White Wine Legs on My Chardonnay

Dear Alleigh:
In your post about wine legs, you have a picture of red wine. Does white wine have legs?

This is an easier question for me to answer than it is for me to take a picture of, since the color of white wine legs make them very hard to capture, but yes, white wine can have legs too.  I am sorry the image is a little underexposed, but it was the only way to ensure getting a good look at the wine dripping down the side of the glass.

Big, drippy wine “legs” or “tears” tend to be more common in red wines because they tend to have a higher alcohol content, and the wine legs appear when the alcohol in the wine evaporates.  However, a noticeable exception are dessert wines, as they tend to have very big legs.

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–Alleigh

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