Does it affect the taste in any way?
2006-09-01 05:20:53 · 5 answers · asked by stuinblue 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
After you swirl wine around in the glass, as the wine settles it will leave "legs" on the side of the glass. These tell you if the wine is watery (hardly any legs) or quite viscous (thicker legs). Thicker legs are usually indicative of a higher alcohol content in the wine. Legs have no bearing on the taste of a wine.
2006-09-01 05:30:17 · answer #1 · answered by Ism 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Legs On Wine
2016-12-12 14:44:15 · answer #2 · answered by luci 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wine Legs
2016-09-28 05:51:10 · answer #3 · answered by lounsberry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before we all became politically correct, they were generally known as 'ladies legs'.
What it means is that after you swirl your wine around in the glass, it sticks to the side and slowly slides down leaving rivulets or 'legs'.
Many consider them to be a sign of a good wine, and some say that they are caused by glycerol in the wine but it is really an indication of alcoholic strength*, and they are caused by a process of evaporation affecting surface tension.
They are more correctly called 'tears'.
*of course, some people consider high alcohol is a sign of a good wine :)
2006-09-01 05:40:36 · answer #4 · answered by Pontac 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
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When someone talks about wine having good legs, what does that mean?
Does it affect the taste in any way?
2015-08-02 04:28:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It refers to an evaporation effect that happens in higher alcohol wines when the wine leaves a slight film on the glass after being drunk. As it drips back into the glass it does so unevenly, leaving streamers of wine that appear on the side of the glass. These are called the wine's tears, or the wine's legs.
It happens far more often with higher alcohol wines. The phenomenon itself will not affect taste, except for the fact that it only happens in higher alcohol wines, and the higher alcohol will affect taste. It does not, as suggested above, refer solely to a taste phenomenon, or the longevity of the flavor of the wine.
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2006-09-01 05:38:54 · answer #6 · answered by yodasminion 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
It means that the flavors of the wine linger for a while on your pallette and do not disappear right after the initial taste. "Having good legs" generally equates to having good endurance as in a thoroughbred horse.
2006-09-01 05:25:01 · answer #7 · answered by James V 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋
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2016-07-27 12:04:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You raise some good points in your question.
2016-08-23 05:54:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
having goo legs like it can stand alone, endurance.
2006-09-01 05:26:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