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The date of harvest.
The collect is in 2006, but the wine finished and bottled in 2007. The vintage date on the bottle will be 2006 regardless of bottling date.
When the wine be bottled.
this is actually not an straightforward thing to answer.The simple answer is that the date on the bottle for wines grown within the US is year in which the grapes are picked. It have nothing to do beside when it is bottled. A wine could be picked in November and after not bottled until January.
There are also other requirements about percentage of grapes picked etc. See first article. right presently american wines need to be 95% picked during one year to be considered vintage. Other countries it is smaller quantity.
If you want to get totally hi-tech about it, see 2nd article attached from TTB. The USA administration agency that monitors and approves all label for domestic wine.
The year the grape were picked... I know of one close exception : Australia... They get to enjoy a magic 15% of anything they want in their wine, EX: you buy a Shiraz 2002, powerfully 15% of maybe from a different type of grape and/or year!! Go OZI!!
The date on the sticky label is the date of the vintage, i.e, the year the grapes were picked.
In the northen hemisphere it is the year that grapes grew, since the flowering is around May and the vintage around September.
But the wine that is to say made from those grapes could possibly be bottled more than a year later. The vintage year on the label will still be the year the grapes were picked.
There is individual one exception that I know of -- grapes for the rare ice-wines (made within Canada and Germany/Austria) stay on the vines long after all the other grapes are picked and are repeatedly harvested surrounded by the new year winter when it is cold ample to freeze them. They will not show the vintage when they were picked, but the preceeding year, i.e. the year they grew.
The pupose of the vintage is toidentify they year the grapes grew, since some years enjoy better weather than others and thus make better wines.
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