About Wine Symphony, Inc.
Wine Symphony, Inc. is a boutique wine importer and distributor founded by Andrew Bell.
Founder and President of Wine Symphony, Andrew Bell is passionate about wine. He is also the co-founder of the American Sommelier Association, a not for profit educational organization and support system of sommeliers around the country.
Bell began his wine career in San Francisco in 1987. He worked for famed hotelier and restaurateur Bill Kimpton and opened Splendido’s in 1989.
In 1992, Bell moved to Paris intent on learning how to make wine at the school of enology in Dijon; however, those plans changed and Bell instead began working in Paris at a small Tex Mex bistro to improve his French.
In September of that year, Bell was invited to work the crush side by side with one of the Jura’s most recognized producers, Frederic Lornet. Following the harvest, he moved back to Paris where he spent two years running a boutique wine shop at Le Marche de Buci on Rue de Seine in Paris’ 6th Arrondisement. From there Bell was invited to join the sommelier team at the famous Michelin three star restaurant Guy Savoy as second sommelier.
After spending nearly two years at Guy Savoy Bell returned to his native New York. In 1996, he started an eponymously named wine consulting business with the goal of starting his own import company. While creating a place for himself in the market, in 1998 Bell joined with several other sommeliers to create the American Sommelier Association. Later that year, Bell launched Wine Symphony, Inc., a boutique importing and distribution company based in Manhattan.
Ten years later, Wine Symphony’s focused portfolio can be seen on wine lists in some of the best restaurants, bars and hotels in the state.
Bell’s dedication to the wine industry can be felt by the success of his distribution company but, moreover, by the many professionals in the industry who attribute their success to the impact Bell had as an educator and mentor.
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