Imbibe Magazine – July/August 08

Eight Great Wine Shops Coast to Coast

CoolVines sits about 150 from the Westfield, NJ Train Station, but if that seems like too far to drag your feet after the schlep from Penn Station for a bottle of vino, don’t sweat it. You can email them your wine selections, as well as which train you’re going to be on, and someone from the shop will be waiting to greet you at the station with your wines in hand...

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CommercialVigilantInc.Com - Spring 2008

Another Successful Project

From first contact to the completion of our new store, Vigilant has been a great business partner. Working together we developed a beautiful and functional racking system and we look forward to working with them on our next store.

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Princeton Packet Article - June 20th, 2008

CoolVines sniffs a market for more wine in Princeton

Is there room for another wine merchant in Princeton?

Mark Censits thinks so.

In July, he intends to open CoolVines, a wine purveyor which will aim to educate and inspire sometime wine drinkers and bring them into the wine appreciation fold.

"We are actually trying to grow the wine market, not steal market share from existing merchants,” said Mr. Censits, 46, CoolVines’ president and CEO ...

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Market Watch - April 2008

Hot Brands – Absinthe’s Revival

With such a fickle spirits consumer base, the inevitable question is whether absinthe will wither away or thrive in its niche appeal. Mark Censits of New Jersey retailer CoolVines says the most interest in the category comes from younger customers – typically in their mid-20s. “there’s a lot of mystique surrounding absinthe, but not a lot of knowledge or first-hand experience,” says Censits. “Its legend as a psychedelic drug persists despite published information to the contrary.”

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