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We buy great wine from farms that we like in Europe and sell it in America. It’s obvious how this thing benefits us: we have the best job in the world.

We’d think about wine constantly even if we weren’t importing it, so it’s best just to give in to the mania. OK maybe touring with a rock band it better, but Luc’s already done that and anyway wine importing includes better snack breaks. So what do we do? Our basic goal is to sell wine that tastes good, made in ways we like by people we like. It’s an odd thing: we peer in as strangers, outsiders grudgingly permitted to belong in the places and lives of farmers that make exceptional wine. We get a little closer than tourists, temporarily inside the glass, nearer unpolished agriculture and the work that surrounds it. It’s a thrill, a burst of learning that keeps us running around talking to any person/household pet/farm animal unlucky enough to cross our path. We look at the farms of our partner estates up close. We care about all their details and how it adds up to a story you need to know about a wine you’d like to drink. Methods vary and that’s probably essential, but a common thread does connect estates that make really good wine. When we are doing our job right we help you look at those details. I dream of the wines that we import, how they will taste in a month and a year and a decade, who I’ll drink them with at 1am while picking at the remainders of an epic meal in a ruined kitchen in need of miraculous transformation before the dawn. I think about their evangelical power: the revelatory wine that will open a person’s eyes to how great and different this food product is. I think a lot about how these wines and the farms that make them are a continuance of something real, ephemeral and fragile. A glass of wine is very powerful. It can bring us to the present. It provides time in the vicinity of an honest, simple thing. Buy wine from Piedmont Wine Imports and you get bottles that are loved. Someone made it with their hands. 1,001 thoughts and actions across an agricultural cycle created substance. We drink wine with our meals every day and need it to be articulate, invigorating, a completion of foods around us. I want to sell wines that people will freak out about, fall in love with, wines that normal sane human beings will purchase by the case load without regret. Wines that are really healthy for the places and people that made them and for the people who drink them. Wines that liberate us, that add light, that soak up the sun and soil and energy of honest human labor in a small piece of a distant place and deliver all that positive stuff to you. Wines that are awesome, that taste like you dare to hope wine will taste when you stand in front of an anonymous shelf and reach for a bottle to take home and drink with the people and food that matter to you.

10/30/2026

Marina from Vallana saw all of NC, and met every registered Nebbiolo drinker from Raleigh to Asheville. Spanna season starts now!

10/17/2026

W**e dinner alert! Pt. 2. Pay attention, Charlotte: Marina from in alto Piemonte is coming to Spaghett on Thursday, 10/29. Tickets are available via Tock. rachelqualliotine from PWI will be there too! We’re pouring an array of new arrivals. You can’t lose. **ery

10/16/2026

W**e Dinner Alert! Vallana and Gocciolina: a perfect pairing. Tuesday 10/27, 6:15pm, Tickets via Resy. Vallana are the iconic family run estate in Alto Piemonte. Marina from Vallana will tell the story of her family’s w**ery (est. 1787!) and share her compelling Nebbiolo based w**es which grow in the shadow of Monte Rosa. Nobody in Durham knows the cuisine of Piemonte better than chef Aaron Benjamin. The food at Gocciolina is always excellent, even more so when focused on this magical northwestern corner of Italy.

10/14/2026

From the Santa Ynez Vineyard in the eastern portion of Happy Canyon AVA, a site with a soil composition of clay and loam, mixed with chert and cobblestones. Our first ever house w**e was aged in neutral barrels for 9 months by the dynamic wife-and-wife w**emaking dream team of Tara Gomez and Mireia Taribo Natural W**es-Sta. Rita Hills . Indigenous to Alto Adige, Lagrein thrives in Santa Barbara County. It’s a great example of the small parcel gems waiting to be discovered in that diverse landscape. This plucky turtle has bright acidity in tension with cool dark cherry fruit notes: inky in color, violet/floral in aroma. 119 cases produced. Check it out soon! **e

10/08/2026

There are compelling stories and talented women behind the pretty labels of our house w**es. Terah W**e Co. House Barbera grows at high elevation (1750’) in the volcanic soil of Shake Ridge ranch, an organic farm run by Ann Kraemer, legendary meticulous grower in Sutter Creek (Amador County.) Hand harvested at daybreak, completely destemmed, fermented with native yeast. Aged for 10 months in neutral barrels. Tart blueberry, black pepper, a mouthwatering stony red to serve cellar temperature with marinara pizza.

10/05/2026

Xarel-lo, Barbera, and Lagrein from sunny California. See your local retailer to pick up a bottle (or three). **e

10/03/2026

We’re here! Stop by for a sip.

09/30/2026

Delicious PWI House W**es from three talented women w**emakers are here! Beautiful label art by emilyewallace and Janice O Small batch w**es made from eclectic grapes (Xarel-lo, Lagrein, and Barbera) that deserve the spotlight. Perfect for our house, and yours! **ery **e **e

09/22/2026

It’s a Bahama party. Beautiful weather, people, and w**e. Kick off autumn with chef Billy Cotter’s perfect seasonal fare. We’ll talk w**e, in the least-tedious possible context.

09/19/2026

Road week, advil weekend. Upside: people are good. Worth remembering this. Lotta characters.

Address

607 Ellis Road
Durham, NC
27703

Website

http://www.piedmontwineimports.com/

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