1The year or place in which wine, especially wine of high quality, was produced.

1. 1.1 A wine of high quality made from the crop of a single identified district in a good year.
   佳酿葡萄酒（用特定地区丰收年葡萄酿制的高质葡萄酒）
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   • Buying any new, unproven French vintage en primeur, when the wine is still maturing in cask, is a dodgy business.
   • The other more current problem with older vintage wines like this is today's consumer.
   • I'm not sure how the company manages to source a Grand Cru vintage champagne from the Côte des Blanc for under £20, but let's be grateful that it does.
   • The wines are continually tasted, and when he judges that they have reached their peak, they are carefully blended to create the chateau's premier cru vintage wine.
   • Future studies will focus on mixtures, different vintages of the same wine, and regional variations in varietal wines.
   • Just to give you some idea of the expense he didn't spare, he cleared out all his belongings when he left, but overlooked a couple of bottles of wine. One was Dom Perignon 1996, one of the best recent champagne vintages.
   • We're popping the cork on a champagne vintage found beneath the sea.
   • Architects of Wine, which offers to choose fine vintages for rich investors, set up a Grand Cayman office to attract rich Americans.
   • But the brutish Hemingway will give him no quarter, downing the excellent vintage in a single gulp.
   • To boot, you do not have to eat to buy a bottle of the rare vintage of Noyce vino.
   • There's Cuvée Dom Perignon vintage champagne and lashings of caviar.
   • A fascinating part of the tour was to taste vintage 2000 Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot maturing in two types of French oak, as well as American and Bulgarian.
   • Kiwis have gone from drinking cask wine and sherry to learning to appreciate quality vintages, and that's a development he'll drink to any day.
   • Yet, once you're there, ordering a top vintage with your mates, there's no denying you're a fully-fledged adult.
2. 1.2literary Wine.
   〈诗/文〉酒；葡萄酒
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   • Wine lovers in the U.S. are increasingly describing their favorite vintage as molto buono, instead of très bon.
   • No, he hooked up his kid with wine, and I bet it was a pretty decent vintage too.
   • He took a sip of a particularly loathsome vintage, chewed on it for a few seconds and, just as he was about to spit, someone tapped him on the arm to ask him a question.
   • Remember how poor our wine was, unlike this glorious vintage.
3. 1.3 The harvesting of grapes for winemaking.
   酿酒葡萄采摘
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   • The 2001 vintage was a stunning one for Sauternes, and their grapes produced wines oozing in sweetness.
   • A garage wine in the true sense, the 1.4 hectare vineyard yields a miserly 4,000 bottles in a good vintage.
   • His mission was to make sure the prime suspect was released in time to bring that year's vintage to harvest.
   • Like a weather forecast expert, she recalled in detail the characteristics of the season of a vintage produced by her chateau.
   • In lesser vintages the grapes do not ripen as well as elsewhere but in warmer years the wines can be excellent value.
   • ‘The weather's almost always good for the grapes,’ he says, ‘and vintages don't vary much at all.’
   • When fickle Mother Nature looks favorably on the French region, however, no place in the world yields more spectacular vintages than the region's Côte d' Or vineyards.
   • Usually no more than 15 per cent of these blends may hail from a different vintage, or region, or grape.
   • All the Sauvignon Blancs I tasted were from the 2002 vintage, and on this showing it seemed that the harvest had been kind to both vine and grape.
   • Our climate isn't insuperable, but it makes winemaking difficult in most vintages.
   • There is a natural information schema in the world of wine, based on things like country of origin, regions, vintners, vintage, kinds of grapes, and so on.
   • The designs on the shield of Achilles, in Book XVIII of the Iliad, contrast scenes of peace and harmonious governance, harvest and the vintage with scenes of war and battle.
   • The 2000 vintage has been so kind to grape growers around the world that most of them have produced excellent wines.
   • It is a blend of usually the three best recent vintages, from the best vineyards and the best grapes.
   • From the vintage 1999 on, all the grapes for Barolo were vinified 100% with the new system.
   • Wines in America currently require only 95% of the grapes to come from a given vintage.
   • He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
   • After the 2005 vintage no longer will any white grapes be allowed in the Chianti Classico blend and an era will come to an end in the hills south of Florence.
4. 1.4 The grapes or wine produced in a particular season.
   特定季节采摘的葡萄；特定季节酿制的葡萄酒
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   • Until I tasted the 2000 vintage of this Languedoc Chardonnay, I was not very keen on the confected style of this heavily promoted southern white.
   • In the solera system, wine from many vintages is matured in the cellars in separate casks.
   • Loire Cabernet Francs are at their best in hot vintages like 2003, when their potentially stalky flavours are transformed by sunshine.
   • Non-vintage blends change slightly from season to season as older vintages are replaced, which explains why this ripe, soft, velvety, blackcurranty Cabernet is gentler and creamier than previous batches.
   • Blending two consecutive vintages is another common, modern wine-producing practice for cheaper wines, to ensure that the switch from one to the other is not too sudden.
   • Every Italian fan drools over the quality of the Tuscan and Piedmontese 1997 and 1999 vintages.

