What does “vintage” mean?

Answer 1

1.Definitions of 'vintage' (vĭntĭj) - 9 definitions - The American Heritage® Dictionary

vintage (n.) The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.
vintage (n.) Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
vintage (adj.) Of or relating to a vintage.

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2.The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.

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3.The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making the wine for a season.

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4.The terms you are looking to have defined have varying definitions. I
will give you the ones most commonly used and give you some places to
look for additional information.

According to the website for the televsion show Antique Roadshow, "As
Michael points out, the word "antique" generally refers to an older
object valued because of its aesthetic or historical significance."

The definition of the word antique, since in some ways it carries a
relative meaning [what is antique in a younger culture like the US may
be considered not antique in an older culture like the UK]. In the US,
the definition was set somewhat by the US Customs officials who needed
to determine what imports should be classified as antiques. Their
conclusions were as follows:

"Antiques, they concluded, were objects that pre-dated the mass
production of objects in the 1830s. Since the defining moment went
back about 100 years, the office defined an antique as something made
over 100 years ago. Duty was collected on objects younger than the
century-old divider, and it still is."

[source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/roadshow/speak/antique.html ]

The definition of antique becomes totally different, as well, when you
are talking about cars [ex.
http://vintagecars.about.com/library/weekly/aa112297.htm ] or
computers [ http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&querytime=QQAdB&q=antique+computers
]

Vintage is a term that varies even more than antique, mainly because
collectors have diferent standards for what attains vintage status in
their particular area of specialy. For a few examples see

"what is a vintage pen?"
http://www.vintagepens.com/FAQbasics/vintage_defined.shtml
"what is vintacge base ball?"
http://www.midwest-vintage-base-ball.com/Vintage.html
"what is a vintage glider?"
http://www.cavgrove.freeserve.co.uk/vintage.html
"what is vintage tape?"
http://www.vintagetape.co.uk/what.htm
"what is vintage US clothing?"
http://www.farley.com/school/vintage/category.htm
with examples: http://www.farley.com/school/vintage/category.htm
"what is a vintage saw?"
http://www.vintagesaws.com/saws.html
"what is vintage sanrio?"
http://www.angelfire.com/me3/rewetzel1/sanriotutorial1.html
"what is a vintage amp?"
http://scobro.150m.com/Rivera/RiveraMusings.htm

Resource Rags, a used clothing reseller, defines vintage clothing as
follows: "Vintage clothing is recycled, previously worn garments with
a broad range of style, as it includes clothing from around the world
and as old as the turn of the century to present day. Vintage has
great appeal in many different ways." [source:
http://www.resourcerags.com/faquestions.html ]

The Clothing Show, another clothing sales site, describes vintage a
bit more precisely: "It's a term used to refer to clothing over a
certain age, traditionally, antique. The term is more loosely used
these days and refers to clothing prior to the 1950s. Pieces of
vintage clothing are almost always one of a kind finds. Clothing after
1950 is commonly referred to as Retro." [source:
http://hornet.velocet.ca/~dseong/faq.html]

Generally, while antiques need to be a certain number of years old to
be thought of as antique, vintage has more to do with the relative age
of the item, in terms of the age of the class of things to which it
belongs.

The word vintage comes to us from wineries and includes quality in its
definition "Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring
appeal" so while an antique could be anything that was particularly
old [and, one would assume, saleable] items that were vintage would be
presumed to be of high quality.

[source: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=vintage ]

Antique, on the other hand, seems to have more of an arty sense to it,
and as well an archaic sense. To call a dress vintage would be a
compliment and to call it an atique might not be.

[source: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=antique ]

Second-hand is the easiest of all of these because it basically just
applies to the previous life of the object. If an object is second
hand, it has been previously owned [and, one would assume, used]
before. It is, essentially, the opposite of "new" and can be of any
age, quality or style.

Answer 2

Term that describes both the year of the actual grape harvest and the wine made from those grapes. In the United States, the label may list the vintage year if 95 percent of the wine comes from grapes harvested that year. If a blend of grapes from 2 years or more is used, the wine is called non-vintage or NV. Some champagne and sparkling wine producers are using the term multi-vintage to describe wines made from a blend of 2 or more years. The multi-vintage designation is to reflect the fact that the vintners are purposefully blending cuvees from different years to achieve a superior house style. Although it's often assumed that a vintage wine is one of superior quality, that's not necessarily true. Some vintages are simply considered better overall than others. That's because the quality of the harvest varies from one year to another. In addition, an individual wine may be better or worse than others of a particular vintage because of the originating vineyard's mesoclimate or because of the winemaking process it underwent. An excellent year for a growing region translates to a generally superior quality, which means there are more choices for fine wines of that vintage. So consumers should view a vintage year only as a general guideline. In the end, each wine must be judged on its own merit..

Answer 3

What Does Vintage Mean

Answer 4

VintageA seemingly innocuous term that turns out to mean many different things to different people. The 'vintage' simply refers to the year the grapes were grown.
-The harvest of grapes and making of a wine. 2. The year a wine's grapes were harvested. 3. The wine of a given year. A vintage wine will invariably be labelled with the year of its vintage.
-The year in which the grapes for a given wine were harvested. Most wines carry a vintage date, though not all. Non-vintage sparkling wines and Champagnes, for example, are blends of grapes from different harvests.
VIOGNIER ...

Answer 5

The word vintage is very subjective. Most times I listen to music from years 1935 thru 1955. Many times I play music oc cd's from 1920 to 1930. To me these years are Vintage, whereas some one listening to recordings from 60' and 70,s might consider that vintage.

Answer 6

Vintage might be a "YEAR" or a "WINE". A Vintage year is the year gives the best harvest for grapes for the best wine to be produced. A Vintage wine would be the one which is made by the grapes harvested in the Vintage year.

Answer 7

On a wine it means the year the wines were picked.

Answer 8

no ideas