nonvintage
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- non-vintage
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
nonvintage (not comparable)
- Not vintage: recent
- We carry both vintage and nonvintage albums.
- (wine) Not a vintage wine: not made from grapes harvested during a single year
- 2009 January 18, Howard G. Goldberg, “The Brief Life of a Charmer”, in New York Times[1]:
- Hidalgo’s nonvintage La Gitana manzanilla, a favorite aperitif in Spain, is so delicate that an opened 500-milliliter bottle stays zippy only two days when refrigerated.
- 2012, Dylan Jones, Mr Jones' Rules for the Modern Man:
- And after a manhug, hearty congratulations and two hastily poured glasses of decidedly nonvintage champagne, he said, without a hint of irony, 'Why?'
Noun edit
nonvintage (plural nonvintages)
- A wine that is not a vintage wine.