the annual produce of the grape harvest, esp. with reference to the wine obtained.
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an exceptionally fine wine from the crop of a good year.
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the time of gathering grapes, or of winemaking.
5.
the act or process of producing wine; winemaking.
6.
the class of a dated object with reference to era of production or use: a hat of last year's vintage.
–adjective
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of or pertaining to wines or winemaking.
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being of a specified vintage: Vintage wines are usually more expensive than nonvintage wines.
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representing the high quality of a past time: vintage cars; vintage movies.
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old-fashioned or obsolete: vintage jokes.
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being the best of its kind: They praised the play as vintage O'Neill.
–verb (used with object)
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to gather or harvest (grapes) for wine-making: The muscats were vintaged too early.
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to make (wine) from grapes: a region that vintages a truly great champagne.
–verb (used without object)
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to harvest grapes for wine-making.
[Origin: 1400–50; late ME (n.) < AF, equiv. to vint(er) vintner+ -age-age; r. ME vindage, vendage < AF; OF vendange < L vīndémia grape-gathering, equiv. to vīn(um) grape, wine+ -démia a taking away (dém(ere) to take from (see redeem) + -ia-y3)]
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