vintage wines
Oak-aged grape libations
Vintage wines are wines from a specific year's grape harvest, with the vintage indicating when the grapes were grown rather than when the wine was bottled.
The term typically implies quality wines that have been aged and may have improved over time: a cellar full of vintage wines from Bordeaux.
Not all wines benefit from aging—most are meant to be drunk young—so "vintage" often signals collectible or investment-grade bottles.
- agedAdvanced in years
- aging processBiological decline over time
- cellarUnderground storage room
- burgundyDeep purplish red
- old worldEvoking earlier times
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- luxury goodsfine jewelry, luxury watches, Swiss watches, gold watches, platinum jewelry
- Fine Winesgrand cru, Screaming Eagle, Dom Perignon, limited editions
- hidden treasuresgold nugget, treasure chest, buried treasure, diamond, ancient artifact
- winemakingwinemaking, crushing, grapevines, grapes, grape crushing
- Portuguese wineMadeira, tawny, white port, reserve, Ferreira
- wine cellarcellar, cellar doors, barrels, oak barrels, casks
vintage winesplonk
Inexpensive wine, informally
cooking wine · house wine · table wine · table wines · box wine
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