vintage Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a season's yield of wine from a vineyard
  2. noun the oldness of wines
    time of origin.

WordNet

Vint"age noun
Etymology
Corrupted by influence of vintner, vintry, from OE. vindage, vendage, for vendange, OF. vendenge, F. vendange, from L. vindemia; vinum wine, grapes + demere to take off; de + emere, originally, to take. See Wine, Redeem, and cf. Vindemial.
Definitions
  1. The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.
  2. The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making the wine for a season. Milton.

Webster 1913