A.I. Selections

In 2006,
two friends left behind their lives in the restaurant industry
and embarked upon a new adventure. The challenge: how to stay
connected to the food and wine culture that had become such an
important part of their lives, how to revel in the diversity of
Italian wine, how to create opportunities to continue to travel
to the most gastronomically intoxicating regions in the world?
David Weitzenhoffer and Laura Süpper began A.I. Selections
(a.k.a. Acid Inc.)
as a brokering agency that quickly morphed into an import and
distributing company.
The guiding principle was and has been to
work with good
people and good wine.
Many of the wineries represented by A.I. Selections
are being brought into the country for the first time.
The bottles of wine never represent simply another product,
but a philosophy, a history and the lives of families tied
to a specific place.
The wines chosen by A.I. Selections are connected by
this common thread: above all they seek balance -
an equilibrium between bright acidity, fruit, tannin...
all driving the senses toward a particular place. These
are wines that are delightful on their own and take on
greater complexity at the table.
In 2007, A.I. Selections represented just three producers,
all from Italy. Today the portfolio represents 40 families
producing wine from Italy, Germany, France and the United States.