Edinburgh Whisky Academy ‘What is a Vertical Whisky Tasting?’ – Scotch Whisky News
August 27th, 2026

What is a Vertical Whisky Tasting?
A great way to understand a distillery is to taste several of its expressions side by side. That’s the idea behind a vertical tasting. Rather than comparing different producers, you instead explore how one distillery’s character develops through maturation and cask influence. As whisky writer Dave Broom describes it, you’re discovering the distillery’s “DNA”, its unique thumbprint, and seeing how that identity evolves in different iterations.
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