vintage Definition

vintage
noun

1. The grape-harvest of a particular year.
2. The wine produced from a year's harvest.
3. The time of year when grapes are harvested.
4. A particular period of origin, especially when regarded as productive.

Example: literature of a postwar vintage
Thesaurus: crop, origin, year, era, epoch, generation, period.

adj

1. Said of wine: good quality and from a specified year.

Thesaurus: prime, classic, choice, venerable, select, mature, fine, rare, superior.
2. Typical of someone's best work or most characteristic behaviour.

Example: That remark was vintage Churchill
Thesaurus: classic, quintessential.
3. Outdated; unfashionable.

Etymology: 15c: influenced by vintner, from Norman French, from Latin vindemia, from vinum wine + demere to remove.