Will Oil Eventually Leach Out Of Sealed Leather?

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I've been asked to help make a custom wine rack. The rack will have individual leather cradles to hold individual bottles of wine. The customer has a specific color in mind. Right now I'm leaning towards just buying a whole hide, dying the entire hide, oiling it, and sealing it - all before I cut the pieces and sew them to the structure.

That, or I was going to order English Bridle leather from Wickett & Craig, but their description said it was stuffed with waxes and oils.

When I was at my local Tandy, I was eyeing an oil-tanned hide and told the owner what I was planning, and asked if the oil-tanned leather would be bad for the wine bottle labels. The owner said oil would eventually leach out of the leather, even if it was sealed. Is this true?? He said it would even leach out of vegetable tanned leather if it's been oiled - even if it was sealed with something like Resolene.

Now I'm leaning towards buying a bottle of Tandy's Pro Waterstain in the "Tan" color, because I think that's about the correct shade even without oiling (well, at least from looking at the sample swatch - they didn't have a small bottle in stock for me to buy and try). It'll be easy to apply to an entire side of leather, as opposed to airbrushing 4 coats to a side...

This could turn into a huge project for me with the potential for more work down the road from this client, so I really want to get this right and make sure I don't ruin a bunch of high dollar wine bottles!

[dirtclod]

If you put the oil on and don't over do it i don't see any problems at all. Now if really soak the hide that's another story because it will bleed onto / into something else. There is a picture on here of a rifle scabbord on that, that has happened to. The body was light oiled and the straps were soaked and it bleed / soaked into the light oil making dark spots.

The oil tanned chap leather is fine for chaps and other things but you will have a hard time getting glue to stick to it. Or i always did when making chaps.