MEET MARNIE OLD

MEET MARNIE OLD
Marnie is one of the country's highest profile sommeliers and wine educators, and a breath
of fresh air in the stuffy wine world. She is recognized for her common-sense approach to
complex wine topics, her energetic performance style and her incisive and intuitive
explanations. Marnie's first book, titled He Said Beer, She Said Wine, is a collaboration
with acclaimed brew-master Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery. A goodnatured debate on the topic of food pairing, it will be published in April 2008 by DK
Publishing. Her second book, a collection of down-to-earth wine advice from leading
experts and winemakers, will be available for the 2008 holiday season.
Teaching is Marnie's passion. She is the Director of Wine Studies for Manhattan's
renowned French Culinary Institute, under the department's Dean Andrea Robinson,
television celebrity and Master Sommelier. Marnie has taught award-winning classes since
1997, and was the founding education chair for the American Sommelier Association. In
partnership with the University of Delaware, she designed a ground-breaking wine course
for long-distance learning, called Wine Online with Marnie Old. Marnie also teaches about
beer, spirits, restaurant management and service.
Marnie is the beverage columnist for Philadelphia
Magazine, a beer columnist for luxe lifestyle website
Gayot.com and a contributing editor for Santé
magazine. Features on Marnie have run in the
Philadelphia Inquirer, the New Jersey Courier-Post
and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Her events
have been highlighted in USA Today and the Wall
Street Journal. She is recognized internationally
as an expert wine commentator, most recently by
Salon.com, the New York Times, Time Out
New York and the UK's Fine Wine Press.
OLD WINES LLC 710 CHESTNUT ST. PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 www.marnieold.com 215-351-9985
Marnie launched her independent consulting venture,
Old Wines LLC, in 2001, serving restaurants,
consumers and corporate clients. She has advised
world class organizations, like ResidenSea's opulent
ship The World, as well as independent start-ups
and non-profits. In New York, she has consulted
on wine lists at Morimoto, the legendary Iron
Chef's luxurious newest restaurant, and its
sister property Buddakan. She has designed
ten of Philadelphia's most dynamic wine
programs, from the refined Striped Bass, reinvented by Starr Restaurant Organization and
famed Chef Alfred Portale, to top designer
Owen Kamihira's smash hit Spanish tapas
lounge Bar Ferdinand.
Marnie is familiar face in the Philadelphia area, thanks to frequent appearances on morning
shows, like FOX 29's Good Day Philadelphia, KYW-3's Morning News and CN8's Your
Morning. She has been a regular guest expert on The Fretz Kitchen, the popular cooking
show featured on Comcast's CN8 network. Marnie's popular website marnieold.com is a
vibrant learning resource for those interested in wine, with over 2000 consumers in her
database.
Marnie spent five years as Sommelier of Philadelphia's leading
seafood restaurant, Striped Bass and as Executive Beverage
Director for its premier restaurant group, Meal Ticket Inc.
Among the many distinctions earned by her creative lists,
Food & Wine Magazine has twice honored her wine
programs as ranking the country's "Ten Best New Wine
Lists", first for an all-Italian wine list at Avenue B in 2001
and again in 2005 for a seafood oriented wine list at the
newly revitalized Striped Bass. Marnie has earned expertlevel credentials from internationally-recognized
organizations; she has passed the rigorous Level III
Advanced Sommelier exams given by the Court of
Master Sommeliers and holds the respected Advanced
Certificate from the London-based Wine & Spirits
Education Trust.
OLD WINES LLC 710 CHESTNUT ST. PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 www.marnieold.com 215-351-9985