When we visited wineries in the California wine country, a name was given to the clear layer that floats on the top of a glass of wine has a name. What is the name of this layer and what is it? We've got bets on it. Thanks. Pls. do a post. GW
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Aug 26, 2005
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If you are talking about the edge of the wine as it touches the glass, that's known as the meniscus [1], a term that applies to the edge of any liquid, not just wine and which shares its name with the disc of cartiliage that separates the bones of the knee.
HTH Mark Lipton
[1] For you linguistic pedants out there, it's derived from the Greek name for the crescent moon and is applied to a variety of objects shaped like the cresecent moon.
Us linguistic pedants out here already knew this:-) Graham
It's called air. ;-)
I think you might be referring to the surface tension of the liquid.
Backwash aka Spit?
Alan
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