   Synonyms

   grape harvest, grape gathering, grape crop, harvest, crop, yield, year's growth
5. 1.5 The time that something of quality was produced.
   优质物品生产时间
   rifles of various sizes and vintages

   不同规格不同年代的步枪。

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   • It betrays the vintage of Bartok's quartets no 3 and 4 showing much the same use of one permutating motive governing the total thematic discourse.
   • People of my vintage will instantly recognise this as most certainly not produced by any common typewriter in use in 1973.
   • Their sound is of the vintage of rock 'n' roll's dawning days, raw but tight, energized but not unduly aggressive.
   • Among the established heavyweights there has been extensive backing of Holland with bookmakers, while Spain are justifiably in fashion compared to relatively poor vintages on offer from Germany and Italy.
   • If there is a better novel published this year it's going to be a hell of a vintage.
   • We haven't seen Schumacher at his vintage best this year, but he hasn't performed badly either.
   • Those of you who are of my vintage will remember the wall map from your school days - the good old Mercator's Projection.
   • Those of us of a certain vintage will remember what a national day of shame this was.
   • If the freak occurrences in pre-season testing are anything to go by, 2000 is threatening to be a vintage (ie: the most competitive) year.
   • After his 68 on the first day, the wine farmer uncorked another vintage round of six-under par 66 to beat Des Smyth.

   Synonyms

   period, era, epoch, time, origin

1Relating to or denoting wine of high quality.

高档红葡萄酒。

1. 1.1 Denoting something of high quality, especially something from the past or characteristic of the best period of a person's work.
   优质的（尤指古老或具有某人创作最佳阶段特点的）
   a vintage Sherlock Holmes adventure

   经典的福尔摩斯冒险经历。

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   • On display will be old tractors, implements, stationary engines, model steam engines, vintage motor cycles and cars, crafts and displays.
   • Three vintage motorcycles added a further exciting dimension for motor lovers to what was a truly enjoyable weekend.
   • The vintage selection is beautiful, with 1950s print dresses costing £55, but the no-returns policy means it might be safer to stick to the main range.
   • The convoy will be accompanied by a guard of honour of 25 vintage motorcycles and will receive a Garda escort throughout its route.
   • Motorcycles, trucks, off-road vehicles, even vintage Volkswagen bugs are part of the lineup.
   • What we have here is a stunning musical idea with superior vintage Sondheim songs, all in search of a book.
   • A bout of jaundice took the edge off my stamina once and for all and I realised then that human bodies are not like vintage motor cars.
   • Top-end couture will be represented by a collection of vintage Galliano knitwear, all of which featured in his first show as an independent designer.
   • He has a Santa Claus-like beard and often wears vintage leather motorcycle gear.
   • She said her site would be able to carve out a niche by specialising in high-quality and vintage fashion, and by offering members the opportunity to exchange goods as well as buy and sell.
   • Lynn Wyatt reached into her attic closet, rich with magnificent gowns, and selected a vintage haute couture Nina Ricci.
   • Many seek out vintage food and wine posters, which ‘have become a huge business,’ she said.
   • She also opened an office in Ireland after realising the country had no suitable insurance policies for vintage motorcycles.
   • By age 13, he had a small but representative collection of vintage rifles, sights and other accessories.
   • So, just before I stash all my bits of paper from 20 years ago back up in the attic, here are a vintage selection of doodles from my Berlin years, 1983 to 1984.
   • One gentleman from Krishna district comes in a vintage 1958 Italian Fiat.
   • The vintage vehicles, representing one of the world's finest collections of military transport, were leaving the defunct museum, which closed down last year.
   • Interest in vintage transport has been growing steadily over the past number of years and it will form a major part of the show.
   • The museum's hangars house rare and vintage aircraft from Alaska's past.
   • You can also find a similar suede jacket at select vintage clothing stores.

   Synonyms

   high-quality, quality, prime, choice, select, superior, best

   classic, ageless, timeless, enduring