They look like dollhouses-carefully crafted wooden models made of light sycamore

Introducing the Grand Château Series: nine wine cabinets modeled after the most-celebrated estates in Bordeaux: Château Margaux, Château d'Yquem, Château Petrus, Château Haut-Brion, Château La Mission Haut-Brion, Château Mouton Rothschild, Château Latour, Château Cheval Blanc and Château Lafite Rothschild.

Bespoke furniture designer David Linley, a nephew of Queen Elizabeth II, made all the cabinets for this project, which was initiated by the U.K. wine merchant Antique Wine Company.

Behind the doors of each cabinet are drawers filled with wine from one of these estates: 18 bottles of its best vintages from the past 200 years. And atop each cabinet is an architectural model of the actual country house of the estate in question.

But at ￡149,000 British pounds (US$239,205) apiece-￡199,000 for the Château Petrus and Lafite cabinets, because of the rarity of the vintagesinside-who's buying them?

So far, 14 cabinets have sold to Antique Wine Company clients in Europe, Mexico, the U.S. and Asia. But only one customer has bought an entire set: the Hotel Lisboa in Macau, which says it has one of Asia's largest wine collections, comprising more than 3,000 labels. The hotel bought all nine cabinets, minus the premium wine bottles - and says it plans to keep the cabinets on display in its three-star Michelin restaurant Robuchon à Galera. The hotel company did not disclose the price it paid.

'No longer relegated to dusty cellars, the collections of today's fine-wine enthusiasts are now often cleverly integrated into, and featured within, their homes,' says Antique Wine Company Chief Executive Stephen Williams. Asian collectors, in particular, are eager to show off their wines, he adds (link to the article on Asian wine cellars.