Actually, I would say you are all right to some extent. Commercial wine grapes are harvested and processed the same year so as long as they are not blended over the limits Rocky stated, they label it with the year, the "vintage". They have to label them that way because the law says so, but it does help for reference. The issue is when home winemakers use a kit which has been preserved and the fermentation not started for a year or more, what date then? Do we refer to the year the grapes were grown so that we know if it was a good year or not? Do we use the date we make the wine, for our own records? I guess it does not really matter. As long as we let our friends know what they are getting as Peter does and we are not misrepresenting our wines, who cares. They are getting it for free so they can't complain anyway.
Wade is right, when all of the planets align and everything clicks, it is described as a "vintage year", "vintage" was a noun and "vintage year" is an adjective describing the year. 1918 and1945 in Europe were examples and it is yet to be proven if 2010 was in New York State. You can't make good wine from bad grapes but you can sure screw up a good year if you don't know what you are doing. Like appleman says, you can give a Stradivarius to a novice, that is no guarantee you will be playing at Carnegie Hall. I guess everyone is saying pretty much the same thing just a little differently.
Now you are saying, "I wish he would go back to lurking".
Wade is right, when all of the planets align and everything clicks, it is described as a "vintage year", "vintage" was a noun and "vintage year" is an adjective describing the year. 1918 and1945 in Europe were examples and it is yet to be proven if 2010 was in New York State. You can't make good wine from bad grapes but you can sure screw up a good year if you don't know what you are doing. Like appleman says, you can give a Stradivarius to a novice, that is no guarantee you will be playing at Carnegie Hall. I guess everyone is saying pretty much the same thing just a little differently.
Now you are saying, "I wish he would go back to lurking".
