Old vine

Left and right, two older Riesling vines flank a thin-stemmed young vine in the Kirchenstück vineyard, Hochheim, Rheingau, Germany, illustrating the effect of age on the look of a vine.

Old vine (French: vieilles vignes, German: alte Reben), a common description on wine labels, indicates that a wine is the product of grape vines that are notably old. There is a general belief that older vines, when properly handled, will give a better wine.[1] There is no legal or generally agreed definition for old.

  1. ^ Robinson, Jancis (2006). The Oxford companion to WINE (3 ed.). OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. pp. 739–740.

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