vintage
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- noun
- /ˈvɪn.tɪdʒ/
- Specialized
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- The vintage from 2015 has a rich flavor and is highly regarded by critics.
- recent vintage
- older vintages
- marginal vintage
Examples
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I have only a few vintages left.
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Then moves over to the wine rack, picks up a vintage bottle of champagne.
Fiction book (1998) -
And then over here we have the uh, vintage wines.
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Oh, I contacted that vintage shop you love in SoHo.
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It was distributed as both vintage wine and sour wine for consumption.
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It's vintage from 1976.
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You're not going to see many motors of this vintage with shining gears like that.
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The living room was furnished with vintage barber chairs bolted to the floor in a rough pentagon.
Fiction book (1996) -
He decided to serve a vintage wine from the year of their wedding to celebrate.
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This vineyard is known for producing some of the best vintages in the region.
Compounds
A small old paper used to pay for sending letters and often kept by collectors
A sound recording made long ago that people value for its warm sound and history
- Specialized
A recording made now to sound like old records using tape machines or analog gear
How Aged
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word vintage first meant the time of the grape harvest and the wine made in that year. It comes from an old Latin word vindemia and the root vin- meaning 'wine', like the words 'vine' and 'wine', so a vintage wine is the wine of a particular year and shows that year's quality.