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This is the sense I use. For instance, at a dinner of Michel Niellon's whie Burgundies, we had a flight of 4 different vintages of the Chassange Vergers, then a flight of the Batard, then the Chevalier. If you do a dejanews search on alt.food.wine (maybe Spohn and flight) , you'll see some of Bill Spohn's tasting dinners are arranged in flights. A flight might be part of a vertical, but doesn't have to be.

Another related use is in winebars or restaurants where you can buy a flight- small pours of 3 or 4 different wines (usually related by a theme, whether all chardonnays, all Spanish, or whatever).

HTH Dale

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A "flight", in the sense I know the word (and in the sense it's used in European wine cercles, from Michael Broadbent downwards) is a series of glasses of wine served parallel in order to be tasted comparatively.

Whether vertical or horizontal has nothing to to with the definition of "flight", but is a decision of the organiser of the tasting. You can easily have horizontal *and* vertical flights during one tasting.

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That's the sense in which I use the word and I've always seen it used. No verticality or horizontality is implied. It's just a group of wines to be compared.

Better than lines of wine...hmmm

Well if you manage to hit exactly the right consumption rate, you can perform the rare diagonal tasting, starting with the youngest vintage and ending with the taster on the floor....

I don't know the "true" definition, but I've only seen it in restaurants when referring to smaller servings (2 oz) that accompany courses.

Actually, the main dispute is whether a series of wines served with courses of a tasting menu should properly be called a "flight."

FYI the thread's in ba.food, subject "Incanto again" (Incanto being a newish Italian restaurant and wine bar in San Francisco).