Emidio Pepe is in Abruzzo. The 37-acre estate has its roots in the 19th century when Emidio Pepe and his wife Rosa started growing grapes in the hills of Torano Nuovo. By the 1940s their son was making wine and today the estate is run by the grand daughters and a great-grand daughter of the founders. Emidio Pepe produces Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, Trebbiano d’Abruzzo, Pecorino and Rosato wines. Robert M. Parker Jr. has written the estate “treats fruit and the resulting wines with the utmost care…tasting a well-preserved bottle of Emidio Pepe’s Montepulciano is a real treat as the wines can be superb.”