Vintage
...of the year and of the season
of which we are born.
Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.”
Carl Gustav Jung
(Swiss psychiatrist, Psychologist and
Founder of the Analytic Psychology, 1875-1961)
VINTAGE
What is vintage?
as Noun :
1. The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.
2. Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
3. The year or place in which a wine is bottled.
4. a. The harvesting of a grape crop.
b. The initial stages of winemaking.
5. Informal.
a. A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.
b. A year or period of origin: a car of 1942 vintage.
c. Length of existence; age.
as Adjective :
1. Of or relating to a vintage.
2. Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.
3. Old or outmoded.
4. a. Of the best: played songs that were vintage Cole Porter.
b. Of the most distinctive: “Fatalism has coexisted with vintage American overconfidence”
(Thomas Oliphant)
The word vintage can not be separated from the wine industry, as the word itself is derived from the french word, vine, which means wine.
In the wine industry, there are a lot of factors that effect the quality of the wine produced. The soil condition, the air temperature, the intensity of the sunlight, the quality of the grapes, the sugar level of the grapes, the barrel ( where the grapes were being pressed ) and many other factors are very vital to judge the quality of the resulting wine. If the quality of the wine is good, then the wine will be labeled vintage.
In other word, a vintage wine is a certain good wine made from grapes that were grown and harvested in a specified year. That is why we could also interpreted the word...
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