Vintage
This wine term describes a grape harvest of a specific year. A vintage wine is one that's made using 95 percent of those grapes. Wines made from grapes harvested from several years are called nonvintage.
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Vintage guides
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From EncycloWine
Vintage near Sorrento, Italy, Jacob Philipp Hackert, c. 1784.
Non Vintage
A "vintage" of a wine is the year in which all of the grapes that made it were harvested. A "non vintage", therefore, is a wine that is made with grapes from many years.
Why Vintage Matters
A Wine's Vintage Offers Key Clues to Consumers
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- Vintage quality works only as a broad generalization. Some producers make excellent wines in "poor" vintages, and a few make stinkers in "can't miss" years.
The vintage is expected to show a classic, good structure, nice restraint on the fruit
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Why does Vintage Matter?
Well, to be honest, for me, it really doesn't. But that's because I don't drink wines that would really benefit from me tracking a vintage. I mean, I could do it, but for me, I really have no reason to.
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In great vintages where there is a high degree of ripeness and superb concentration, some wines can turn out to be so big, full-bodied, and rich that they are called massive.
Vintage Port-This is the Emperor of Port and the King of Dessert wines. Vintage Port is wine from a single year, blended and bottled after two to three years of wood-aging.
Vintages
New Zealand has had some good vintages recently, in particular 2000. Opt for wines from this vintage if there is a choice.
Vintage Port
This is the pinnacle of Port and the one to yearn for. Vintage Port is from an exceptional vintage and made from nothing but the best vineyards. These wines are aged in wood for two years and then bottled.
Vintage
This can mean different things to different people. The 'vintage' simply refers to the year the grapes were grown.
Vintage Guide
Guide to the quality of the world's vintages.
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Vintage Date: Indicates the year that a wine was made. In order to carry a vintage date in the United States, for instance, a wine must come from grapes that are at least 95 percent from the stated calendar year. See also nonvintage.
Vintage - This is the year the grapes were harvested. If the vintage date appears on the label, at least 95% of the wine must be from that vintage.
Vintage
Vintage, in winemaking, is the year in which a particular wine's grapes were harvested.
Viticulture
French term for the vineyard management, i.e. monitoring pests, fertilizing, canopy, and harvest.
Vintage
The year in which a wine's grapes grew and were harvested. The term is often used as a synonym for the grape harvest.
Vintner
A person who makes or sells wine.
Vintage: The period of picking or harvesting grapes each year, as in 'the vintage'; also the year a wine was made of 'vintaged'.
Vintner: Winemaker
Viscous: The thick appearance of wine.
Vintage: A particular year in the wine business; a specific harvest.
Viognier: A fragrant, powerful white grape grown in the Rhõne Valley of France and elsewhere.
Vintage
This term refers both to the actual grape harvest as well as the year of the harvest. The term is also applied to wines that bear this year of harvest on their labels. Wines that are a blend of years are considered non-vintage wines (or N.
Vintage Notes
2007 was a very atypical year. The quality came from a blistering month of April which accelerated the flowering of the vine. Then the weather during the summer months was quite erratic.
Vintage
A wine's vintage is the year the grapes were grown.
Viniculture
Viniculture is the science of growing grapes.
Vintage: The year the wine is bottled as well as the yield gathered from a single vineyard during one season.
Wine: Fermented juice of grapes.
Vintage - Grape harvest. If the year of a vintage is listed on a label, it indicates that the wine was made only from grapes harvested in that year.
vintage - can mean either the particular year in which the crop was harvested or the process of harvesting itself
Vitis - the vine genus.
vintage port: A style of port. Vintage ports are effectively fortified full bodied sweet red wines. Vintage ports unlike other fortified wines improve with age and are usually cellared before consumption.
vintner: A wine merchant.
Vintage: The year that the grapes were picked or harvested for the making of wine. Dates are always (or should be) shown on the label. Often in jug or generic wines omit the date and we joke and say "ah yes, that was a very good week for wine" ...
Vintage
The year that the grapes were picked to make the wine, usually indicated on the label. The vintage is important in cool climates, such as France, Canada and Germany, where the weather varies significantly from year to year.
Vintage A high quality wine made from the harvest of a single identified district in a good year.
Vivo (lively) Wine which is brilliant in appearance.
VM See Vino de Mesa.
Vintage - The year in which a particular wine's grapes were harvested. When a vintage year is indicated on a label, it signifies that all the grapes used to make the wine in the bottle were harvested in that year.
