Definition of: vintage

(vin′tij) noun
1. The yield of a vineyard or wine–growing district for one season.
2. The visible fruit of vineyards.
3. The harvesting of a vineyard and the first steps in the making of wine.
4. Wine, especially wine of high quality.
5. The year or the region in which a particular wine is produced.
6. Colloq. The type or kind current or appropriate at a particular time or in a particular season of the past: a joke of ancient vintage. [<AF vintage, alter. of vindage, vendage, OF vendage <L vindemia <vinum wine + demere remove <de- off + emere take; infl. in form by vintner]