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, Jacob Philipp Hackert , c. 1784.]] In Wine -making, vintage is the process of picking the Grape s and creating the finished product. A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all grown in a single specified year. In certain wines it can denote quality, as in Port, 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. Most countries allow a vintage wine to include a portion of wine that is not from the labeled vintage. Australia, New Zealand, and the member states of the European Union require 85 percent same-year content for vintage-dated wine. In Chile and South Africa the requirement is only 75 percent. In the United States the requirement is 95%. In theory, the 95 percent rule in the United States applies equally to foreign imports, but there are obvious challenges in enforcing the regulation. The opposite of a vintage wine is a nonvintage wine, which is usually a blend from the produce of two or more years. |