About this product
One of Italy's great natural wine legends — produced without pumps, chemicals, or filtration from old-vine Montepulciano on the clay-limestone Torano Nuovo hillsides. The wine ages in glass-lined concrete vats for years before hand-disgorging and re-bottling. Young vintages show dense dark cherry, violet, and iron mineral; older vintages develop extraordinary tertiary complexity of leather, tobacco, dried rose, and forest floor that can last 30–40 years.
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Pepe's Montepulciano — made as it has been for fifty years — with the mountain lamb and sheep's milk cheese of the same Apennine landscape: a wine of place paired with food of place
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The ancient Abruzzo Easter lamb preparation — enriched with egg yolk and aged pecorino — finds its vinous counterpart in the region's defining red: tannin cuts through richness; dark fruit mirrors the lamb's sweetness
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Abruzzo's signature pasta cut with its characteristic lamb ragù and the region's rarest cheese — a complete regional identity on plate and in glass
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