It holds up better than most wine and is available in many more older vintages.

Most were one to three years old, but we also tried a handful from older vintages, 1988 to 1999.

Stores generally try to sell out older vintages before taking on new ones.

Each winery will pour a recent release and an older vintage.

The value of good older vintages shot up as well.

It was a good vintage - at least ten years old, dry and yet full-bodied.

The most important reason lies with the 2003 vintage, just five months old.

One note of caution, however: Don't accept an older vintage.

Some books offer both, and among those, I prefer the older vintages.

The helicopters I was assigned to were an older vintage.