vin·tage ( P ) Pronunciation Key (vntj)
n.
The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.
Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
The year or place in which a wine is bottled.

The harvesting of a grape crop.
The initial stages of winemaking.
Informal.
A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.
A year or period of origin: a car of 1942 vintage.
Length of existence; age.

adj.
Of or relating to a vintage.
Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.
Old or outmoded.

Of the best: played songs that were vintage Cole Porter.
Of the most distinctive: “Fatalism has coexisted with vintage American overconfidence” (Thomas Oliphant).