Seth Masterson

9.2

Delicious Chocolate over dried fruit notes with nice dry floral notes. A very nice nebbiolo without face ripping tannins- a good sipper but also would pair well with the lighter side of Italian foods. — 4 months ago

David D

9.0

Bone dry! Medium–light. Lots of minerals and wet steel, not surprising for an Alpine wine. Graphite, crunchy red fruit, touch of baking spice, brambles. From a new producer that had worked with Ar.Pe.Pe. From Flatiron Wines. 11/27/22. — 4 years ago

Paco Suro

9.0

Rustic. Light. Yummy. — 4 years ago

Chris Buggy

9.1

Beautiful. Nice bright cherry and dark fruit, balanced tannins. Restrained Nebbiolo, a pleasure to enjoy. — 4 years ago

Max Einhorn

8.9

Bright cherry with usual Italian vigor. — 10 years ago

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Phil Kessling

9.2

These are some of my favorite Mountain Nebbiolo. ArPePe actually ages the Riserva before releasing. — 5 months ago

Aaron Tan

9.2

The 16’ Ultimi Raggi, though impressive, just had to bow out to the Vrana Petra. Both shared vibrant red fruit aromas and dried florals, but the Ultimi Raggi leaned into richer, plummy notes with chocolate, nutty warmth, and a balsamic edge. On the palate, both wines were similarly intense, yet the Vrana Petra’s mineral-driven elegance outpaced the Ultimi Raggi’s richness. Towards the end of the night, the Ultimi Raggi’s austere tannins became very pronounced, rendering it a bit more challenging to drink. Both excellent wines, but in it was the Vrana Petra that took the cake at this stage with its clarity and poise. I can’t say this wasn’t expected though, given the Ultimi Raggi’s late-harvest nature. If anything, it did provide excellent context for the “Barolo of Greece” claims attached to the Vrana Petra. — 2 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.4

Nose is so sexy. Sexy cherries and roses. Pink and red roses hand crushed and jammed in your face. As it opens more dusty roses

Palate is sexy cherries. Pink rose internal aromatics. So juicy. A bit bitter. So good.

— 4 years ago

Eric Gardner

9.3

Grandfather makes awesome wine. I love E. Pepe wine as much as I can love a wine. It is the shizzle, and for the technically inclined, the shizzle is listed somewhere between nutmeg and apricots in your somm tasting notes study guide. Weirdly, I also love Ar.Pe.Pe. wine (which is very different), and Franco Pepe pizza from Pepe in Grani and Frank Pepe pizza from New Haven CT, now that I think of it, I'm a Pepe fanatic. — 9 years ago

Marco De Stefani

9.7

Arpepe fiamme antiche — 13 years ago

Lance E. Farman

9.4

Well, is there an arpepe that isn't 🔥? — 5 months ago

Tom Casagrande

9.2

This is a large-auditorium college intro class in Valtellina Nebbiolo. (In contrast to a graduate seminar led by Professor Marsetti or Professor Ar.Pe.Pe.) Loads of dried cherry fruit and winey old barrel scents on the nose. A bit of faded rose petals and stone. The light color looks fairly advanced. The palate is openly fruited initially, but has a bit of a tannic clench at the end. So the balance to be struck is drinking while the fruit is so nice but waiting to see if the tannins drop and soften. Not a long term project. Enjoy over the next few years would be my take, but I tend to favor things on the younger side. — 7 months ago

Benjamin Hickey

9.3

Light but has depth and persistence — 4 years ago

Evelyn Marin

9.0

Not quite at the Ar.Pe.Pe level but a nice expression of cool climate Nebbiolo that is nice and quaffable. — 10 years ago