The two most famous sons of Canelli, Carlo Gancia (📸 Gancia) and Cesare Pavese, live long in the town’s memory.
The first, a winemaker, brought méthode champegnoise sparkling wine to Italy in 1867. Asti Spumante remains one of the most popular Italian wines to this day.
The second was a poet and novelist.
Pavese’s most famous work, La Luna e i Falò, (the Moon and the Bonfires), was an extended love letter to these hills which brought the region to the world imagination, not merely as a place, but as a living being.
No MTW trip better encapsulates this weaving of wine and literature better than Borderlands III – poetry & wine in Barbaresco and Monferrato. Enquire today.