noun

1. 1. the crop or yield of a particular vineyard or grape-growing region in a single season, with reference either to the grapes or to the wine made from them
   2. wine; specif., the wine, esp. a prized wine, of a particular region in a specified year
   3. the region or year of a particular wine
2. the act or season of gathering grapes or of making wine
3. the type or model of a particular year or period a car of prewar vintage

Etymology: ME, earlier vendage < OFr vendange < L vindemia, vintage < vinum, wine (see vine) + demere, to remove < de-, off + emere, to take: see redeem

adjective

1. of or produced in a particular vintage: said of wine
2. of a good period, choice, representative of the best, etc. vintage Hemingway
3. representative of or dating from a period long past vintage clothes