Why do champagne bubbles all originate from the same place in the glass?

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I’m drinking out of a round rocks glass and noticed all the bubbles are coming from a few bubble geysers; this is instead of soda and sparkling water where the bubbles seem to be more random and chaotic. Why is this?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

That’s a key bubble formation point, there is probably some cavity or dirt there, which bubble can grow on

Anonymous 0 Comments

The CO2 dissolved in the champagne can’t go back to gaseous form in the middle of a liquid, only at a liquid/gas interface. So bubbles only form around small impurities (a speck of dust or a towel fibre on the surface of the glass) witch trap a small air bubble around them.