名詞 vintage:

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

1. He has some rare old vintage in his collection of wine.
   在他的酒類收藏中有一些名貴的陳年葡萄酒。
2. What vintage is this wine?
   這種酒是哪一年釀造的？
3. The vintage was later than usual.
   那次葡萄采收期比平常年份晚。

vin.tage

n.（名詞）
The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.
葡萄產(chǎn)量：一片葡萄園或地區(qū)在一個季節(jié)所獲得的葡萄酒或葡萄的產(chǎn)量
Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
美酒：同一年和同一葡萄園生產(chǎn)的或源于同一地方的高品質(zhì)酒
The year or place in which a wine is bottled.
酒產(chǎn)年，酒產(chǎn)地：瓶裝酒的年代或地點

The harvesting of a grape crop.
葡萄的豐收：葡萄產(chǎn)量的豐收
The initial stages of winemaking.
初期階斷：制酒的初步階段
Informal
【非正式用語】
A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.
某一時代產(chǎn)生的事物或人物：具有某種相同特點的人或物的集合
A year or period of origin:
制造年份：開始存在的年代或時期：
例句：
a car of 942 vintage.
一部一九四二年出廠的汽車

Length of existence; age.
壽命：存在時間長短；年代
adj.（形容詞）
Of or relating to a vintage.
釀酒的：釀酒的或與釀酒有關(guān)的
Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.
古老而享有聲譽的：具有優(yōu)秀、成熟或持久魅力特點的；古典的
Old or outmoded.
老式的，過時的：老的或不時興的

Of the best:
最好的：
例句：
played songs that were vintage Cole Porter.
彈奏的是最好的科爾·波特的曲子

Of the most distinctive:
最有特色的：
例句：
.It was vintage Nixon: the fear of confrontation; the indirect approach; the acute insight.(Henry A. Kissinger)
.這就是獨特的尼克松：害怕對峙；方法間接；洞察力敏銳.(亨利A.基辛格)

來源：
Middle English
中古英語
from Anglo-Norman
源自 英法語
alteration influenced by viniter [vintner]
受 viniter的影響 [出售葡萄酒的人]
of Old French vendange
古法語 vendange的變化
from Latin vondômia
源自 拉丁語 vondômia
vonum [grapes]
vonum [葡萄]
dômere [to take off] dô [de-] emere [to obtain] * see em-
dômere [脫下] dô [前綴de-] emere [獲取] *參見 em-