Description
In old Bordeaux households, the cave de table sat on the sideboard like a little fortress. Its cabinet held the decanters of good wine and the spirits saved for special guests, and its key hung on a ribbon around the lady of the house’s neck. When the doctor came for dinner, or the bishop, or a suitor with promising prospects, out came the key with a small flourish. The servants whispered that she could tell the year of any bottle simply by the way the light shone through it.
This miniature cave de table brings that gracious dining room ritual to life. It recreates the traditional French table wine cellar in porcelain, painted with care and full of old-world charm, and its interior is ready to hold small treasures or jewelry. Consider it for a wine collector, a sommelier, a host who keeps an impressive cellar, or a Francophile who appreciates the finer details of French domestic life. Set it among real decanters on a bar cart, on a dining room sideboard, or in a curio cabinet. Guests who know what it is will be delighted; those who do not will ask.
The details
- A cave de table, the traditional French table wine cellar
- Room inside for small treasures or jewelry
- Designed by Rochard of Limoges
- Limoges porcelain with every color laid on by hand in France
A refined gift for the wine lover who already owns every corkscrew imaginable.
