Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.
- noun Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
- noun The year or place in which a wine is bottled.
- noun The harvesting of a grape crop.
- noun The initial stages of winemaking.
- noun A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.
- noun A year or period of origin.
- noun Length of existence; age.
- adjective Of or relating to a vintage.
- adjective Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.
- adjective Old or outmoded.
- adjective Of the best.
- adjective Of the most distinctive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To crop or gather, as grapes, at the vintage.
- noun The gathering of the grapes; the season of grape-gathering; the grape-harvest.
- noun The annual product of the grape-harvest, with especial reference to the wine obtained.
- noun Wine in general.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine.
- noun The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making the wine for a season.
- noun a wine fount.
- noun the time of gathering grapes and making wine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
yield ofgrapes orwine from avineyard ordistrict during oneseason - noun Wine, especially high-quality,
identified as toyear and vineyard or district oforigin - noun The
harvesting of a grapecrop and theinitial pressing ofjuice for winemaking - noun The
year orplace in which something isproduced - adjective attributively of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage
- adjective attributively having an
enduring appeal ; high-quality,classic (such as video or computer games from the 1980s and early 1990s, or old magazines, etc.) - adjective attributively of a
motor car built between the years 1919 and (usually) 1930 (or sometimes 1919 to 1925 in the USA). - verb transitive To harvest (grapes).
- verb transitive To make (wine) from grapes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a season's yield of wine from a vineyard
- noun the oldness of wines
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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- "Most SF of a certain vintage is contaminated by the Marxist notion that history is the sum of deterministic, predictable forces."
Amazing Grace, you do me wrong to treat me thus discourteously 2006
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Francois Mauss: this vintage is the first one, from many years, where the difference between those looking for “power” (to be nice for Parker) and those who did look after finesse, complexity and freshness (i.e. without any work on extraction, having enough faith in the grapes), so where the difference is very sensible.
Bordeaux 2009 en primeur — the dispatches! | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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Ms. Macklowe was dressed in what she called "vintage Rodarte"—"Does that make me old?" she asked—and shoes by Louis Vuitton, "the ones Madonna wore."
Swapping Finance for Facial Products Marshall Heyman 2011
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Happy Birthday from New Jersey USA - I hope your vintage is a good one this year.
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They aren't going to admit if a vintage is a poor one.
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They aren't going to admit if a vintage is a poor one.
The 2007 Vintage and Howard Goldberg, the Wine Curmudgeon 2007
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There's a little technology revolt taking place in Britain, where a designer has created what he calls a vintage mobile phone.
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On this episode of Seeds of Encouragement farm family coach Elaine Froese describes what she calls the vintage advantage.www. elainefroese.com Many farm men don't want to talk about life after farming because they don't have a clue what they are going to do.
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On this episode of Seeds of Encouragement farm family coach Elaine Froese describes what she calls the vintage advantage.www. elainefroese.com Many farm men don't want to talk about life after farming because they don't have a clue what they are going to do.
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Mom was right; all of her clothes from the 60's and 70's were what we called vintage in the 90's.
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The term “vintage” is one of the most common terms in wine. In short, the word refers to the year in which the grapes for a particular wine were harvested.
What Does 'Vintage' Mean in Wine? Vicki Denig 2023
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When you see a vintage on a Champagne label, it indicates that the wine was made from grapes picked in a single year, which implies the producer considered it a particularly outstanding growing season.
What Does 'Vintage' Mean in Wine? Vicki Denig 2023
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