Wine Imports, Grand Cayman
Bringing the World's Great Cellars to Cayman's Tables
Epic Imports sources and distributes wine from family-run estates across Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, for the hotels and restaurants on Grand Cayman who take their tables seriously.
26Estates in Portfolio
7Countries Represented
4Continents Sourced
How Epic Imports Works
From the Estate to the Table
A wine reaches a Cayman table through four deliberate steps, not a catalogue order.
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Direct Sourcing
Relationships built directly with family-run estates across seven countries, no secondary importers standing between the grower and the glass.
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Sommelier Curation
Every wine in the portfolio is personally tasted and selected by a working Sommelier before it's ever listed.
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Trade Partnership
Allocations, tastings, and logistics built for Grand Cayman's hotels and restaurants, handled end to end from a single point of contact.
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Verified Provenance
A traceable chain of custody from vineyard to Cayman cellar, so what's on the label is what's actually in the bottle.
Where We Source
Cellars Around the World, Tables in Cayman
Seven countries, twenty-six estates. Each pin marks a producer region in the portfolio, select one to jump straight to its wines.
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About Epic Imports
A Sommelier's Import House
Epic Imports is a wine distribution company based in Grand Cayman, founded and led by Pawan Negi, Founder and Sommelier. The company serves the island's hospitality sector directly: hotels and restaurants who need more than a catalogue, they need someone who has tasted what's in the bottle.
Every producer in the portfolio is chosen for what's actually in the glass: family-farmed vineyards, honest winemaking, and a story worth telling table-side.
The next chapter is already underway: Gourmet by Epic Imports, a new venture extending that same sourcing philosophy, hand-picked, provenance-first, into Cayman's broader gourmet scene.
Founder & SommelierPawan Negi
HeadquartersGrand Cayman, Cayman Islands
FocusWine Distribution
Next ChapterGourmet by Epic Imports
The Portfolio
Twenty-Six Estates, Seven Countries
Each producer below is a family or grower-led estate Epic Imports represents in Cayman. Click any name for the winery's story and winemaker.
France
7 estates+ Pierre Gimonnet & Fils Cuis, Côte des Blancs · Champagne Grower Champagne, built almost entirely on Chardonnay.
Three generations of the Gimonnet family have farmed the chalk slopes of the Côte des Blancs, where some vines were planted in 1911. The 28-hectare estate is 98% Chardonnay, spread across seven villages including Cuis, Cramant, Chouilly, and Oger, and today Didier and Olivier Gimonnet continue a house style built on old vines, precision, and terroir transparency rather than blending across villages, producing roughly 20,000 cases a year.
+ Henri Bourgeois Chavignol · Sancerre, Loire Valley Ten generations on Chavignol's slopes.
What began as two hectares farmed by Henri Bourgeois in the 1950s grew, through his sons Jean-Marie and Rémi, into one of Sancerre's defining family estates; in the 1960s the brothers began seeking out new terroirs and partnerships beyond Chavignol itself, laying the groundwork for the wider range the family farms today. The tenth generation, brothers Arnaud, Lionel, and Jean-Christophe Bourgeois, now farms Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir across Chavignol's limestone and flint terroirs.
+ Billaud-Simon Chablis · Burgundy Chablis Chardonnay, pure and mineral, since 1815.
Founded in 1815, Billaud-Simon has been part of the Faiveley family since 2014, run independently under winemaker Olivier Bailly; as Erwan Faiveley has put it, "this is certainly not Faiveley, we own it but we want to work separately." The style stays true to Chablis' limestone soils: immediate pressing, cold settling, and cellar aging built for crisp, mineral-driven Chardonnay that balances vivid acidity with real depth.
+ Domaine Faiveley Nuits-Saint-Georges · Côte de Nuits, Burgundy Seven generations at the heart of Burgundy, since 1825.
