Modern vs. Vintage — What's the Difference?

Of or relating to recent times or the present

Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product—wine (see Harvest (wine)). A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year.

Characteristic or expressive of recent times or the present; contemporary or up-to-date

The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.

Of or relating to a recently developed or advanced style, technique, or technology

Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.

Avant-garde; experimental.

The year or place in which a wine is bottled.

Often Modern(Linguistics) Of, relating to, or being a living language or group of languages

The harvesting of a grape crop.

One who lives in modern times.

The initial stages of winemaking.

One who has modern ideas, standards, or beliefs.

A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.

(Printing) Any of a variety of typefaces characterized by strongly contrasted heavy and thin parts.

A year or period of origin

Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.

Length of existence; age.

(history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

Of or relating to a vintage.

Someone who lives in modern times.

Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.

Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.

Old or outmoded.

New and common; trite; commonplace.

Of the best

A person of modern times; - opposed to ancient.

Of the most distinctive

A contemporary person

The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.

A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes

Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.

Belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages;

The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.

Relating to a recently developed fashion or style;

The year or place in which something is produced.

Characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

(attributively) Of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage.

Ahead of the times;

(attributively) Having an enduring appeal; high-quality.

Used of a living language; being the current stage in its development;

(attributively) Classic (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s and early 1990s, old magazines, etc.).

(Of a motor car) built between the years 1919 and (usually) 1930 (or sometimes 1919 to 1925 in the USA).

(Of a watch) produced between the years 1870 and 1980.

(transitive) To harvest (grapes).

(transitive) To make (wine) from grapes.

The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.

The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making the wine for a season.

A season's yield of wine from a vineyard

The oldness of wines