"Mark Lipton" > wrote in message
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> G&G wrote:
>> When we visited wineries in the California wine country, a name was given
>> to
>> the clear layer that floats on the top of a glass of wine has a name.
>> What
>> is the name of this layer and what is it? We've got bets on it.
>
> If you are talking about the edge of the wine as it touches the glass,
> that's known as the meniscus [1], a term that applies to the edge of any
> liquid, not just wine and which shares its name with the disc of
> cartiliage that separates the bones of the knee.
>
> HTH
> Mark Lipton
>
> [1] For you linguistic pedants out there, it's derived from the Greek
> name for the crescent moon and is applied to a variety of objects shaped
> like the cresecent moon.

Us linguistic pedants out here already knew this:-)
Graham