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The Wine Curmudgeon: Wine terms: Vintage – Newly discovered Wine Curmudgeon makes a couple of very good points about buying wine based on vintage; for a large proportion of the wine you buy, the vintage simply doesn’t matter…large producers try to ensure their wine is consistent across vintages, so the question to ask is whether it is a good producer. WC sums it up:
“When does vintage matter? Generally, the more expensive the wine, the more important vintage is. It’s irrelevant in a $10 wine, may matter a bit in a $25 wine, and comes into play in wine that costs $50 or more. And how many of us drink $50 wine regularly?”