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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vintage \Vint"age\ (?; 48), n. [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}.]
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.
{Vintage spring}, a wine fount.
{Vintage time}, the time of gathering grapes and making wine.
--Milton.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
vintage
n 1: a season's yield of wine from a vineyard
2: the oldness of wines [syn: {time of origin}]
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