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Emidio Pepe
Emidio Pepe - family winery since 1964
Emidio Pepe founded his winery in 1964 after working alongside his father and grandfather, who had been making wine since 1889 on their family vineyard in Torano Nuovo in Abruzzo. Today, it is still very much a family-run business, with several generations all participating in different aspects of the winery. The climate of Torano Nuovo balances the warmth of central Italy with the influences of the sea and the cold streams from the Gran Sasso Mountain. This creates a condition that allows a slow and progressive ripening of the fruit.
Ageing is the key to having refinement and elegance
Emidio’s ambition is to make the very best expression of the three local varieties: Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, Trebbiano, and Pecorino. For him, ageing is the key to having refinement and elegance, while at the same time preserving the youth and energy of the wines. Emidio was a pioneer of ageing in the region and the first to hold back bottles with consistency over the years. At least half of each production is stocked in the cellar and gets released only when the family thinks the vintage is at its best. Today, the ageing cellar holds more than 350,000 bottles.
A man who is extremely in tune with the land where everything is done by hand and no machines are used, he has always refused the use of chemical products and focuses his work on the achievement of lively and structured soil. Since 2005, the vineyard has embraced biodynamic agriculture. Pepe’s winemaking process follows the same philosophy and he “keeps the wine powerful and lets it face the long journey with as much energy as possible; which would be taken away by any kind of filtration.”
You can expect the Montepulciano to deliver bold energy, and intense structure and just as it does in the cellar benefits from the virtue of patience (we would recommend ten years) before showing its full potential. The whites can be austere in their youth but given the time to develop will reveal complex layers of flavours drawing on the saline backbone we love from the Abruzzo region.
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