Founded in Nuits-Saint-Georges in 1825, Faiveley farms 120 hectares across Burgundy's top appellations, now led by siblings Erwan and Eve Faiveley. The family has a history of firsts, including inventing the sorting table now standard in wineries worldwide, and in 1934 Georges Faiveley co-founded Burgundy's Chevaliers du Tastevin brotherhood; today the house favors organic, terroir-first viticulture, aiming to preserve the identity of Burgundy's terroirs rather than impose a house style on top of them.
+ Domaine du Pégau Châteauneuf-du-Pape · Southern Rhône Old-vine Grenache, made the traditional way.
The Féraud family has farmed in Châteauneuf-du-Pape since the mid-1600s. Laurence Féraud, who took over the estate from the 2005 vintage, works old-vine Grenache, some planted in 1902, with whole clusters in cement, natural yeasts only, and roughly two years in old wooden foudres: a resolutely traditional approach to the appellation. The flagship Cuvée Da Capo, made only in strong vintages, is built largely from that 1902 fruit on the plateau of La Crau.
+ Domaine Rostaing Côte-Rôtie · Northern Rhône Traditional Côte-Rôtie, from a family of legends.
René Rostaing, a notary by training, founded the domaine in 1971, acquiring prized parcels on Côte Blonde and La Landonne while vineyard prices were still low, and learned directly from two Côte-Rôtie legends: his uncle Marius Gentaz and father-in-law Albert Dervieux. His son Pierre has run the estate since 2015, keeping the long macerations, high stem retention, and restrained new oak that give Rostaing's Syrah its perfumed, silky signature.
+ Château Giscours Margaux · Bordeaux Third Growth, 1855, on Margaux's gravel outcrops.
Vines have grown at Giscours since 1552; the estate was classified Third Growth in 1855 and revived from near-ruin under Nicolas Tari starting in 1954. Managing director Alexander van Beek has led the property since 1995, raising Cabernet Sauvignon to roughly 65% of plantings and expanding biodynamic farming, in pursuit of Margaux's classic "hand of steel in a velvet glove." Since 2019 the cellar has worked with consultant Thomas Duclos and was among the first in the Médoc to adopt optical sorting alongside a gravity-flow design.
Italy
8 estates+ Loredan Gasparini Venegazzù, Montello · Veneto The estate that brought Bordeaux varieties to the Veneto.
Passed from the Spineda family to the Gasparinis and then the Loredans, descendants of Venetian doges, the estate is best known for Piero Loredan's decision to plant Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, and Malbec alongside native varieties, creating Venegazzù della Casa, a wine said to have won over French President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s. From the 1970s the estate also pioneered Metodo Classico sparkling wine in the region and was an early champion of Prosecco's DOCG status. Giancarlo Palla has led the estate since 1972, now alongside sons Alberto and Lorenzo.
+ Cantina Terlan Terlano · Alto Adige A grower cooperative built on patience.
Founded in 1893 and still owned by roughly 143 grower-families farming 190 hectares, Cantina Terlan built its reputation on white wine: Pinot Bianco, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, and Pinot Grigio, aged patiently in 18,000 cubic meters of cellar space before release. Alongside those whites, the cooperative also bottles Lagrein, Pinot Nero, and Merlot from its warmer sites; head oenologist Rudi Kofler favors long-lived, layered wines over anything made for early drinking.
+ Isole e Olena Chianti Classico · Tuscany Where single-varietal Sangiovese proved itself.
Francesco De Marchi united two hamlets into one estate in 1956; his son Paolo, who took over in 1976, went on to prove Sangiovese didn't need blending partners, releasing Cepparello, a single-varietal Sangiovese, in 1980, now regarded as one of the wines that helped legitimize that approach across Chianti Classico. In 2022 stewardship passed to Christopher Descours and family, with Emanuele Reolon as Estate Director continuing that same philosophy.
+ Valdicava Montalcino · Tuscany A small, artisanal Brunello cellar.
An intimate, family-run estate in Montalcino that released its first vintage in 1987, Valdicava makes traditional, site-driven Brunello di Montalcino under winemaker Vincenzo Abbruzzese, best known for the single-vineyard Madonna del Piano Riserva. It's a house judged less on polish than on how honestly its Sangiovese carries site, altitude, and vintage.
