Emidio Pepe, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Casa Pepe, 2022 SPCOUNT0125 and warm flint minerality

and warm flint minerality

This is Enzo Pontoni's classic Sauvignon

It's still the estate's flagship: a Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot blend (around 85/15) from biodynamically farmed terraces in Panzano in Chianti

This is deceivingly open today

and a high-rye mash bill that brings extra zip

Emidio Pepe, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Casa Pepe, 2022 SPCOUNT0125 and warm flint mineralityThese are the vines Emidio planted himself, and they finally have their own bottle. Casa Pepe sits roughly 300 meters from the Branella parcel, close enough to look interchangeable but different enough that soil studies with geologist Brenna Quigley convinced the family to separate them starting with the 2020 vintage. The vines went into the ground in the 1970s, put there by Emidio. The method has not budged since 1964: certified biodynamic farming,