vintage wine
Americannoun
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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
Who said every still wine has to be a vintage wine?
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2020
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
It was not exactly a vintage wine, but I was in no mood to be over-critical, and I drank off a couple of glasses with the utmost appreciation.
From A Rogue by Compulsion by Bridges, Victor
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