+ Brancaia Castellina & Radda in Chianti, Maremma · Tuscany Italian terroir, Swiss precision.
The Swiss Widmer family found the Brancaia hill in Castellina in Chianti in ruins in the 1980s and rebuilt it into a modern winery, since expanded to estates in Radda in Chianti and the Maremma coast. More than 40 years on, Barbara Widmer leads the family operation, pairing Tuscan tradition with Swiss precision in the cellar; Il Blu, its Sangiovese, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon blend, has become the estate's best-known wine since its debut in the 1990s.
+ Borgogno Barolo · Piedmont One of Barolo's oldest wineries, since 1761.
Bartolomeo Borgogno founded the winery in 1761, and by 1908 its Barolo was served at a banquet honoring Tsar Nicholas II. Owned by the Farinetti family since 2008, Borgogno has leaned further into tradition rather than away from it: returning to concrete fermentation in 2013 and earning organic certification in 2019.
+ Mirafiore Serralunga d'Alba · Barolo, Piedmont A 19th-century Barolo estate, revived after 70 dormant years.
Count Emanuele Alberto Guerrieri founded Mirafiore in 1878 alongside the neighboring Fontanafredda estate, winning awards in Brussels, Chicago, and San Francisco by 1890. The label went dormant after being sold in 1931 and stayed quiet for over seventy years before returning to production in 2008, now certified organic and built on the same Serralunga d'Alba vineyards that made its name.
+ Marchesi Migliorati Val di Sangro · Abruzzo Reviving Abruzzo's forgotten vineyards.
Marchesi Migliorati farms abandoned and neglected vineyard sites around the Val di Sangro on behalf of their owners, restoring them to organic, biodynamic production. The focus stays on Abruzzo's native grapes, Montepulciano, Trebbiano, and Pecorino, made without animal-derived additives, prioritizing small volumes over scale; the project also works toward EQUALITAS sustainability certification, partnering with agronomy consultancy Biovitis on vineyard management.
Spain
4 estates+ Emilio Moro Pesquera de Duero · Ribera del Duero Four generations on Ribera del Duero's Golden Mile.
The Moro family has farmed in Pesquera de Duero since the 1920s, but it was Emilio Moro who founded the winery in 1987 and helped put the appellation on the map when its 1989 Crianza was named Spain's best wine in 1993. Patricia Sánchez Moro, the fourth generation, has led winemaking and operations as general manager since 2022, continuing a range built around the single-vineyard Malleolus family of wines.
+ Quinta Milú La Aguilera · Ribera del Duero A one-man micro-winery, named for his son.
Germán Blanco named the estate for his son Lucas, nicknamed Milú, and works old-vine Tempranillo from the villages around La Aguilera with no new oak at all: concrete, amphorae, and neutral old barrels only. The range splits between blended vinos de pueblo and single-plot vinos de parcela, a deliberately small, traditionalist counterpoint to Ribera's bigger houses.
+ López de Heredia Rioja Alta Rioja's most stubbornly traditional cellar, since 1877.
Founded in 1877, López de Heredia still ages its wines for years in large American oak foudres and releases them only when the family decides they're ready, often a decade or more after harvest, well beyond Rioja's minimum requirements. Its most celebrated wine, Viña Tondonia, comes from a walled vineyard the family has farmed since the 19th century; in 2006 the estate commissioned architect Zaha Hadid to design a striking glass-and-steel pavilion for its tasting room, a deliberate contrast to the otherwise unhurried, traditional cellar.
+ Bernabeleva San MartÃn de Valdeiglesias · Sierra de Gredos High-altitude Garnacha from Madrid's mountains.
Santiago Mota and José del Moral founded Bernabeleva to revive old-vine Garnacha planted on the decomposed granite slopes of the Gredos mountains, 600 to 830 meters up, at a time when Madrid wine meant volume, not terroir. Winemaking stays deliberately restrained: gentle, parcel-by-parcel fermentation in neutral oak, built to let each vineyard speak for itself.
