vintage

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vintage/ˈvɪntɪʤ/

▶noun

• 1 the year or place in which wine, especially wine of high quality, was produced.

  ■ a wine of high quality made from the crop of a single identified district in a good year.

  ■ the harvesting of grapes for winemaking.

  ■ the grapes or wine of a particular season.

• 2 the time that something was produced.

▶adjective

• 1 referring to high-quality wine.

• 2 denoting something from the past of high quality: a vintage Sherlock Holmes adventure.

– origin ME: alt. (influenced by vintner) of earlier vendage, from OFr. vendange, from L. vindemia (from vinum ‘wine’ + demere ‘remove’).