vintage
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thumb|Vintage by Satyrs and [[Maenads. Ancient Greek Attic black-figure cup, end of 6th century BC. Cabinet des médailles de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France]] right|thumb|The Vintagers, after a miniature of the "Dialogues de Saint Gregoire" (13th century)—manuscript of the Royal Library of Belgium
In winemaking, vintage is the process of picking grapes to create 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 not strictly correct, usage applies the term to any wine that is perceived to be particularly old or of a particularly high quality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “vintage” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.