Emidio Pepe

Torano Nuovo · Teramo (TE)

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Established

1964

Emidio Pepe

Yearly production

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estate (Colline Teramane)

Location

Torano Nuovo, province of Teramo — the Colline Teramane in northern Abruzzo

Teramo (TE)

Vineyard area

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biodynamic vineyards on the Teramo hills, planted to Montepulciano, Trebbiano d'Abruzzo and Pecorino

Appellations

Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOCTrebbiano d'Abruzzo DOCColline Teramane Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOCG

History

Emidio Pepe founded his estate at Torano Nuovo, in the Colline Teramane of northern Abruzzo, in 1964, building on a family wine tradition that reaches back to Casa Pepe in 1889. At a time when local growers sold their wine young, Pepe set out to prove that Trebbiano and Montepulciano d'Abruzzo could age for decades — an idea then thought eccentric, now vindicated.

The method is famously artisanal: biodynamic farming, hand-harvest and hand-destemming, spontaneous fermentation, ageing in glass-lined cement, and long bottle-ageing in the cellar — with old vintages hand-decanted off their sediment before release. The wines are references of both traditional Abruzzo and the natural-wine world.

Now led by the fourth generation (sisters Daniela and Sofia) and the fifth (Chiara de Iulis Pepe), the estate makes long-lived Montepulciano d'Abruzzo and Trebbiano d'Abruzzo, plus Pecorino and Cerasuolo — its library of aged vintages among the most celebrated in Italy.

Wines

Illustrative selection

Montepulciano d'Abruzzo

Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC · Montepulciano

The estate's decades-age-worthy flagship red, hand-decanted when mature.

Trebbiano d'Abruzzo

Trebbiano d'Abruzzo DOC · Trebbiano Abruzzese

A famously long-lived white that redefined the grape's potential.

Pecorino

Colline Teramane Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOCG · Montepulciano

(Estate also bottles a Pecorino white; the top red qualifies for the Colline Teramane DOCG.)

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