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New wine bar on Far Hills to open this month
The new Rumble Seat Wine bar and retail shop that we told you about back in May is scheduled to open later this month at 5853 Far Hills Ave. next to Caribou Coffee in Washington Twp.
And it has hired a familiar face as manager: Chris Holloway, who worked for several years at Arrow Wine & Spirits’ Centerville store and more recently for the Cork & Vine wine bar and retail shop off of Miller Lane.
Chris Holloway in the new Rumble Seat Wine
Holloway spend part of this morning taking a wine shipment and is in the process of installing cable TV and phone lines.
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in wine retail, you’ve got to have the Buckeye games on TV on Saturday afternoon,” Holloway said.
The new shop is scheduled to open in late July, and will have a “soft” opening for a short period before scheduling grand-opening events around the first of August, Holloway said.
It’s a spacious facility, with one side devoted to case stacks of wine that will give it a “retail warehouse” feel, and another side reserved for the wine bar, with a tasting bar and a handful of high-top tables, and wine racks for more eclectic wines, Holloway said. There will be a wine room devoted to premium wines, and another devoted to wines that cost $10 or less.
Holloway, who has taught wine classes for the city of Kettering, wants Rumble Seat to host wine classes as well. And the wine bar itself will have wines available to taste all day, every day, whenever the shop is open. Hours will be 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
“I understand there are a lot of different wine shops around here, so I’ve got to find my niche,” Holloway said.
Rumble Seat Wines has the license to serve spirits and mixed drinks as well as beer and wine, and it plans to offer beer samples alongside the wine samples, the new manager said.
The new wine bar and retail shop is owned by Thomas E. Smith of Washington Twp.
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By Bar or tasting place
July 1, 2009 8:17 PM | Link to this
A bar is open later than 8pm - at least make it 10 or 11pm. More like a place to taste wine. Why bother with liquor if you close at 8? Retail may be their thing, but a bar is needs to be open till at least 10, more like 11 (for this type of bar.) Hope they don’t fail bc of their hours of operationBy cate
July 1, 2009 4:31 PM | Link to this
I am very excited about this new place opening up. While I imagine that there are other places south of town, I have been having to drive from Kettering to Miller Lane to find a nice place to relax and drink a glass of wine (or 2). Hopefully it won’t become a pretenious Centerville wine bar