Wine tasting#Tasting flights

A flight is a single Verprobungsrunde on a wine-tasting: In several glasses side by side different wines are poured in sample quantity, to compare them with each other to smell and taste.

Often it is useful to make two glasses next to each other, but also three glasses are used. Strenuous it is already to compare four glasses. However, with the number of glasses per person extended the duration of flights, which opens up better opportunities, the development of wines as a result of the temperature gradient and by air contact to follow: some wines change in the course of flights. Be it that they of cool serving temperature (eg white) gradually come to room temperature and present with gradually increasing temperature with new flavors, or be it that develop their flavors by the increasing air contact and change, as is typical eg for Pinot Noir or Pinot Noir.

The planning and compilation of wines to several Flights is therefore an interesting activity in the run-up to a wine tasting. If wines of various types are prepared for a wine tasting, so you Flights plans often following:

If a wine tasting accompanied by a multi-course menu, including the appropriate planning of food to the Flights is important. As a rule, a white wine -Flight is to soup, fish or poultry paired with red meat and game dishes then a red wine flight or more, and for dessert a flight to noble sweet white wines.

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