Countertop Wine Racks

Six bottles in a narrow wood and metal frame, 14 inches tall and under 8 inches wide, delivered ready to use with nothing to assemble. It is the most compact rack on this page and the best looking, which is why it carries over 3,000 reviews at 4.8 stars. Reviewers agree it takes six standard bottles and is too narrow for bigger ones.

Not for: Sparkling wine drinkers. Reviewers report that Prosecco and Champagne bottles do not fit.

Six bottles and two hanging glasses in white wood and gold metal, with two small trays for corks and an opener, about 14 inches square and 6 deep. It is a serving station rather than storage: everything for a glass of wine in one place on the counter. Bottles lie flat, so the corks stay wet for as long as they are there.

Not for: Champagne. A reviewer notes the thicker bottles do not all fit, and a counter is the wrong place to keep sparkling wine for long anyway.

Seven bottles lying flat in a round wire frame about a foot wide and just over 6 inches deep, with nearly 6,000 reviews behind it. The maker is unusually clear about its limit: bottles must be under 3.46 inches across. That takes Bordeaux and most still wine and rules out Champagne, as a reviewer confirms. It sits as happily on a shelf as on a counter.

Not for: Anyone who buys sparkling wine. Champagne bottles are wider than the 3.46-inch limit.

Twelve bottles in a bamboo frame about 16 inches tall, 12 wide and under 6 deep. Reviewers fit it on a shelf inside low kitchen cabinets, which is where it does its best work: dark and out of the way. It is the cheapest rack here and looks it, and reviews are split on how solid it feels once it is full. For a dozen bottles you will drink over the next few months, that is a fair trade.

Not for: A rack on show, or one that gets knocked. Some reviewers find it loose when loaded, and the listing gives no slot width, so do not count on wide bottles.

Fourteen bottles in a geometric black iron frame about 17 inches wide, 12 tall and 5.5 deep. What sets it apart is the top row: eleven slots are for standard bottles and three are wider, and reviewers confirm those take Champagne. It arrives ready to use and is shallow enough to slide into a cabinet as an insert. For a mixed collection on a counter, this is the one to buy.

Not for: Keeping more than three sparkling bottles at once. Only the top three slots are wide.