 The Vintagers, after a miniature of the "Dialogues de Saint Gregoire" (thirteenth century)—manuscript of the Royal Library of Brussels. Vintage, in wine-making, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product. A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown in a single specified year. In certain wines it can denote quality, as in Port wine, where Port houses make and declare "vintage" Port in their best years. From this tradition, a common, though incorrect, usage applies the term to any wine that is perceived to be particularly old or of a particularly high quality. Download high resolution version (1450x960, 27 KB)The Vintagers, after a Miniature of the Dialogues de Saint Gregoire (Thirteenth Century). ...
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Most countries allow a vintage wine to include a portion of wine that is not from the year denoted on the label. In Chile and South Africa, the requirement is 75 percent same-year content for vintage-dated wine.[1][2] In Australia, New Zealand, and the member states of the European Union the requirement is 85 percent.[3][4][5] In the United States the requirement is 85%, unless the wine is designated with an AVA, (e.g., Russian River Valley), in which case it is 95%. Technically, the 85% rule in the United States applies equally to foreign imports, but there are obvious challenges in enforcing the regulation.[6] An American Viticultural Area (AVA) is a delimited grape-growing region distinguishable by geographic features, with boundaries defined by the United States governments Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB). ...
The opposite of a vintage wine is a nonvintage wine, which is usually a blend from the produce of two or more years. This is a common practice for winemakers seeking a consistent style of wine, year on year.
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In wine produced on the colder limits of wine production, vintage is often very important because some seasons will be much warmer and produce riper grapes and better wine for people to drink. On the other hand, a poor growing season can lead to grapes low in sugar, which lowers the quality of the resulting wine.
In many wine regions, especially in the New World, growing seasons are much more uniform. In dry regions, the systematic and controlled use of irrigation also contributes to uniform vintages. However, such wines are regularly labeled by vintage because of consumer demand. Frontispiece of Peter Martyr dAnghieras De orbe novo (On the New World). Carte dAmérique, Guillaume Delisle, 1722. ...
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Wines of superior vintages from prestigious producers and regions will often command much higher prices than those from average vintages. This is especially the case if wines are highly tannic and likely to improve further with some age in the bottle. Some vintage wines are only made in better-than-average years, to maintain their quality and reputation, while the vast majority of wines are produced to be drunk young and fresh. In such cases, a vintage is usually considered unimportant. However, it can serve to protect consumers against buying a wine that wouldn't be expected to improve with age and could be past its best, such as with Beaujolais nouveau, a wine style made to be consumed within months of its bottling. Two examples of Beaujolais nouveau Beaujolais nouveau 2002 Beaujolais nouveau is a wine of the Gamay variety produced in the Beaujolais (AOC) region of France that is authorized for immediate sale after fermentation. ...
The importance of vintage may sometimes be exaggerated. For example, New York Times wine columnist Frank J. Prial declared the vintage chart to be dead, writing that “winemakers of the world have rendered the vintage chart obsolete” (Prial) and Bill Marsano wrote that “winemakers now have the technology and skills to make good and even very good wines in undistinguished years” (Marsano). The Wine Spectator's James Laube has asserted that "even an average vintage can yield some grand wines" (Laube). Frank J. Prial, who graduated from Georgetown University in 1951, was the wine columnist for the New York Times for 25 years. ...
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Roman Weil, co-chairman of the Oenonomy Society of the US and Professor at the University of Chicago, where you can read his bio, tested the controversial hypotheses that experienced wine drinkers "cannot distinguish in blind tastings the wine of years rated high from those of years rated low, or, if they can, they do not agree with the vintage chart’s preferences” (Weil). Blind tasting of wine involves tasting and evaluating wines without any knowledge of their identities. ...
Dr. Weil used wines ranging from four to 17 years beyond their vintage with 240 wine drinkers and found that the tasters couldn’t distinguish between wines of good and bad vintages, except for Bordeaux wines. And even when they could make a distinction, the match between the tasters' individual assessments and the charts' rankings were little better than tossing a coin. When the tests were replicated with wine experts including French wine academics, the results were again the same as chance. Bordeaux with sub-wine regions A Bordeaux wine is any wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France. ...
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Many critics believe that Bordeaux has the world’s largest variance in vintages.[citation needed] Indeed, Weil found that "tasters can distinguish the Excellent from the Appalling one, even if they didn’t agree with which is the Appalling one."
Weil doesn’t consider a vintage chart to be useless. He suggests using one to help "find good buys in wine. Buy wine from the Appalling years," which will be priced far below its actual quality.
The subject of the importance of vintage is one about which disagreement can be expected to continue.
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Miscellaneous - In Spain, wine regulators publish official classifications of each vintage.
- A common Bordelais saying is "The best vintage is the vintage we have to sell" (Greene).
- Vintage can also mean of or pertaining to the vine.
- The prefix of vintage, "vin", is the prefix or word for anal in many languages, including French and Italian.
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References - ^ Official Gazette of the Republic of Chile/ Viñas De Chile: Decree 464, Article 5
- ^ Wines of South Africa: labeling requirements (South Africa) paragraph 14; Cape Wine and Spirits Institute
- ^ Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation Regulations 1981, Statutory Rules 1981 No. 156
- ^ ANZFA Standard P5 and P6
- ^ EU Regulation: 1493/99, Annex VIII, E.7
- ^ 27 CFR Ch.1 § 4.27
- Greene, Joshua. Bordeaux 2005. Wine & Spirits, June 2006, 25(3), 24-26.
- Laube, James. A caveat for Cabernet. Wine Spectator, June 15, 2006, 31(4), 37.
- Prial, Frank J. Wine talk: So who needs vintage charts. 'New York Times, February 9, 2000, B1 & B14.
- Marsano, Bill. Vintage nonsense. Hemisphere (United Airline's magazine), May, 2001.
- Weil, Roman L. Parker v. Prial: The death of the vintage chart. Oenometrie VIII. Eighth annual meeting of the Vineyard Data Quantification Society (VDQS) in Saint Helena, California; published in VDSQ, May, also in Chance Magazine, vol 14, no. 4, Fall 2001. 2001.[1]
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