vintage

     

Vintage, in wine-making, is the process of picking grapes an creating the finished product. 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.

Trivia about vintage

  • Fine port that can be drunk at once may be marked L.B.V., "Late Bottled" this
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  • In the world of wine, this word refers to the year the grapes were harvested
  • From the Latin for "grape-gathering", it's the time for gathering grapes for wine