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vintage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vintage \Vint"age\ (?; 48), n. [Corrupted by influence of vintner, vintry, from OE. vindage, vendage, for vendange, OF. vendenge, F. vendange, from L. vindemia; vinum wine, grapes + demere to take off; de + emere, originally, to take. See Wine, Redeem, and cf. Vindemial.]
The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.
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The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making the wine for a season.
Vintage spring, a wine fount.
Vintage time, the time of gathering grapes and making wine.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "harvest of grapes, yield of wine from a vineyard," from Anglo-French vintage (mid-14c.), from Old French vendage, vendenge "vine-harvest, yield from a vineyard," from Latin vindemia "a gathering of grapes, yield of grapes," from comb. form of vinum "wine" (see wine (n.)) + stem of demere "take off" (from de- "from, away from" + emere "to take;" see exempt). Sense shifted to "age or year of a particular wine" (1746), then to a general adjectival sense of "being of an earlier time" (1883). Used of cars since 1928.
Wiktionary
1 (context attributively English) Of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage. 2 (context attributively English) Having an enduring appeal; high-quality 3 (context attributively English) classic (such as video or computer games from the 1980s and early 1990s, or old magazines, etc.). 4 (context attributively English) Of a motor car, built between the years 1919 and (usually) 1930 ''(or sometimes 1919 to 1925 in the USA)''. 5 Of a watch, produced between the years 1870 and 1980. n. 1 The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season. 2 Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin. 3 The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking. 4 The year or place in which something is produced. v
1 (context transitive English) To harvest (grapes). 2 (context transitive English) To make (wine) from grapes.
WordNet
n. a season's yield of wine from a vineyard
the oldness of wines [syn: time of origin]
Wikipedia
Vintage is a process or quality in wine-making.
Vintage may also refer to:
Vintage is an album by Michael Bolton, released in 2003.
The album debuted at #76 in the Billboard 200 chart and selling under 250,000 copies in the US.
Vintage – Duke Ellington Songbook is a jazz duo album recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and tenor saxophonist / flutist Lew Tabackin. It was released in Japan in June 2008 on the T-toc Records label.
Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product (see Harvest (wine)). A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certain wines, it can denote quality, as in Port wine, where Port houses make and declare vintage Port in their best years. From this tradition, a common, though incorrect, usage applies the term to any wine that is perceived to be particularly old or of a particularly high quality.
Most countries allow a vintage wine to include a portion of wine that is not from the year denoted on the label. In Chile and South Africa, the requirement is 75% same-year content for vintage-dated wine. In Australia, New Zealand, and the member states of the European Union, the requirement is 85%. In the United States, the requirement is 85%, unless the wine is designated with an AVA, (e.g., Napa Valley), in which case it is 95%. Technically, the 85% rule in the United States applies equally to imports, but there are obvious difficulties in enforcing the regulation.
The opposite of a vintage wine is a nonvintage wine (often seen on a wine list as NV), which is usually a blend from the produce of two or more years. This is a common practice for winemakers seeking a consistent style of wine, year on year.
Vintage is the sixth album by Canned Heat. Produced by rhythm & blues legend, Johnny Otis, the album featured Muddy Waters/ Elmore James' song " Rollin' and Tumblin'" recorded with and without Alan Wilson's hard-hitting harmonica leads. These sessions have surfaced on a multiple of reissues including, Don't Forget to Boogie: Vintage Heat (2002), Vintage Canned Heat (1996), Eternal Boogie, Canned Heat In Concert, and various other releases.
Vintage (, transliterated as "Vintazh") is a Russian pop group formed in 2006 by the singer Anna Pletnyova and musician Alexey Romanov.
They have released 5 albums and sixteen radio singles, six of which headed the Russian radio-charts.
Usage examples of "vintage".
Billy Anker, dressed in a vintage EV suit, was shuffling head down towards it with all the grim patience of the physically unfit.
Miss Bayberry poured Rhovan red wine in each goblet and Karigan could only guess at the vintage.
Instead, Pompey drew up the second-best chair and seated himself only after pouring wine from the flagon containing a Chian vintage so fine that Hortensius had wept in frustration when Pompey beat him to it.
Pauline called one night to say she and Daniel were going to see Mark Morris, how about a double dater On the night of the performance, Mattie got all dolled up in her fanciest vintage dress.
As for the Expansionist members, they drank in their imagined responses to such revolts like fine wine, getting tipsy on vintage visions of retaliation.
Dietrich Schill was deputed by the Club to sound the White Rose herself on the subject of Farina, and one afternoon in the vintage season, when she sat under the hot vine-poles among maiden friends, eating ripe grapes, up sauntered Dietrich, smirking, cap in hand, with his scroll trailed behind him.
The threat of deserting just at the vintage season frightened the count, and he had to give in, and the embassy went its way in high glee at its success.
If you knew a bit, and were a good researcher of long-dormant archives, you could dig up the pattern of some ancient vintage whose creators had died heirless and alone.
Could there be a man who would deliberately tie up the xenobotanists in red tape long enough for Braxi to lose its favorite vintage?
Even a fake 1734 vintage glass, with its knops shaping the stem with lovely variation, yet in exquisite proportion, would send me delirious.
In the evening, he exerted himself so far as to walk with his daughter to view the environs that overlook the lake of Leucate, the Mediterranean, part of Rousillon, with the Pyrenees, and a wide extent of the luxuriant province of Languedoc, now blushing with the ripened vintage, which the peasants were beginning to gather.
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Ditzah Pisk Feldman lived in a Spanish split-level up a pleasant cul-de-sac on the high-rent side of Ventura Boulevard, with pepper trees and jacarandas in the yard and a vintage T-Bird in the carport.
He declined the port that was served with dessert, even though the Slickster insisted it was vintage, which he seemed to think should make a difference.
I mean, the only way I managed to work my way up to assistant manager at Vintage to Vavoom is because I live in town year- round.