Canella Specialty Winery

Canella Specialty Cocktails were first created in 1988 when Luciano Canella became the first producer to bottle Bellini successfully. The winery is in San Donà di Piave and Luciano’s children, Alessandra, Lorenzo, Nicoletta, and Monica, now run the winery together with Tommaso, the first of the third generation.

Points of Differentiation

• Three delicious flavors that can be enjoyed on their own or as aperitifs
• Made using Canella’s own sparkling wine and fresh fruit
• No artificial flavorings, no chemical tampering
• Low in Alcohol (only 5%), and only 60 calories per serving
• The first winery to successfully bottle Bellini

The History

The Canella winery was founded in 1947 after World War II by Luciano Canella. Luciano’s parents owned a small, restaurant in San Donà di Piave. Luciano began to search the surrounding areas for the best wines to match his mother’s cuisine when he thought about creating his own wine. He put this idea into action and set up a state-of-the-art winery specializing in Prosecco.

Canella Prosecco became a phenomenal success. Throughout the decades that followed, Luciano focused on spreading the word about his winery and branding his wines to make them easily recognizable.
However, the Canella family not only provides the world with fizz, fun, and freshness from Canella Proseccos; they have also become masters at blending those zesty bubbles with succulent fruit in delicious, colorful cocktails.

In 1988 Luciano had the idea to be the first to bottle Bellini. Up until this point, real Bellini was only enjoyed in Venice where the ingredients were available. The challenge Luciano faced was how to bottle the cocktail while retaining its pristine, juicy freshness. It took some trial and error, but ultimately Luciano was triumphant and more than 25 years later, the Canella’s dream has come to fruition. Canella Bellini stands as a benchmark of freshness and a tribute to Venetian creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.

With the success of Bellini, the Canella winery turned its attention to other cocktails including a vibrant Blood Orange Mimosa and Puccini.

The Terrior

For each cocktail, Canella is only willing to work with the highest quality materials, which begin with Canella’s sparkling wine.

From there, quality fruits are selected for each cocktail. In the case of Bellini, it was essential to the family that they were able to source quality white peaches. The Canellas agreed to emphasize freshness, and in 2004, they planted their peach orchards at San Donà.

They selected the Maria Bianca peach variety, which is renowned for its white pulp and flavorful juice. Maria Bianca’s combination of intense aromas and fine pulp is preserved by gently blending the fruit with Canella’s sparkling wine using state-of-the-art technology. By personally cultivating the fruit, the Canellas are able to achieve higher quality control and make sure that the fruit has fully ripened before picking.

In their Blood Orange Mimosa cocktail, Canella uses three varieties of oranges. These varieties are orchestrated to extract the best combination of flavors, fragrance, and color: Moro, known for its dark coloring, Tarocco which produces a sweeter taste than other varieties, and Sanguinello, which has delicate fruit pulp.