vintage wine

American  

noun

1. a wine, usually of superior quality, made from selected grapes of a certain type, region, and year, then dated and usually stored for aging.

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Example Sentences

It’s not like wine; something else happens, different from the interaction of oxygen and fermented grape juice across the decades that makes vintage wine so sought-after.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2022

Although fake vintage wine has dogged the industry for years, there are signs that wine fraud has reached a new “financialized” stage, where millions of dollars are lost without a single bottle changing hands.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2016

Photograph: Larry Neumeister/AP A jury has awarded the Florida billionaire Bill Koch $12m in his long-running dispute over phony vintage wine.

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2013

"Now that the days are short, we're in the winter of the year, and I think of my life as vintage wine in fine old kegs," he said, waxing poetic.

From Reuters • Feb. 13, 2011

Also, although they were alone, the dinner was good—so good that the poor broken-down missionary, sipping his unaccustomed port, a vintage wine, sighed aloud in admiration and involuntary envy.

From The Wizard by Haggard, Henry Rider