24 Apr Emidio Pepe in Paris
Serendipity colludes with great good fortune
Just minutes after making reservations to dine with my daughter (back in Paris briefly between travels in the US, Canada, and Mexico) on Saturday evening, I received a call from a very generous friend asking if I would be able to take the two seats he had reserved for a fully paid pop-up dinner featuring wines from Emidio Pepe, with dishes prepared by their own chef, Pietro La Rosa. I accepted immediately, without actually having put two and two together to realise how entirely extraordinary the invitation was. Once I had come to my senses, I realised this was going to be an exceptional evening.
The pop-up was organised to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the domain; sixty years of great wines and a philosophy that, at its core, has not changed since Emidio Pepe planted his vineyard in 1964. He was an original thinker who “strongly believed in the great ageing potential of Trebbiano and Montepulciano d’Abruzzo and he dedicated all his energies to those two indigenous grape varietals, proving their incredible potential and showing it to the entire world”.
