"My encounter with Michele's wines was marked by an admonition: "Open it absolutely two hours earlier and drain some!" - Paolo de Cristofaro dixit. Opened, the Taurasi 2005, graciously donated by Raffaele del Franco, looked like a liquefied rock, a spear, very severe, very quiet; I trust, I wait. On the restaurant table, exactly two hours later, we found an almost cordial wine, embellished by so much undergrowth, sweet, transfigured, inviting; and, amazed at our astonishment, the bottle evaporated, to the tune of an enthralling unabeva, of the noblest lineage, that of great wines without ifs and buts, sweet tannin, again, and an almost visible acidity to dictate the times, perfect, rhythmic, very tasty. You only need a couple of hours of relative patience, then Michele's wines do it all by themselves." - Luca Santini
"Here we are in the slowest cellar of all, the one that comes out last... The right timing of Taurasi, which only a small winemaker can afford the luxury of maintaining regardless of the market." - Luciano Pignataro, Dec 2017
"They are real treasures still waiting to be fully discovered those kept by Michele Perillo in his cellar-garage in Castelfranci. Michele much prefers to banquets and tastings his old, sloping vines at the back of the house, presiding over the clone of Aglianico coda di cavallo, at an altitude of 500 metres on light-coloured clay and sandstone. But the best communication, in the final analysis, remains his peasant Taurasi in the most beautiful sense of the term, matured in only partly new barrique and Slavonian oak, to be forgotten in the cellar without any fear. The long bottle ageing is one of the keys to understanding and appreciating them fully." - Guida Vini d'Italia Gambero Rosso 2014
"We are in the highest part of the Taurasi area, which in these years is 'enjoying' the increase in temperatures with moreceler and easier maturation. The management is still conventional, but in the old way, that is, without the use of chemicals." - Slow Wine Guide 2018
"Michele Perillo is an affable and friendly man, but also a scrupulous and uncompromising winemaker. Part of his Aglianico vineyard surrounds his house/cellar, in contrada Valle in Castelfranci, the rest is located in Montemarano (near Molettieri) and Baiano, where on stony soils there is an old beech tree from the 1930s. Constantly at the top of our classification of the type, his Taurasi has uncommon tannic complexity, which Michele indulges by prolonging the ageing in the bottle by a few years."-Guida Espresso Vini d'Italia 2015