vintage

plural vintages

1. countableuncountableThe yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.
2. countableuncountableWine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.

   I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

   1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 1, in Tarzan of the Apes

3. countableuncountableThe harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.
4. countableuncountableThe year or place in which something is produced.

comparative more vintage · superlative most vintage

1. attributiveOf or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage.
2. attributiveHaving an enduring appeal; high-quality.
3. Classic, or old enough to be recognizably outdated but not old enough to be antique (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s or 1990s, old magazines, etc.).
   1. attributiveOf a motor carbuilt between the years 1919 and (usually) 1930 (or sometimes 1919 to 1925 in the USA).
   2. attributiveOf a watchproduced between the years 1870 and 1980.
   3. attributiveOf an item of clothingproduced between the years of 1945 and 1970, during the post-war period.

present singular third person vintages · participle present vintaging · participle past vintaged · past vintaged

1. transitiveTo harvest (grapes).
2. transitiveTo make (wine) from grapes.