Rustic vs. Vintage — What's the Difference?

Of, relating to, or typical of country life or country people.

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.

Lacking the refinement or elegance associated with urban life.

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

Charmingly simple or unsophisticated in a manner considered typical of country living.

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

Made of unfinished or roughly finished wood

The year or place in which a wine is bottled.

Having a rough or textured appearance; rusticated. Used of masonry.

The harvesting of a grape crop.

A rural person.

The initial stages of winemaking.

A person regarded as unsophisticated, guileless, or coarse from having been raised in the country.

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

Country-styled or pastoral; rural.

A year or period of origin

Unfinished or roughly finished.

Length of existence; age.

Crude, rough.

Of or relating to a vintage.

Simple; artless; unaffected.

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

A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.

Old or outmoded.

A noctuoid moth.

Of the best

Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.

Of the most distinctive

Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity.

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

Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners.

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

Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.

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

Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.

The year or place in which something is produced.

An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.

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

A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person.

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

An unsophisticated country person

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

Characteristic of rural life;

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

Awkwardly simple and provincial;

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

Used of idealized country life;

(transitive) To harvest (grapes).

Characteristic of the fields or country;

(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