Home Learn Vintage Decanter Staff November 10, 2010 Year in which the grapes used to make a wine were grown. Also used to describe the harvest period. Written by Latest Wine News Shipwreck full of Champagne found in Baltic Sea The first vines taking root in Burkina Faso Frost damage in German vineyards to cost millions Taiwanese billionaire Wood Chen linked to fake wine scandal Walls: Roussillon’s old vines are its best drought defence