We have a unique opportunity for our customers this month, and a great way to keep wine drinking interesting. Wines are living, breathing things, and they change over time, developing, maturing, softening, etc…, and there’s no better way to experience this than through a vertical tasting. A vertical tasting compares a number of wines from a single estate or producer, in which all the wines are produced under the same name or label but come from different years. A vertical allows tasters to see the evolution of a specific wine over time, as well as better understand, amongst other things, the effect of growing conditions in different vintages.
We recently came across 3 vintages of “50+ Old Vine Garnacha” from Campo de Borja in northern Spain. These vintages include 2018, 2020, and 2023. This wine is 100% Garnacha, fermented in stainless steel, and then aged for 4 months in oak. The plants and the vinification process are identical year-to-year, and so together they represent a great opportunity to enjoy a vertical and experience the differences of time and weather. The bottles are $16 each but the trio of vintages will be available for $45, which makes for a very approachable vertical tasting. We have some longer notes that we will include with every purchase of the vertical. Quantities are limited.
