| Wine tasting events are the perfect way for a | | | | beginners, intermediates and advanced |
| wine lover, beginner or advanced, to taste a | | | | connoisseurs, one is able to learn about the wines |
| great variety without buying the whole bottle. It is | | | | from the more experienced individuals. No doubt |
| also a way to make a new friend that shares a | | | | each tasting event will afford some new piece of |
| passion for a common interest and enjoy a great | | | | knowledge regarding the tasting of wine, |
| social experience! | | | | otherwise going unknown to even the most |
| Tasting events can be presented in a more | | | | experienced. |
| formal style where the tasters are seated. It is | | | | So that you know what you are in for when |
| considered to be more of a seminar approach to | | | | arriving at the tasting, the tastings can be either |
| tasting. They can also be presented in an informal | | | | vertical or horizontal. A vertical tasting is |
| way where the tasters move around in a | | | | presenting one wine over several vintages. For |
| party-like atmosphere. | | | | example, only Red Burgundy would be sampled in |
| One of the joys of tasting events is that the | | | | each vintage from 1995 to 2003. Horizontal |
| individual is not sipping vino alone or with a friend | | | | tasting samples wines from several wineries but |
| or two, at home. Most individuals are limited in the | | | | of one vintage and the wines are generally similar |
| number of bottles that they are able to afford to | | | | in type; for example, 2000 Loire Valley Sauvignon |
| buy just to sample. As tastings are open to | | | | Blanc. |