Our Story
Finding the needle in the haystack.
Since 2014, Bliss Wine has traveled the world asking three simple questions: Is this wine honest? Does it tell the story of a place and the people who call it home? Would anyone else bother to find it?
The answers led Andrey Ivanov and the Bliss team to 20+ countries, to family producers in Georgia, Austria, Sardinia, the Portuguese interior, and beyond. The places the major importers fly past.
“We focus on smaller, family run wineries from the parts of the wine world oft overlooked by the mainstream.”
— Andrey Ivanov, Master Sommelier
In 2022, Andrey bought the business from founders Alleah and Erin, earning his Master Sommelier Diploma at the Court of Master Sommeliers along the way — one of only 278 people in history to do so. He now runs Bliss from the Guerrero Coast of Mexico, still chasing the wines worth finding.
2016
Food & Wine Magazine Top Sommeliers of the Year
2022
World’s Best Designed Wine List, North America
2022
James Beard Wine Service Award Finalist
