Aging on a wine rack waste of time or good idea

Steve-Broady

I was reading a thread where someone used glass cylinders and oak end caps to make a small aging barrel, and solved the problem of wood swelling and breaking the glass by setting the glass into a circular grove in the wood. That got me thinking, which is always dangerous!
I have a large wine rack which I built into our pantry, but I rarely have it even close to half full. Meaning I have a lot of spare space. What if I could find a glass vase or something similar, about the size of a wine bottle, put an oak cap on it, and make a small aging “barrel” that fit in the wine rack?
A quick look on Amazon found this:

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I calculate a volume right around 1 liter, and a wooden surface area just a hair over 38 cm^2. That’s significantly less wood than in a barrel, which makes me think it would age more slowly, but also have little or no risk of over aging.
If I do this, and that’s a big if, the plan would be to buy some wide barre staves and mill a circular groove into the charred face. Drill and team a bung hole for a cork. Pre-soak the wood, then set the glass into the groove with the rim potted in molten beeswax. Then fill with whatever I want to age, put it up at the top of the wine rack and forget about it for a year or two.
I welcome any comments, as many people here have tried some creative aging solutions. Is this an insane idea? A pointless exercise? Or a good use of space?

Knife_man

Doesn't have to be glass

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Search for badmotivator I recently made a few 2ltr "barrels" which are just a bit too big for a wine rack but I'm sure some searching will bring up a suitable stainless receptacle , a spaghetti tin perhaps ?
Using stainless you don't have to worry about the glass breaking.

Knife_man

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stainless-St ... 635-2958-0
Looks like a contender, I'm not at home so can't measure but that was literally a 30sec search so I'm sure you can fine something.

Steve-Broady

I’m familiar with the BadMo barrels .. got 8 of them, and I want more! That’s part of what inspired me. And I like the stainless idea as well. Glass just sounded nice for both appearance and the ability to monitor what’s going on inside.
Thinking more about this idea, I don’t think that wax alone would be reliable to bind wood and glass over time. Which led to the idea of a metal cage which could securely hold container and cap together.
I also thought about milling a pattern of grooves into the oak to increase the surface area.
To be clear, this is just an idea that popped into my head this morning, not a fully fledged and well considered plan. I figured folks here might have some good feedback before I did something stupid.