Wait, but it sounds like these are not special custom wine suitcases. Which means you also need enough filler in the suitcases to prevent the bottles from breaking. Which then creates a tradeoff between maximizing the number of bottles and keeping them safe. For those reasons, I’ve never gone as high as 12 bottles, but I guess it also depends on the size of the suitcase and how compact. Either way, sounds like you know what you’re doing!
Of course I do. I always buy a roll of bubble wrap and a roll of duct tape when I go on a trip!
Not a single broken bottle in my life. Yet.
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One medium suitcase, 12 bottles, a bit short of 23kg, that’s the maximum I ever went. The biggest issue about trying to go beyond 12 bottles in a single suitcase is that you could end up paying a kidney in overweight.
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That’s impressive. I think the most I’ve done in a single bag was 8 and that felt like a lot, but I did also have clothes in it. My strategy is to use the clothes themselves to wrap the bottles and provide a lot of padding between each bottle using the clothes. Then I put shoes, sandals, socks, and toiletries around the edges to pad from side impact. I’ve also never once had a broken bottle (knock on wood).
I’ve tried this last year and it works pretty well:
That’s usually what I would do; unless I have a suitcase that can be entirely dedicated to wine.
Assuming that the second suitcase is your SO’s, that’s the part that I find impressive, I mean, Olimpic gold medal contender kind of impressive 
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