The art of wine and health

Abstract

In one of his lectures R. Feynman remarked: "One poet once said:" The whole universe is in a glass of wine". We will probably never know in what sense he said it, because poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine carefully we can see in it the whole universe. Indeed, a glass of wine inspires not only poets, philosophers, oenologists, but also physicists, chemists, etc. In this paper we analyze some aspects related to the art and physics of wine: tears of wine, Marangoni effect, wine and superconductivity, physics of Champagne bubbles, wine and health.

Keywords

• wine
• "tears of wine"
• maragoni effect
• superconductivity
• archimedes force
• thermodynamic balance
• the benefits of wine for health