Discovering Future Wines, on Can Wine Save the Planet?

Discovering the Wines of

Emidio Pepe & Chiara de Iulis Pepe

Day 5 of our 12 Days of Wine Celebration!

These vineyards are farming the soil, creating healthy environments with biodynamic and regenerative methods. This generates biodiversity, sequesters carbon, and, in turn, makes delicious wine.Wines for the Future.

These are wineries and vineyards that are doing the work, in their own way, to be sure we have a long, healthy future on our planet in which to enjoy wine!

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Emidio Pepe & Chiara de Iulis Pepe

Emidio Pepe, the namesake of the winery, was born in 1932. He worked alongside his father and grandfather in the vineyard. While his family vineyard was established in 1889, most of the high-quality fruit of Casa Pepe was sold to a Co-op. It was not until 1964, convinced of the high quality of their fruit, that he bottled his first vintage.

He was also convinced that the wines of Abruzzo would age. Not just the rich red Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, but the Trebbiano white wine. As he got older, his daughters Sofia and Daniela took over working the winery, and now his granddaughter Chiara is making the wine, with her sister Elisa helping.