n.
  - the year or place in which wine, especially wine of high quality, was produced. 
▸a wine of high quality made from the crop of a single identified district in a good year.
 ▸the harvesting of grapes for winemaking.
 ▸the grapes or wine of a particular season.
 - the time that something was produced.
 
adj.
  - referring to high-quality wine.
 - denoting something from the past of high quality:
 a vintage Sherlock Holmes adventure.
 
 
  Etymology
  ME: alt. (influenced by vintner) of earlier vendage, from OFr. vendange, from L. vindemia (from vinum ‘wine’ + demere ‘remove’).