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How old is vintage?

Updated: 8/29/2023
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12y ago

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Vintage is both a noun and an adjective.

As a noun it means "wine from a paricular year or crop".

As an adjective it refers to things from a certain era, especially old or antiquated.

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It is a noun. The grapes or wine produced from a particular district in one season.

vin⋅tage

/ˈvɪntɪdʒ/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [vin-tij] Show IPA Pronunciation

noun, adjective, verb, -taged, -tag⋅ing. -noun

1. the wine from a particular harvest or crop.

2. the annual produce of the grape harvest, esp. with reference to the wine obtained. 3. an exceptionally fine wine from the crop of a good year.

4. 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

7. of or pertaining to wines or winemaking.

8. being of a specified vintage: Vintage wines are usually more expensive than nonvintage wines.

9. representing the high quality of a past time: vintage cars; vintage movies.

10. old-fashioned or obsolete: vintage jokes.

11. being the best of its kind: They praised the play as vintage O'Neill. -verb (used with object)

12. to gather or harvest (grapes) for wine-making: The muscats were vintaged too early.

13. to make (wine) from grapes: a region that vintages a truly great champagne. -verb (used without object)

14. to harvest grapes for wine-making. .

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12y ago

People normally reckon anything older than 25-30 years old. Vintage now probably dates back 1980's and before.

Anything 1920s-1980s is usually classed as 'vintage', 1920s or before is referred to as 'antique'.

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13y ago

As an adjective :

The word vintage describes a good bottle of wine or refers to something from the past of high quality like an old car.

As a noun :

It describes the year or place in which something was produced like the wine.

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9y ago

One other word for the word "vintage" is era. Other words for the word "vintage" include: time period, genre, and origin.

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"Vintage" means old and special.

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10y ago

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