1985 Emidio Pepe Montepulciano d'Abruzzo

Community Tasting Notes (52) Avg Score: 93.6 points

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  3/31/2023 - kenv Likes this wine: 94 Points

  [Decanted around 4pm. Back in the bottle around 5pm.] Needed time in the glass. I suspect we drank it too fast to fully appreciate its complexity. Still, with fresh Pappardelle Bolognese, it shines.

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  11/21/2022 - rinnocenzi Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Crazy how this wine is still great.

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  9/26/2020 - oldwines Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Decanted at 6PM From 750ml bottle and tasted repeatedly over 5 hours. Not nearly as wonderful a bottle as the previous one 2 years ago. The nose was lovely with florals, tobacco, leather and cherry along with a smokey background but the palate lacked the wow factor I remember and noted previously. There was certainly a nice elegance about the wine and a core of cherry fruit along with the earthy notes but it was lacking that little extra I expected from my previous experience. I wouldn’t say this was too old by any means, it looked and smelled wonderful with no real oxidative elements and frankly went well with the veal Milanese I made for dinner but the finish was short and lacked some depth. One magnum remaining in the cellar...?

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  9/20/2020 - dbkitc wrote: 96 Points

  Wow. Mahogany red. Initially peaty nose: celery salt, saline, leather, dried cherry. Smooth, noticeable acid. Fruit, meat and Worcestershire emerge with time. Crazy and awesome. The best of the night. (96)

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  3/27/2019 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points

  Incredible aromatics, floral but different and complex. Really, really lively. Palate thins out.

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