Your own backyard has nowhere to put a glass. The deck chairs sit low, the lawn is soft, and the only flat surface is the arm of a chair that somebody is about to knock. So the bottle goes down on the grass and falls over, the glass leans and tips into the lawn, and the cheese plate ends up balanced on a knee. This portable wine table fixes all of it with one piece of timber. The leg pushes straight into the lawn or a garden bed, the top folds open, and you have a solid surface right where you are sitting, with a wine bottle holder through the centre, a wine glass holder on either side, and a flat space for the plate.

Why It Stands Out

• It carries the whole setup at once — a full bottle, two glasses and a dessert plate, all on one 20 × 30 cm top.
• The glasses hang instead of standing — the stems drop into slots and the bowls rest on the timber, so this wine glass holder has nothing balanced on a surface waiting to be knocked.
• The bottle sits through the middle — the wine bottle holder takes the neck and lets the body hang underneath, which puts the heaviest thing lowest and steadies everything above it.
• One leg, no setup — a single timber wine glass stake pushes into lawn, garden soil or sand. No legs to level, no pegs, no tools.
• Folds flat to 2.5 cm — this is a folding wine table, so the top closes into a board thinner than a paperback and lives in the shed or the picnic basket between uses.
• 350 grams — it weighs less than half the bottle it holds, so it never decides whether you take it.
• A wooden wine table, not moulded plastic — it looks like something you chose, which is also what makes it a real gift for wine lovers who already own every gadget.

Where to Put It

• On the back lawn beside the deck chairs — the job it was made for. Outdoor entertaining at home always runs short of somewhere to put a glass down.
• In soft mulch at the edge of a garden bed, next to an outdoor setting that has run out of table.
• On the lawn at a barbecue, when the outdoor table is covered in food and there is nowhere left for the wine.
• Under a tree in the yard on a hot afternoon, where the shade is good and the furniture is not.
• Beside a planter on a grassed courtyard or a lawn edge, so the bottle is near the chairs rather than back in the kitchen.
• On the picnic rug at the park — a picnic wine table does the same job away from home.
• In the sand at the beach, or beside the tent at a campsite, where a camping wine holder beats the lid of the esky.

How It Works

1. The top folds open into two leaves — it travels as a flat board and opens out into the full table.
2. The leg pushes into soft ground — lawn, garden soil, mulch or sand takes the stake and holds the whole thing upright on its own.
3. Keyhole slots hold the glasses by the stem — the stem slides in and the bowl sits on top of the timber, which is what makes this a wine glass holder for grass rather than another thing to balance.
4. The centre hole takes the bottle — a standard 750 ml sits through the table with its weight hanging below, and that low weight is what keeps the surface steady once the glasses go on.

How to Set It Up

1. Pick ground that gives — lawn, garden bed, mulch or sand. The softer it is, the deeper the leg goes and the firmer this wine holder for grass will stand.
2. Open the two leaves out until the top sits flat.
3. Push the leg straight down and rock it in, as deep as the ground allows. Straight down, not on an angle — the table levels itself when the leg is vertical.
4. Put the bottle in first, before anything else. Its weight pulls the top down onto the leg and settles the whole table before a glass goes near it.
5. Then the glasses, then the plate — a standard side plate from your own kitchen fits the flat section.
Tip: on hard summer ground, tip a splash of water on the spot and give it a minute before you push the leg in. Lawn that has baked through February will not take a stake dry, and that is the only thing that ever stops one of these going in cleanly.

Care and Maintenance

• Wipe it down before it goes away. Wine, salt and sunscreen all mark timber if they sit on it overnight.
• Dry it before storing. Damp grass clippings and sand packed together is what warps a thin timber top.
• Brush the soil and sand out of the slots so the stems keep sliding in cleanly.
• Store it flat and closed, not standing on the leg and not wedged under something heavy.

Specifications

What's Included

• 1 × Portable folding wine table with integrated timber leg