and Enoteca di Canelli - Casa Crippa both hold Michelin Plate recognition, with Michelin Plate awards in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Canelli and Regione San Giovanni matter most for serious wine visits. Canelli holds Gancia, Cantina Contratto, and Coppo, while Regione San Giovanni adds L'Armangia and Ca' De Lion Ghione dal 1871, giving the city its clearest concentration of cellar visits and tastings.
San Marco and Enoteca di Canelli - Casa Crippa have the city’s strongest restaurant wine programs in our guide. Both are in Canelli, both are exceptional, and San Marco adds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence to its extensive, sommelier-led list.
San Marco holds Canelli’s only Wine Spectator Award of Excellence in our guide. Its list is extensive and sommelier-led, and it sits alongside Michelin Plate recognition from 2024 to 2026.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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A temple to Piedmontese tradition, San Marco in Canelli serves impeccably crafted classics—agnolottini del plin, Raschera cardoons, and a famed dessert trio—in a timeless, linen-dressed dining room with an elegant regional wine list.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised family restaurant in a late-19th-century palazzo on Canelli's main corso, Enoteca di Canelli - Casa Crippa serves regional Monferrato and Langhe cuisine with a careful contemporary edge. The setting is a former historic wine cellar, and dishes like carne cruda alla monferrina with Parmesan cream and hazelnuts show how Piedmontese tradition is handled here: with precision and restraint, not spectacle. Mid-range pricing makes this one of the more accessible addresses in the Asti wine country.
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Gancia sits at the heart of Canelli, the Piedmontese town whose underground cathedral cellars helped define Italian sparkling wine.
Canelli, Italy
One of Piedmont's most storied grappa houses, Distilleria Bocchino operates from Canelli, the subterranean cathedral town at the heart of Asti Spumante country.
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Arione places Canelli’s sparkling-wine heritage in a practical, family-run frame rather than a grand-estate performance. The draw is Piedmontese range: Asti DOCG, Moscato d’Asti DOCG, Barbera, Dolcetto, Roero Arneis, wine-based aperitif formats, and an alcohol-free sparkling line, all tied to Langhe and Monferrato rather than a single luxury cuvée narrative.
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Bocchino Giuseppe is a family-run Canelli winery shaped by hillside farming, loam-and-limestone soils, and a Piedmont portfolio that moves from Moscato d’Asti Canelli to Nizza, Cortese, Barbera, Nebbiolo, Freisa, and Chardonnay. The draw is not trophy culture; it is a compact estate reading of Asti wine traditions, with appointment-led hospitality and a relaxed rural tone.
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Bosca is a Canelli sparkling-wine visit built around subterranean production cellars rather than a conventional tasting room. The draw is the UNESCO-recognized Underground Cathedrals: cool vaulted tunnels, working bottles, and a light-and-sound installation that frames Piedmont’s spumante tradition through place, temperature, and time.
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A historic family-run Canelli winery founded in 1871, with cellar tastings, estate visits, and a portfolio rooted in Moscato, sparkling styles, and Piedmont reds. The appeal is not luxury theater but regional continuity: old-vine hillside context, a traditional cellar setting, and wines that place Canelli’s soils and sweet-sparkling heritage in the foreground.
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Cantina Contratto is a historic sparkling-wine house in Canelli, founded in 1867 and tied to Italy’s early Metodo Classico tradition. Its pull is the combination of Alta Langa DOCG production, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from high Langhe elevations, and monumental underground cellars carved into tufa rock, now part of Canelli’s UNESCO-recognised wine heritage.
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Coppo gives Canelli wine tourism its strongest architectural argument: 18th-century tufa cellars beneath Monferrato, now part of the UNESCO-listed vineyard cultural site, paired with a Piedmont portfolio led by Barbera, Nebbiolo, Moscato Bianco and Chardonnay. The experience is quiet, historic and terroir-led, with modern tasting rooms and a rooftop perspective over vineyards and hill villages.
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Gabriele Scaglione is a small Canelli winery experience built around vineyard time, private tastings, and Piedmont’s familiar quartet of Nebbiolo, Barbera, Moscato, and Dolcetto. The appeal is less about grand-cellar theatre than scale: a quiet, appointment-led format where the hills, vines, and producer-led context carry the visit.
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L’Armangia reads Canelli through Moscato bianco Canelli, Barbera, and a family cellar culture that reaches back well before the modern wine-tourism circuit. The draw is the scale: barrel-room tastings, vineyard views, and a quiet Piedmontese setting where the UNESCO-recognized hills matter as much as the labels poured.
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Scagliola Giacomo e Figlio is a low-key family winery in Canelli, tied to Moscato d’Asti, Canelli DOCG and the hillside culture between Langhe and Monferrato. The interest here is not spectacle but territorial continuity: a producer founded in 1950, working with Moscato Bianco, Barbera, Dolcetto and Nebbiolo, with guided tastings and winery tours by reservation.
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Tosti1820 is a tradition-led Canelli cellar rooted in Moscato Bianco territory, with a history reaching back to 1820 and a focus on Moscato Bianco and Pinot Noir. The draw is less spectacle than place: guided tastings, a quiet cellar atmosphere, organic production cues, and a format that suits travelers who want Piedmont wine culture at close range.
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Villa Giada is a historic wine estate in Canelli, set into the Langhe-Monferrato hills with a cellar core dating to 1790. Its strongest editorial case is terroir: Barbera, Nizza DOCG, Moscato Bianco and Nebbiolo shaped by old farmhouses, vineyard parcels and a hospitality format built around cellar tastings, vineyard context and Piedmont wine education.
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