Industry jargon
…a tasting of the same wine in different, usually consecutive, vintages.
A vertical tasting helps winemakers and wine connoisseurs to get an overall picture of quality and style consistency. It also provides information about the characteristic and development of each individual vintage. And the opposite of a vertical tasting? That’s right, a horizontal tasting. This type of tasting usually involves stylistically similar wines from the same vintage.
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