Ideally, a glass of sparkling wine will form bubbles more subtly than the geyser from the neck of a bottle. For that to work, gas molecules have to find each other in the glass amid all those molecules of liquid. The problem is, the liquid molecules stick together. The CO2 is like the lovers at the end of a romantic comedy, and the liquid is the crowd at the airport they have to fight their way through about ten minutes before the end.
