2005 Emidio Pepe Montepulciano d'Abruzzo

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  2/2/2024 - oldwines Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Decanted at 5pm and after an hour ran it through a venturi 3 times before returning to the bottle and taking to a local restaurant. The wine looks very youthful with no sign of bricking, bright dark garnet. Nose is slightly smokey with hints of minerals and plenty of dark red fruit. Palate is rich but balanced with good acidity, just a touch of unintegrated tannin and beautiful texture. Fruit is right there, black cherry, pomegranate, some black fruit as well with an undertone of chalky minerals and some sweet pipe tobacco, leather and cedar on the finish. Elegant but also showing controlled power and depth. Really enjoyable with upside in the future!

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  5/7/2023 - levicn Likes this wine: 93 Points

  淡宝石色，闻香有明显的皮毛和马厩味，泥土，树莓和蓝莓一类果香，带着微氧化的特征，木质香气和轻微甜香料味，入口酸度高，单宁紧涩，细砂纸颗粒，红黑果香混合着糯米，大枣和一些泥土气息，后段带着植物的清凉，酒体中等，触感柔和，有一种流动的空间感，余味马厩味，覆盆子和木质香气。长时间陈年让口感变得平衡，酒在口中状态很舒展，从单宁的强度来看还远没有到试饮巅峰期，陈年潜力惊人。纯净的果实质感，没有大气磅礴，没有过多修饰，朴实自然中透着一种深邃，余韵优雅而又绵长。低干预，自然派葡萄酒的标杆之作。

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  3/13/2023 - forceberry wrote: 94 Points

  100% Montepulciano from organically farmed vineyards, all fruit fully destemmed. Fermented spontaneously and aged for two years in concrete tanks. Bottled unfined and unfiltered. 13% alcohol. Bottle no. 32408.
  
  Strikingly dense, dark and opaque blackish-red color with a youthful blueish hue. The nose feels a bit restrained but also very fine-tuned and attractive with fragrant aromas of chokeberry jam and wizened black cherries, some leathery funk, a little bit of tobacco, light smoky nuances of phenolic spice, sweet hints of ripe figs and juicy blackcurrants, a touch of bilberry and a whiff of pencil shavings. The wine feels ripe, juicy and rather dry on the palate with a quite full body and somewhat restrained yet wonderfully fine-tuned flavors of black cherries and blueberries, some tart notes of fresh plums, a little bit of tobacco, light earthy notes, a hint of leathery funk and a bittersweet touch of chokeberry jam. The overall texture is pretty open-knit yet still showing great sense of firmness and structure with its rather high acidity and moderately grippy tannins. The finish is rich, juicy and quite grippy with a long, layered aftertaste of blueberries and ripe dark plums, some chokeberry jam tones, a little bit of tobacco, light earthy notes, a hint of ripe figs and a touch of leathery funk.
  
  A very attractive, youthful and quite impressive vintage of Pepe's Montepulciano. The overall feel is maybe a bit closed compared to the other vintages of Pepe's Montepulciano we tasted at the same time, but it's certainly possible the wine just needs more age - at least it seemed to very slowly open up during the evening, which would suggest the wine might turn out to be more expressive with some additional cellaring. There's a tiny bit of bretty funk here, but the overall feel is still more vibrant and fruit-driven rather than rustic and barnyardy. However, what is the most remarkable here is the sheer intensity and sense of structure here - very rarely producers manage to coax out this much depth and structure out of Montepulciano, and when some producers do, the wines tend to be clumsy and over-extracted. There is nothing clumsy or over-extracted here - this is simply on point. A beautiful wine that will continue to evolve and improve over many, many more years. Highly recommended. If opened now, let the wine aerate for a few hours, just to let it open up a bit.

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  3/25/2022 - Bob H wrote:

  I liked this a lot seven months ago, and this is still drinking great today - I didn’t mention this in the previous note, but if you have this in the cellar and haven’t tried it in a while, check a bottle out, because this is really on its game. Complex nose and ample, lively acidity, with great persistence on the finish. Lovely!

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  8/22/2021 - Bob H wrote:

  There is so much going on with the nose here that mere words won’t do it justice. A rustic, almost sauvage note on the nose, with red and black fruit.
  
  Expansive on the palate, with ripe fruit and adequate acidity. Give me a hunk of parmigiana reggiano cheese, and I’d be drinking the whole bottle in 20 minutes max. 🍷👍

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