Vintage. Year of vinification.The year in which the grapes for a given wine were
harvested. Most wines carry a vintage date, though not all.
Vintage
usually refers to the year in which the grapes were picked, but it also identifies the picking process
Viticulture
science of growing grapes ...
Vintage Champagne: A champagne made from grapes from a single harvest versus a blend (Cuvee) from several harvest years. The year of the vintage can be found on the label.
VINTAGE (VINTAGE DATE)
The year in which the grapes for a wine were grown.
VINTNER
Indicates a wine producer/or winery proprietor.
Vintage: In short, the "year" or season of winegrowing. But vintage wine, by U.S.
[edit] Vintages
Main article: Vintage
A "vintage wine" is one made from grapes that were all or mostly grown in a single specified year, and labeled as such.
Vintage - (VIN-tij)
For wines so designated, the year in which the grapes were grown.
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Vintage : Year of vinification.
Wine coop / Vinegrowers' cooperative : Cellar run in common by a group of vine growers. Over a 1 000 coop vinify about 30% of French production.
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Vintage: The harvest time and also the year in which the wine was made.
Yield: The amount of wine produced from a given area of vines. The less produced the more concentrated the wine will be. Too high a yield will make for dilute, watery wine.
Vintage. The year in which a wine's grapes were harvested; sometimes referring to the grape harvest itself.
Viticulture. The activity of growing grapes.
Yeasts. One-celled organisms responsible for turning grape juice into wine.
Vintage-dated Champagne or sparkling wine can usually benefit from some bottle-aging, provided the consumer enjoys the older, richer, fatter, less vivacious flavors that will ensue.
Vintage Date
Indicates the year that a wine was made. In order to carry a vintage date in the United States, for instance, a wine must come from grapes that are at least 95 percent from the stated calendar year. See also nonvintage.
Vinted By ...
Vintage:Indicates the year in which the grapes were grown. For vintage dated wines made in the United States, 95 percent of a wine must come from grapes that were grown and picked in the stated calendar year.
The vintage wines are only made in exceptional years where the grapes ripen well (as Champagne, as a region, is rather far north) and can only contain juice from that vintage.
harvest, vintage (with date)
Crianza
the maturing of wine in barrel or bottle. Sin crianza means an immature wine ...
Annata
Vintage year
Appassimento
Drying grapes to concentrate sugar ...
annattaItalian for vintage. anthocyansNatural organic chemical compounds responsible for the red, blue and purple colours of grapes and wine. Incude anthocyanins, anthocyanidins and pro-anthocyanidins.
Addition of sugar in the vintage, controlled by the law, in order to obtain a good balance of the wine by increase in the high content in alcohol when this one is too weak.
CHARDONNAY ...
Millesime French for "vintage." Must pressed grape juice before fermentation. ^ back to top
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Negociant French for "merchant." Negociants buy grapes, must or wine, blend them together and bottle them under their own name.
Blending: A wine can be blend of different varieties, different vintages, different areas and even different barrel.
Cosecha - Vintage, harvest
Deguelle - The disgorging process used for sparkling wines. Called "Degorgement" in French.
Dorado - a fortified wine made in the Rueda region with the Verdejo grape.
Dulce - sweet
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Champagne is produced in many styles and each one of them is created with a base wine - called cuvée - made of different wines from different vintages, in case of the so called Sans Année or Non Vintage, ...
You may, of course, restrict the wines to those from a particular region, price range, grape, or other criteria if necessary; just not by vintage or winery.
Horizontal Tasting - These involve wines that come from the same vintage.
Most French wines are everyday vins ordinaires, of no outstanding regional, varietal, or vintage characteristics.
We spend a lot of our time in our vineyards as our focus is on growing the best possible fruit we can in any vintage year. Starting in early winter the vineyards are hand pruned and the right canes and spurs are selected for the new growing season.
Vintage Ports may require standing for several days before decanting due to the large amounts of sediment that exists. Place a candle or lamp under the wine bottle in order to see the sediment inside.
Have you ever sat amongst nearly 2000 aging oak barrels of wine, with ambiance lighting, an exquisite four-course meal paired with the winemaker's choice vintage wines from the owners' cellar?
The classic port of literature is 'Vintage Port.' Vintage port is port made from grapes of a single harvest, and needs to age a minimum of 10 years in the bottle.
 See also: Region, Wine, Grape, Style, Fruit
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