Sentence examples for previous vintage from inspiring English sources
At a great chateau, it's not uncommon for half the wine from the previous vintage to be rejected, not because it is bad but because only the very best will be used for the first wine.
A Bath and England centre of a previous vintage, Simon Halliday, feels it is "disrespectful" to other candidates even to consider it: "If Sam Burgess gets into the England team next year it will be nothing short of a miracle.
No matter; Adrian Bridge is in an upbeat mood about a previous vintage as he surveys the vineyards from a balcony of the quinta, the hot springtime sun of the Douro region, the center of Port production, beating down.
Anthesteria, one of the several Athenian festivals in honour of Dionysus, the wine god, held annually for three days in the month of Anthesterion (February March) to celebrate the beginning of spring and the maturing of the wine stored at the previous vintage.
The finest Bordeaux wines from 2005 sell for prices that are four to five times higher than those of the previous vintage.Those stories look like the ingredients for a boom as heady as the roaring 1920s or the "greed is good" era of the 1980s.
The retail value of these cases was $184.7 million, a 24% increase over the previous vintage.
Since Burgenland is dessert-wine territory, it wasn't surprising that previous vintages of Early Wine contained a slight sweetness.
2011 was supposed to be the pause that refreshes the Bordeaux market, highlighting the quality of the previous vintages while offering a lower-priced alternative.
"We have weather reports throughout the growing season, we taste the wines for acidity, tannins, sugar level, color, smells, etc., and compare the notes with our database for previous vintages at the same stage of development.
Having stocked up on Burgundy from each of those previous vintages, I have no need for a barrel of wine from the Hospices de Beaune — the equivalent of at least 24 12-bottle cases, the catalog states.
The authors predict that - in the short term - "inventories will likely be reduced as current consumption continues to be predominantly supplied by previous vintages".
