Term (also flight, swarm, passage, series, partial tasting) for a round at a professional tasting (wine tasting). A group of wines that have a certain relationship to each other is served and tasted together. For example, these can be different wines from a certain growing region and/or grape variety and/or vintage and/or price range and/or wine type. Depending on the objective, however, any conceivable grouping is of course possible. The wine glasses are placed next to each other so that a quick comparison can be made with the possibility of repetition (tasting several times). As a rule, at least three wines are compared.
Through appropriate organisation (e.g. numbering of the glasses) it must be possible to assign the evaluation results to the respective wines. Parallel evaluation also makes it possible to assess the different development of the wine through contact with oxygen and the resulting changes in aroma. A wine tasting can (but does not have to) consist of several flights. If a wine tasting is accompanied by a multi-course meal, the dishes must match the flights: white wines with soup, poultry or fish, red wines with dark meat or game and sweet wines with dessert. See also under wine speech, and wine evaluation.
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