vintage wine
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
Like a vintage wine, it can take years to become a diva.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2017
There is also furniture and even a couple of bottles of vintage wine.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2014
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
You are as much out of your place as a vintage wine at a harvest supper.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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