Olivier Magny is
"the Jamie Oliver of wine"
- All the Best

"Tastmaster Olivier Magny"
- The Wall Street Journal

"Hilariously perceptive!"
- New York Magazine

Olivier Magny is a native Parisian and a French sommelier. After graduating from a French Grande École (i.e., French ‘Ivy League’ equivalent), he decided to turn away from the desk job his family expected him to maintain, and to change his life by choosing to work in wine. At the age of 23 he founded Ô Chateau and became a laureate of the Paris Entreprendre network of up-and-coming entrepreneurs. Today, Ô Chateau is the number one Wine Tasting School in Paris and ranks in Trip Advisor’s Top 10 Most Popular Paris Attractions.

Olivier Magny still lives in Paris and has personally taught the magic of French wines to more than 40,000 people from around the globe. He is also a visiting sommelier at the renowned Hôtel de Crillon in Paris, and a consultant for Les Caves Legrand. In February 2011, Olivier expanded the Ô Chateau trademark with the opening of a wine bar in Paris supported by an apt team of sommeliers, a Top Chef semifinalist in the kitchen and a truly incredible ‘by the glass’ selection, serving wines as renown and rare as Pétrus every day.

Olivier’s video blog www.winerendezvous.com was an American Wine Blog Award Finalist in 2008 and his award-winning satiric blog “Stuff Parisians Like” gathers thousands of readers, making Olivier one of France's most influential bloggers. The success of the blog has led Olivier to write a parallel book under the same title: Stuff Parisians Like. It will be released in early June 2011 in the US, under the Penguin Group. The French version of “Stuff Parisians Like” entitled Dessine-moi un Parisien was published in 2010 by 10/18 éditions, selling over 15,000 copies within the first month with a second edition already underway.

Today, Olivier spends his time conducting tastings, running the bar, training sommeliers, selecting wines, writing his next book (which will be about wine…), and working with producers to develop his wine television program. He is also hired for private tastings, corporate events, speaking engagements, and as a consultant for wine cellar or wine list development and management.

The press has been quick to take notice of such a fresh figure in the world of wine; he has been mentioned in countless newspapers, magazines, blogs and on television programs in various languages and in a number of countries around the globe. (*Olivier is fluent in French, English, Italian and Spanish.) Such publications and press appearances range from Elle magazine to Marie Claire, from major Italian talk shows to British News Programs to South American ESPN, from the Wall Street Journal and the NY Times to TIME Magazine and any major tour guide of Paris.