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Vintage
/ˈvɪn.t̬ɪdʒ/

(Noun) The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season. The year or place in which something is produced.

(Adj.) Of high quality and lasting value, or showing the best and most typical characteristics of a particular type of thing, especially from the past.

From Old French vendage, vendenge ‘vine-harvest, yield from a vineyard’, from Latin vindemia ‘a gathering of grapes, yield of grapes’, from combining form of vinum ‘wine’ + stem of demere ‘take off’ (from de- ‘from, away from’ + emere ‘to take’, from PIE root *em- ‘to take, distribute’).