Well, if we start with Franc's wine analogy, "vintage" is simply the year it was produced, including possibly 2016. It has nothing to do with "old" or "good".

In other areas, vintage refers to an broader but still identifiable time period, as in "Depression vintage" or "Fifties vintage".


While "vintage" denotes a time period, it could be any time period, rather than connoting a specific minimum number of years old.

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