After several rounds of games, the luncheon finally began around 2 p.m.
Jerome Bonaparte, Vayan, Nie'er, and Madam Aline entered the dining room one after another, and at the enthusiastic invitation of Minister Vayan, Jerome Bonaparte, being the guest, sat in the main seat, which was originally reserved for the host Minister Vayan.
Afterward, the butler brought in an unopened bottle of wine, and judging by the bottle and mouth, this bottle must have been taken from the cellar of the mansion.
The butler carefully placed the unopened bottle of wine on a small trolley beside it, then used a corkscrew (which was invented as early as 1795) to pull out the slightly dusty wooden cork.
The next step was to decant the aged wine.
A servant carefully carried a decanter made of glass to the butler, who took the decanter from the servant and then carefully tilted the opened bottle of wine along the rim of the decanter into it.
