Fifteen wineries suggested by readers in the comments on our Instagram posts, from Sardinia to South Tyrol: who designed them, where they are, what they are made of.
For this selection we asked you. The fifteen wineries come from the comments on our two Instagram posts, and each one carries the name of the person who suggested it.
After our articles on the 14 Italian wineries where wine meets design and on the 15 Italian wineries to discover this autumn 2026, dozens of names arrived in the comments. We kept those that were not already in the two articles and whose project we were able to reconstruct: who designed it, where, when, with what materials.
These are the most beautiful design wineries in Italy according to Archi&Interiors readers, from Sardinia to South Tyrol. Nine of the fifteen sink, wholly or partly, into the ground, a hillside or a quarry. Castellaro in Lipari and Ca’ Marcanda in Bolgheri are entirely underground, Meraviglia occupies a former quarry, Monte Rossa is built underground and Moncalisse hides its barrel cellar below ground. In the autumn selection we had already met Le Mortelle, Pieropan and Zýmē: here the theme becomes a majority. The other six work on the visible volume, from the façade of Kurtatsch to the exposed concrete of Dornach.
The itinerary starts from the islands and the south, as we promised in our replies to the comments, and moves north. It follows geography and is not a ranking.
Islands and South: Sardinia, the Aeolians, Etna, Salento
Four wineries, four materials: the red earth of the Nurra, the subsoil of Lipari, the lava stone of Etna, the drawing of the agave in Salento.
Podere Guardia Grande, Alghero
In the Nurra, near Fertilia, the Podere Guardia Grande winery is the wine project of the Veronesi family. The studio Casciu Rango Architetti kept a single storey above ground, the wide glass hall, punctuated by the triangular pillars of the portico. Inside, the ceilings are vaulted, with varying geometries inside a rigid perimeter. The fit-out is by Antonio Marras and the tones of the local red earth return in the spaces. Domus published it in August 2024.
Suggested by the community: @mariacrimarongiu and @giusy.carotti.
Tenuta di Castellaro, Lipari
On the Castellaro plain, in Lipari, the winery is completely underground and rises vertically over three levels, for about 2,000 square metres. The project is by the architects Michele Giannetti and Alessandro Dalpiaz. The idea starts from the traditional underground dwellings of the Aeolian Islands, and the vertical layout lets gravity do the work in racking, cutting energy use. In the barrel cellar, the columns tell the geological history of Lipari and echo the island’s Norman Cloister.
Suggested by the community: @srv.architetti.
Pietradolce, Solicchiata
On the northern slope of Etna, at Solicchiata, a hamlet of Castiglione di Sicilia, Pietradolce is the winery of the Faro family. The project is by the architect Giuseppe Scannella: a block with strong linear forms, built in lava stone, timber and iron to fit the vertical landscape of the volcano. The estate describes it as a place where art and craftsmanship shape contemporary spaces tied to the territory.
Suggested by the community: @degustetna.
Tormaresca, San Pietro Vernotico
At San Pietro Vernotico, in the Salento area of Brindisi, the winery at Masseria Maìme belongs to Tormaresca, the Marchesi Antinori project in Puglia. The design of parallel strips reworks the structure of the agave and recalls the rows of the vineyards, and the central block holds both the bottling hall and the traditional barrique cellar. The project appears in the portfolios of two studios, aei progetti of Florence and asv3 of Cesena, which lists concept design and artistic direction between 2006 and 2008.
Suggested by the community: @andrearizzo.83.
Tuscany: Maremma, Bolgheri and Terricciola
Four projects between the coast and the Pisan hills. For the most recent Tuscan architecture there is also the Premio Architettura Toscana 2026.
Tenuta Ammiraglia, Magliano in Toscana
In the Maremma of Grosseto, Frescobaldi entrusted the Ammiraglia winery to Piero Sartogo and Nathalie Grenon (Sartogo Architetti Associati), with Maurizio Pappalardo. The project is dated 2004-2008 and presents itself as a cut in the slope: a lifted strip of earth opens a thin, elongated slit, a window that frames the landscape. The curving profile follows the contour lines and projects towards the sea like the prow of a ship.
Suggested by the community: @michy.75.
Cantina Meraviglia, Castagneto Carducci
At Donoratico, a hamlet of Castagneto Carducci, Cantina Meraviglia was carved out of the former Cariola quarry for Alejandro Bulgheroni and his family, and was inaugurated in 2025. The building descends over three levels under a green roof, between the high rock walls of the quarry, with the rock entering the winery. The idea is by Studio Bernardo Tori. It serves two estates, Tenuta Meraviglia and Tenuta Le Colonne.
Suggested by the community: @gilkgilk74 and @danielanencini.
Ca’ Marcanda, Bolgheri
At Bolgheri, in the municipality of Castagneto Carducci, Ca’ Marcanda is Angelo Gaja’s Tuscan winery. Construction was overseen by Giovanni Bo, a long-time collaborator of Gaja, and the winery is completely underground, integrated into the landscape. The first vineyards were planted in 1996 and building began two years later, with the idea of immersing the winery in the wild beauty of the place.
Suggested by the community: @fpaleari79.
Podere La Chiesa, Terricciola
At Terricciola, in the province of Pisa, in the Casanova valley, Podere La Chiesa is a concrete block set into the hillside, designed in 2016 by Andrea Mannocci of AND studio. The plan is polygonal, about 30 by 37 metres, with two interior levels and a maximum height of 8.5 metres. The smooth façades are a single pour seven metres high. The small openings echo those of the houses in the nearby village and draw a pattern reminiscent of a bunch of grapes.
