2007-01-09 06:05:39 · 2 answers · asked by j p 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
Vintage refers to the year it was made.
A non-vintage wine means the year isn't listed on the label and *may* contain wine from different years.
Champagne is often released non-vintage (ie. without a date) because the region doesn't get consistently ripe grapes every year. They have to blend wines from both good and bad years so that the product is consistently pretty good every year.
2007-01-09 07:05:13 · answer #1 · answered by nathanyarnold 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vintage means the year the grapes were picked. If a wine has a vintage year on it, then it means that the grapes were picked in that year (or at least 75% in the USA, more elsewhere)
So a non-vintage wine is one that doesn't show a year on its label. Most wines are vintage wines (just look around your supermarket wine shelves), but some are non-vintage -- which means they contain a blend of various years.
Vintage does not mean a wine less than 25 years old (the lesson is not to believe don't believe alcoholic friends) and 'deliciasy...' --- if you are going to copy chunks out of Wikipedia then you should acknowledge that you have done so.
2007-01-09 07:56:42 · answer #2 · answered by Pontac 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Vintage Means
2016-10-01 08:34:42 · answer #3 · answered by mackie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vintage, in wine-making, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product.
A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown in a single specified year. In certain wines it can denote quality, as in Port, where Port houses make and declare "vintage" Port in their best years. From this tradition, a common, though incorrect, usage applies the term to any wine that is perceived to be particularly old or of a particularly high quality.
Most countries allow a vintage wine to include a portion of wine that is not from the year denoted on the label. Australia, New Zealand and the member states of the European Union require 85% same-year content for vintage-dated wine. In Chile and South Africa, the requirement is only 75%. In the United States, the requirement is 85%, unless the wine is designated with an AVA, (e.g., Russian River Valley), in which case it is 95%. Technically, the 85% rule in the United States applies equally to foreign imports, but there are obvious challenges in enforcing the regulation.
The opposite of a vintage wine is a nonvintage wine, which is usually a blend from the produce of two or more years. This is a common practice for winemakers seeking a consistent style of wine, year on year.
2007-01-09 06:12:28 · answer #4 · answered by deliciasyvariedades 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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I cant speak to all of these, but in reference to the whisky, I can say there are quite a few good bourbon's in particular Pappy Van Winkle comes to mind, I have the 23 year and it'll run 250-300 a bottle. This is for a same year release, If you bought an older vintage I would say it could cost more. I think speaking retail would be a better point of argument, because when something becomes collectible like a 64 la tour well then were talking auctions, and all sorts of prices variation, I mean there is no way to say what something is worth other than measuring it by what someone is willing to pay for it. Now when you say widely available I assume that to mean retail basically, or at least retail through the net, this being said most of the really good brands of spirits are hard to get internationally, well thats not completely true but in alot of cases in can be. I've never seen a bottle of Pappy van Winkle in europe, then again I've been to scotland, and you can't touch a bottle of decent scotch for the price they ask for it over there, but here in the states it's generally a way better deal. The brits tax the heck out of spirits forcing all the people to drink ale, and lager it seems. I think maybe you need to re-phraze your question. Should we include port or madiera, sake, there are a ton of alcohols in the world, cachasa, rum, I mean, and what is widely available, the net, the states...I guess the question just seems to broad to me to offer alot of info.
2016-04-04 22:53:43 · answer #5 · answered by Tammie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is unanswerable. It depends on where you are, what you regard as worth drinking, what you regard as expensive. For example, vintage champagnes are declared only when the estate thinks it's had a good year. You may disagree. Equally, vodka in Russia ia about $ 5.00 a litre for stuff we've heard of - Smirnoff, but scotch is about $ 150 a litre. Too many variables.
2016-03-16 00:13:50 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's less than 25 years old, so my alcoholic friend says.
2007-01-09 06:12:22 · answer #7 · answered by sinned 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