Vintner in a sentence as a noun

The cooper makes barrels, that the vintner uses, so that we can all enjoy wine. The blacksmith makes tools for everyone else, etc etc.

Kind of like how vintners choose one grape variety over others for specific reasons.

I'm not a vintner or a writer... but I brew beer and I write software for fun, and I garden and cook and all of these things...

I have heard vintners say "water the vine, ruin the wine." The theory as explained to me was that if the plants have enough water they make uniform grapes and that makes for a very dull wine.

There's an argument there for the artistry of the brewer/vintner, but overall alcohol consumption is pretty vile. But you said "no one dares to go after them" which is wrong, and set off my "wait, what?"

Many years ago I had a 1997 Lafite, which was an excellent year from an excellent vintner, one of the premier grand crus. It wasn't quite as trendy yet and I paid about $500 for the bottle at a restaurant.

Do vintners not vacation? People making luxury goods earn an income, often a very good income, and often they spend rather a lot of that income on luxury goods.

When we find a strain that provides a flavour profile we like, we isolate it, breed more, and then, yes, package them and sell them to vintners that want it. > And these flavors then turned up in the liqour store on the wine where the yeast was used.

In France they require vintners to disclose this, and other major modifications. Could we use something similar with growers?

It does raise a question - for wines that a vintner wants to age for a really long time, why would they use UV-transparent glass bottles and cork stoppers? Surely a glass bottle that's opaque to UV light would be better, as would a non-porous stopper.

They also have various vocational and technical degrees that don’t have a US equivalent, like sommelier or vintner. I wouldn’t necessarily call it better.

Cleanliness, quality control and production practices that even a home vintner would take for granted were virtually nonexistent at that time.

In wine, you have never needed to own the vineyards to be a vintner - as far back as medieval Europe, we had merchants purchasing grapes from various regions and blending their own house wines. There is still skill in matching various grapes, yeast, water, and oak - much more so than simply bottling someone else's spirit.

Robert Hodgson, a California vintner... noticed that the results of wine competitions were surprisingly inconsistent.

If you are choosing something decent it is likely to come from the west coast of the US where the food production and environmental regulations are as good as and often superior to the EU. Unlike products produced in bulk and sold as undifferentiated commodities wine, wine is tied directly to the specific vintner and their reputation.

I'm sure the California vintners association was able to gin up some propaganda stunt where they came out on top on a stacked deck. I think their hooch mostly tastes like berries cut with paint thinner, and for equivalent price I was always able to get a much better wine from just about anywhere else even when I was shopping in California. Could be the vintners are all barbarians, or just their property taxes make decent wine at a decent price to be non-possible.

Vintner definitions

noun

someone who sells wine

noun

someone who makes wine

See also: winemaker