Suggested by the community: @baba_bullet_74.
Veneto and Lombardy: Valpolicella, Montello, Franciacorta
Two wineries in Veneto and two in Lombardy, between a headquarters that evokes dry-stone walls and a visitor route built around an oak tree.
Monteleone21 (Masi), Gargagnago di Valpolicella
At Gargagnago, in Valpolicella, Monteleone21 is the new headquarters of Masi. The project starts from an idea by the architect Libero Cecchini and was reinterpreted and built by Giovanna Mar with her Venetian studio. The architecture evokes the marogne, the dry-stone walls that have protected the terraced vineyards for centuries. The visitor route includes the historic Masi cellars and the art installation by Fabrizio Plessi.
Suggested by the community: @endriugreg and @monicaagliati.
Giusti Wine, Nervesa della Battaglia
On the Montello, at Nervesa della Battaglia, in the province of Treviso, the Giusti Wine winery opened in 2020 to a design by the architect Armando Guizzo. It is largely underground: five floors that descend as far as eight metres below ground, with just two levels above ground under a green roof that follows the morphology of the terrain. The project also recovered the existing farm buildings and restored the old rectangular courtyard, 20 by 30 metres.
Suggested by the community: @fiorenzazampieri, @5kcve, @nicolettapinter66, @sommelieracademy and @ester_zanatta.
Ca’ del Bosco, Erbusco
At Erbusco, in Franciacorta, Ca’ del Bosco has redone its visitor route. The new reception, completed in 2021 to a design by Gabriele Falconi (Falconi architettura), is a ring built with LignoAlp on the footprint of a car park, around an oak tree. From there the route crosses the vault linking the historic spaces to the Vinoteca, with wines produced since 1972, and an inclined tunnel, in accelerated perspective, leading to the historic barrel cellars. In the winery spaces Maurizio Zanella has gathered works by Arnaldo Pomodoro, Botero and Mitoraj. To eat nearby, see our ten restaurants with a cellar in Franciacorta.
Suggested by the community: @elettro69, @attiliobernuzzi, @doriano_53, @tizianatod and @onavfranciacorta.
Monte Rossa, Cazzago San Martino
In the Barco hamlet of Cazzago San Martino, Monte Rossa opened in 2022, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Rabotti family company, an underground winery costing around ten million euros. It rises over three levels linked by a central staircase: production at the bottom, offices in the middle, hospitality and shop at the top. The project is by the studio MP Engineering, led by Pierangelo Scaroni with the architect Luigi Serboli. The historic house at Bornato remains in operation.
Suggested by the community: @mariocauc and @camgaleazzi.
Trentino-South Tyrol: Monte Calisio, Salorno, Cortaccia
A newly opened winery in Trentino and two in South Tyrol: a sinusoidal form among the vines, an exposed-concrete volume, a façade that acts as a backdrop to the Dolomites.
Moncalisse, Civezzano
On Monte Calisio, at Civezzano, in the province of Trento, the sisters Julia and Karoline Walch opened the Moncalisse winery on 26 May 2026, devoted to Trentodoc Riserva Metodo Classico. It was designed by the architects David Stuflesser and Nadia Moroder with a sinusoidal form that emerges from the vine rows like something natural and unexpected. Below there is an underground, theatrical barrel cellar.
Suggested by the community: @taniadolcecasa, @marandinam, @arch_federicorudari and @walter.fortuna.9.
Ansitz Dornach, Salorno
At Salorno, in South Tyrol, the biodynamic estate Ansitz Dornach of Patrick and Karoline Uccelli has a new winery in exposed concrete: a volume with rigorous lines, its north-west façade almost entirely glazed and wide terraces over the terraced vineyards and the Adige valley. Access is from the upper floor, where the shop for the estate’s biodynamic products is located. In 2025 the winery received the CasaClima Wine plaque.
Suggested by the community: @morenojepferlat.
Cantina Kurtatsch, Cortaccia
At Cortaccia, on the South Tyrolean Wine Road, Cantina Kurtatsch opened in 2020, for its 120th anniversary, an extension by Silvia Dell’Agnolo and Egon Kelderer. The building lives almost entirely in its façade, which rises like a theatre backdrop in front of the Dolomite walls and presents itself as a continuation of the Dolomites.
Suggested by the community: @francogira11, @wine_in_luggage, @luigi.marchioni_art, @m.petriella and @arch_federicorudari.
Other wineries our readers suggested
The list of your suggestions is longer than fifteen. Waiting for a future chapter, among others, are Colterenzio, Kante, Vie di Romans, Donnafugata, Bellavista, Il Borro, Zaccagnini, Amastuola, Caravaglio, Luigi Maffini and Caggiano. Keep sending us names in the comments. To sleep in a winery, see our guide to wine resorts in Italy.
Frequently asked questions about the most beautiful design wineries in Italy
How were the 15 community wineries chosen?
They are the ones readers suggested in the comments on our two Instagram posts about design wineries. We left out those already in our two earlier articles on design wineries and kept those whose project and designers we were able to reconstruct.
How many of the wineries in the selection are underground?
Nine out of fifteen, wholly or partly: Podere Guardia Grande, Tenuta di Castellaro, Tenuta Ammiraglia, Cantina Meraviglia, Ca’ Marcanda, Podere La Chiesa, Giusti Wine, Monte Rossa and Moncalisse.
In which regions are the wineries chosen by the community?
In Sardinia, Sicily (the Aeolian Islands and Etna), Puglia, Tuscany, Veneto, Lombardy, Trentino and South Tyrol.
