CoolVines Featured in New York Times!

Congratulations to Mark Censits and the CoolVines Team for their mention today in the New York Times! In today’s lead column in the Dining section, Eric Asimov talks about the new generation of wine shops, bringing interesting wines to customers in an unintimidating way. He mentions only three stores outside of New York City, one in Los Angeles, one in San Francisco, and CoolVines in Princeton!

Here’s the excerpt.... “The recent vintage of shops can be found in pockets of wine enthusiasm around the country, including DomaineLA in Los Angeles, Terroir Natural Wine Merchant in San Francisco and CoolVines in Princeton, NJ. But enthusiasm seems to burn hottest in New York City.” The full article can be found at:  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/dining/24pour.html

I've said it once, and I will say again that Mark and his team at CoolVines are awesome! Mark has a great vision, and took a great concept and ran with it: To bring great, small production wines to the customer at affordable prices. One of the real beauties of Mark's vision is that a lot of these wines are drinking well now, but also have the stamina to last many decades in the cellar. Some of our favorite wines that we have picked up from CoolVines include 2006 Sine Qua Non Syrah Raven Series, 2005 Downing Family Cabernet Sauvignon, 2006 Leviathan, 2007 Domaine Yves Cuilleron Condrieu La Petite Cote, 2007 Gérard Bertrand Vin de Pays d'Oc Cigalus Blanc, 2007 Diatom Chardonnay Huber, 2005 Jean-Michel Guillon Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes, and 2006 Iris Hill Pinot Noir, which was our 2009 house red.

That being said, check out both of their locations in Princeton and Westfield! They host tastings at both stores, on both Tuesday’s, as well as Saturday’s from 2PM-5PM! Check it out, and let me know what you think! Cheers! -F. Scott

344 Nassau Street, Princeton - (609) 924-0039
23 Elm Street, Westfield - (908) 232-5050
http://www.coolvines.com/

New York Times - 07 March 2010 - A Vibrant Culture of Food Blogging

Check out the New York Times article with a mention of our blog at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/nyregion/07dinenj.html Welcome to our new readers, and thanks for stopping by! Cheers! -F. Scott and Zelda

New York Times Interview

UPDATE: Just a quick update hear from the original posting on 25 JANUARY 2010: This interview took place, a week or so after this initial post, and she asked us some interesting questions about why we blog, our restaurant experiences, etc. I think that everything went very well, and was very interesting to say the least. Today, I received a phone call letting us know that the article will be published on the March 7th, 2010 issue! Yeah! We are definitely looking forward to this, and hopefully everything said sounds great! Yikes! We're definitely looking forward to this, so thanks a million for all of the e-mails, and for following along with this story! Cheers! ORIGINAL POST: I am very flattered to say, that today I received an e-mail from the New York Times, and it looks as though tomorrow I am going to do an interview with one of the Times writers who is doing an article on their dining page about food bloggers in New Jersey. She would like to talk to me about reviewing restaurants in New Jersey, and I truly think that we will add some great information to this article.

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Let me just say that I am absolutely honored that they are considering us, and we look forward to participating in this article.

Stay tuned as this unique privilege unfolds! Thanks for tuning in, and as always, cheers!