Swirling direction - does it matter?
8 Jul 2004 by JR
Andrew McKinna, Bermuda: At a recent tasting at a vineyard in France, the winemaker advised us in all apparent seriousness not to reverse the direction in which we were swirling our glasses, because to do so would make the wine, which we were intent on opening up, become closed once more. In other words, switching from a clockwise to an anti-clockwise swirl could put the genie back in the bottle. I find it intriguing that the molecules would somehow resume their original position in the glass, rather as if a...

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