2010 Emidio Pepe Montepulciano d’Abruzzo

Over a career spanning 50 vintages, the 2010 Montepulciano d'Abruzzo is a wine that Emidio thinks is one of the greatest he has made. Finally, after what has seemed like years, Emidio Pepe has decided the time is right, at seven years of age, to release the 2010 Montepulciano d'Abruzzo. 

120 bottles are available for the Australian market. We have 24 of those.

'The 2010 Montepulciano from Emidio Pepe has absolutely brilliant potential, and it is very easy to see why both Emidio and his daughter Sofia are so excited about the quality of this vintage. The bouquet is deep, pure and youthfully promising, offering up scents of black cherries, tar, balsam boughs, a fine base of dark soil, incipient notes of botanicals and a bit of chicory in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and nascently complex, with a fine core, firm, ripe tannins, tangy acids and a very long, focused and beautifully balanced finish that closes with excellent grip and bounce. This is still very early days for this wine, but it will prove to be an utter classic."  John Gilman