Austria
1 estate+ Bründlmayer Langenlois · Kamptal Organic, biodynamic Grüner Veltliner and Riesling on the Danube.
Willi Bründlmayer farms the Kamptal's stony terraces above the Kamp River, about 70 kilometers northwest of Vienna, where warm days and cool, forest-fed nights suit Grüner Veltliner, Riesling, and Pinot Noir alike. The estate is certified organic and biodynamic, and the range runs from those dry whites and Zweigelt-based reds through to traditional-method Sekt and a small production of sweet wines, all made with the same care.
United States
3 estates+ Failla Wines Sonoma Coast & Napa Valley, California Cool-climate Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Syrah.
Ehren Jordan founded Failla in 1998 after training in France, planting the estate's first Cazadero vineyard blocks that same year. The winery sources from some of California's coolest sites across the Sonoma Coast and Napa Valley, and more recently Oregon, using site and rootstock to draw out distinct expressions of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Syrah rather than one house style.
+ Blackbird Vineyards Oak Knoll District · Napa Valley, California Napa's Bordeaux blends, built on Merlot.
Founded in 2003 in Napa's Oak Knoll District and named for the Occitan root of "Merlot," little blackbird, Blackbird Vineyards has built its reputation on Merlot-led, Cabernet Franc-inflected Bordeaux blends rather than the Cabernet Sauvignon most of Napa is known for, led by its flagship proprietary red, Arise. Julia and John Hinshaw have owned and directed the estate since 2019, continuing its small-lot, hand-blended approach.
+ One Cru Howell Mountain & Carneros, Napa Valley · Willamette Valley, Oregon Cult Cabernet and Pinot Noir, built in French oak.
One Cru is winemaker Chris Radomski's small, highly rated collection of West Coast wines, hand-harvested from pedigree sites spanning Napa's Howell Mountain and Carneros to Oregon's Willamette Valley. Extended aging in French oak is the house signature, built for structure and a true sense of place rather than one uniform style; Decanter has called the range "gorgeously layered and beautifully balanced." The Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon is the flagship bottling, rated 99 points, alongside a 97-point Cabernet Franc, a 96-point Carneros Pinot Noir, and a 95-point Willamette Valley Pinot Noir.
Argentina
2 estates+ Bodega Yacochuya Cafayate · Salta One of the highest vineyards in the wine world.
Arnaldo Etchart and Bordeaux consultant Michel Rolland founded Yacochuya in 1988, planting at roughly 2,035 meters, some 350 meters above the town of Cafayate itself, and became the first winery in Argentina to barrel-ferment its wines. Old-vine Malbec, largely unblended, and a small amount of high-altitude Torrontés remain the estate's defining wines.
+ Piattelli Vineyards Mendoza & Cafayate One family, two of Argentina's extremes.
Jon and Arlene Malinski founded Piattelli Vineyards across two very different Argentine landscapes: the Mendoza valley floor and the high-altitude vines of Cafayate in Salta. Valeria Antolin, a fourth-generation winemaker, leads production in Mendoza while Alejandro Nesman manages the Cafayate site, each drawing on the extremes of altitude and climate that define Argentine Malbec; the Cafayate property also operates as a wine resort, drawing visitors deep into Salta's high-altitude wine country.
New Zealand
1 estate+ Amisfield Winery Central Otago Organic Pinot Noir beneath Mount Pisa.
John Darby, a landscape architect by training, founded Amisfield in 1988 on a 93-hectare site beneath Central Otago's Mount Pisa, when the region's vineyards were still new. The estate is fully certified organic, and chief winemaker Sam Davies farms for a deliberately hands-off style that lets Central Otago's dramatic swings in day and night temperature shape the Pinot Noir rather than the cellar. Beyond the cellar, Amisfield also runs one of the region's best-known restaurants and cellar doors on the estate itself.
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