KEY FEATURES OF THE SAKONNET RIVER COMPANY WINE TRAYS

FREE UP A HAND

The Sakonnet River Company Wine Tray is practical.  It is a single-handed Tray that holds both drinks and appetizers at the same time.  The sole purpose of this is to let you free up a hand while you are eating and drinking.  It makes eating and drinking easier - and more graceful. 

BE KIND TO YOUR  GUESTS 

Wine Trays are essential for events where everyone's networking and moving around; meet and greet affairs, parties on boats, gallery openings, symphony, opera and theatre intermissions, the bleachers at ball games. They are also useful for large social events like engagement parties, weddings, graduations, conferences and office parties.  

BE KIND TO YOURSELF

Because they are light as well as elegant they can be essential accessories for a range of activities like hiking, biking, picnics, taking dinner from the kitchen to the living room, breakfast in bed, skiing and floating in the pool.  The Sakonnet River Company Wine Trays can facilitate gatherings of friends and family at any time of the year, whether indoors, outdoors, in the mountains or on the water.    

GIVE THE BEST GIFTS, 

Because of the high quality of the wood and the craftsmanship, our Wine Trays are often used as gifts.  Our petite POCKET Wine Trays were specifically designed as party favors for weddings.  Our CLUB Wine Trays were designed, in part, to provide individually packaged meals for special events during COVID.  Our customers have found that the Trays are particularly useful as gifts for the person "who has everything."  Many customers make good use of the Wine Tray's distinctive look and utility by getting their custom design laser etched on the Trays before shipping them to the recipients.   

PRESENT THE BEST TROPHIES AND AWARDS

Our Wine Trays presently serve as trophies and awards at sailing regattas.  They also function as auction items at fund-raisers.  We can laser etch custom designs for these events and occasions as well.  We also provide Trays to clients who wish to personally customize them. 

EXCEPTIONAL LIGHTNESS

Because we have minimized the weight while maximizing the strength of our Wine Tray, you can carry it for an extended period of time.  Many competing wine trays weigh more than 7 ounces. Our POCKET Wine Trays weigh 2.1 to 3.1 ounces.  Our wooden  CLUB Wine Trays range from 4 ounces to 5.9 ounces. Our carbon fiber Club Wine Tray is 2.3 ounces. The super-light CLUB Trays are ideal for those long-haul cocktail parties where your job is to network.  

ERGONOMIC EFFICIENCY

Most wine trays require you to grip the side of the tray with your thumb. The result is that the thumb joint gets numb in 20 or 30 minutes.  They also place the glass across the tray from the thumb that is holding the tray.  This reduces the amount of time you can hold the tray even further - and affords you less control over the glass and its contents.  Our design is copied from the traditional artists palette.  The artist's palette puts the weight of the tray on the part of your palm that is closest to your wrist, which bears weight much more efficiently than the fingers or thumb.  In addition, we place the glass as close to the wrist as possible to maximize support and control of the beverage.  This also provides the most space for the hors d'oeuvres, which tend to be the lower on the Tray, lighter and less long-lasting items, and therefore not as much of a burden at a distance from the wrist.   Between the lightness and the ergonomics you can carry your Wine Tray for an hour or two with minimal effort. 

CLASSIC AESTHETIC

In addition to being practical, the Sakonnet River Company Wine Tray is elegant. A key design objective was to make the Tray suitable for formal social events.  We selected the classic Palladian oval to maximize physical space while minimizing visual space.  For our CLUB Trays we made it large enough to hold sufficient refreshments for an extended tour - without becoming a focus of the conversation, or impinging on the profile or the presence of the person holding it.   For our POCKET Trays we used the Palladian oval to make the Tray virtually invisible, while still holding a glass and the two or three delicacies needed to tide one over until the sit-down dinner.  We also made sure it would fit into the standard blazer pocket or a fashionably modest-sized purse.

PATENT PENDING

The lightness, the ergonomic efficiency and aesthetics of the oval make our Wine Tray a perfect asset for strategic networking or just moving around and seeing the sites at cocktail parties, engagement parties, gallery openings and other social events.  In pursuing practicality and elegance, we came up - by accident - with a design that resembles an Angelfish.  We figured that this was appropriate, since the Trays are as much needed at in the maritime realm as anywhere else.  We applied for a design patent in July of 2022 and have been informed by the US Patent Office that our patent is now pending. 

MADE IN THE USA

Our Wine Trays are 100% hand-crafted in the State of Rhode Island (USA).  They are made by master craftsmen with a over 20 years of professional experience in their materials. 

COMPOSITION   

Our Club Wine Trays are cut from single pieces of 100% solid Cherry, Mahogany, Maple, Tiger Maple, and Black Walnut.  We also craft trays from solid Burmese Teak, as available.   Our Carbon Fiber is 100% yacht grade, upcycled from a major yacht builder. 

DIMENSIONS 

The wooden Club Wine Trays are all of the same dimensions. They are 10.375" long (26.36 cm) by 7.50" wide (19.05 cm) and 0.25" thick (0.64 cm). The glass holder is 2.4375" in diameter (6.19 cm)., which enables it to hold many tea-cups, coffee cups and beer cups of up to 20 ounces. The Club Wine Trays weigh between 4.0 and 6.0 ounces each, depending on the type of wood. 

Our Carbon Fiber Wine Tray comes only in the Club size. It has the same dimensions as the wooden Club Trays. However, it is only 1.5 millimeters thick and weighs 2.3 ounces.    

SURFACE 

The wooden CLUB Trays are finished using the General Finishes Wood Bowl Finish, which has been used on wooden bowls and kitchen utensils for decades.  It is food safe.  We sand and apply the finish 3 times, and let the Trays cure for a week before making them available for shipment. 

For our Carbon Fiber trays, we also use the Wood Bowl Finish, though the sanding process is necessarily more complex and rigorous. 

STACKING 

The GALA Trays nest tightly and are stackable.  

WASHING AND MAINTENANCE 

The wooden TRAYS  require only soap and water for cleansing and maintenance. They should not be machine-washed.  We continue to get positive results for machine washing of the Carbon Fiber Wine Trays, but cannot warrant them over the long term.  We recommend that they also be hand-washed with soap and water. 

COMPOSITION  

Our Wine Trays are cut from single pieces of 100% solid Cherry, Mahogany, Maple, and Black Walnut. We shall be starting Tiger Maple during 2022.

DIMENSIONS

The POCKET Wine Trays are all of the same dimensions. They are 7.75" long (19.68 cm) by 5.06" wide (12.85 cm) and 0.25" thick (0.635 cm). The glass holder is 1.5"" in diameter (3.81 cm).  They weigh between 2.1 and 3.1 ounces each, depending on the type of wood.   

SURFACE 

The POCKET Trays are finished using the General Finishes Wood Bowl Finish, which has been used on wooden bowls and kitchen utensils for decades.  It is food safe.  We sand and apply the finish 3 times, and let the Trays cure for a week before making them available for shipment.

STACKING 

The POCKET Trays nest tightly and are stackable. 

WASHING AND MAINTENANCE

The TRAYS  require only soap and water for cleansing and maintenance. They should not be machine-washed.