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Home > Wines Of The World > Vintage & Classic Wines Vintage, in Winemaking, is the process of growing Grapes and creating a finished wine product. A vintage wine is made from grapes that are primarily, grown in a single specified year. In certain wines this denotes quality, Modern usage of the word Vintage implys wine perceived to be particularly old or of a particularly high quality.Wine not designates vintage is a nonvintage wine, and is usually blended wine produced of two or more years. This practice by winemakers creates consistent style and quality of wine, year on year. The importance of vintage, however, is both varied and disputed. In wine produced in the colder limits of production, vintage means wines produced from excellent harvests created by the climate and grapes therein producing high sugar content resultant of wines of with excellent characteristics. In the new world seasons are uniform,contributing in uniform vintages, labeled as such because of consumer demand and marketing ploys. Wines of superior vintages from prestigious producers and regions will often command higher prices than those of average vintage. This is the case with wines of high tannin levels likely to improve with ageing within the bottle. Some vintage wines are only made in better-than-average years, to maintain their quality and reputation, It is wines grown in the European climates of France, Italy and Spain which benefit most from classifications or vintages, where grapes are subject to varied growning conditions creating variance in quality year on year. Other factors come in the incredible variety of soils, airs and water throughout Europe, topped with climate and cultural methodology. Vines over 70 years old on the Italian high mountain border with Slovacia have characters different from the sea mist, sun drenched Chateau vines of the flat Medoc region on the French Altantic seaboard. It is as such that vintage denotes difference and a difference excelling the norm.   Currently displaying items 1 to 20 of 35. Click below to navigate through the entire listing. |
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