A special form of wine tasting in which wines from different vintages from a single producer or winery (therefore also referred to as a château vertical) are usually compared with each other in order to determine the influence of the vintage on the wine quality through a professional wine evaluation (judgement) and wine description. The winery can also act as a representative for an entire wine-growing region.
Ideally, these are wines of the same grape variety blend, the same style of vinification and from the same vineyard. The "vertical" refers to the time axis (vintages) "from top to bottom". The aim is therefore not to determine the differences in quality between producers, but between several vintages. Whether this is done in the form of a blind tasting (then called a blind vertical) depends on the objective.
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