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A video shows wine travelling up the glass as well as down to make ‘legs’ in slow motion.
The drops that form around the side of a wine glass are strange, but most people don’t realize just how strange.
Here the effect is explained, along with time-lapse footage of these « legs of wine » to show the effect for what it truly is.
See video by Dan Quinn
By CHRIS MERCER — DECANTER Newsletter — Thursday 21 November 2013
The Napa wines that famously beat France’s best in the 1976 Judgement of Paris tasting have been chosen from among millions of artefacts as one of the 101 items that ‘made America’.
Smithsonian magazine, representing the 167-year-old, US-based Smithsonian Institution, one of the largest museum and research complexes in the world, picked out the handful of 1973 vintage Napa wines from 137m possible events and symbols. They now sit alongside Abraham Lincoln’s top hat, Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit, and the American flag — the star spangled banner — in terms of their contribution to US history.
DANIEL J. BERGER
Marie-Thérèse Chappaz, la plus célèbre des vigneron(ne)s 
suisses était à Paris la semaine dernière, invitée au festival… Les Inrocks !
L’organisateur du festival, Dominique Revert, est un grand amateur de vin. Il a eu l’idée d’inviter des vignerons à présenter leurs bouteilles en backstage pendant les concerts à La Cigale. Les rockers œnophiles ont pu faire connaissance d’un vin, d’une appellation, d’un vigneron — souvent français mais pas que, la preuve : Marie-Thérèse elle-même herself en personne était venue du Valais.
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