Until the mid-1970's it was customary to single out the good vintages, because there were so few of them.

I even have a few bottles of a good vintage left.

The value of good older vintages shot up as well.

It was not the right way to savor a good vintage.

"I never realized wine could be like that - and it was not even a very good vintage," he said.

His native France knows a thing or two about a good vintage.

Considered a fair to good vintage at harvest time, 1979 turned out to be a disappointment.

In fact, from 1970 on, good vintages became the norm.

The last very good vintage for white Burgundy was 1989.

Not too many years ago, it was normal to expect only one really good vintage out of five in Burgundy.