Rack that only holds neck - to much stress on bottle?

[hippocratical]

I'm building a rack for aging my wine. As I use a variety of bottle styles I think using a simple "hole design" as all bottles will be horizontal no matter their dimensions. This also allows more airflow around the bottles.

This is easy to make too - just a long piece of 1x4 with holes drilled at appropriate intervals and angled correctly to make the bottles horizontal.

Does anyone think that this might over-stress the bottle when aged for months/years? Realistically glass is very strong even when full, but before I go down this road I just want to check.

 

[gaboy]

By far the most stress on the bottles is during corking, any bottle problems will show up there!!

 

[vacuumpumpman]

I would make sure not to lean on the bottles - LOL

 

[JohnT]

Bottles are a lot stronger than most people think..

I say "go for it" and please post picture when you are done.