/vin"tij/ , n., adj., v., vintaged, vintaging .
n.
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.
adj.
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.
v.t.
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.
v.i.
14. to harvest grapes for wine-making.
[ 1400-50; late ME (n.) vint ( er ) VINTNER + -age -AGE; r. ME vindage, vendage vendange vindemia grape-gathering, equiv. to vin ( um ) grape, WINE + -demia a taking away ( dem ( ere ) to take from (see REDEEM) + -ia -Y 3 ) ]