[net.wines] Why are wine racks made/used backwards?

rcd@opus.UUCP (03/05/84)

Most wine racks seem to be designed so that they hold the bottle with the
neck toward you and the bottle tilted slightly downward.  Why?  At the very
least, this makes it a real challenge to look over the labels on a bunch of
bottles.  That is, why not hold the bottle with the neck away from you and
the bottle tilted slightly upward?  (Most bottles can be tilted up at least
30 deg. and the wine still stays in contact with the cork, but 10 deg.
would help enough.)  Am I missing something obvious?
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