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mountainman
Mammoth Mountain
Wine Bottler
Posts:3121
 | | 12/16/2002 10:33 PM |
| | When do you consider that you have a vertical? At 3 years? 5 years? | | | |
| JonesWineNo1
Sommelier
Posts:8568
| | 12/16/2002 10:45 PM |
| | 3 years is the absolute minimum. | | | |
| Vitis Vinifera
Grape Sorter
Posts:318
| | 12/16/2002 11:14 PM |
| | agreed. One can often buy two vintages of the same wine at the same time. | | | |
| Brent Null
Roseville, CA
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2193
| | 12/17/2002 1:09 AM |
| | I often see verticals for sale at wineries. Is there an advantage in getting one??? | | | |
| skwid
Wine Connoisseur
Posts:5452
| | 12/17/2002 1:12 AM |
| | Brent, only if you really like the wine. Most wineries will really stiff you for the vertical so usually I'd pass on them. | | | |
| Vitis Vinifera
Grape Sorter
Posts:318
| | 12/17/2002 1:40 AM |
| the one advantage of buying library releases, verticals, etc from wineries is that you know they've been stored right.....they probably have never left the winery
yes, there's a price premium, that's the obvious disadvantage | | | |
| GATC
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2420
| | 12/19/2002 6:15 AM |
| | Other than learning a little more about the winery and winemaker, I could never see the benefit of a vertical. Since the prices seldom come down to correspond to a bad vintage, it seems like buying wines just to keep a vertical going is not a good investment. Since most of my wines are from a particular vintage, I probably have the most non-vertical collection in the group. | | | |
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