[Back-formation from VINTNER or VINTAGE.]
† 1. trans. To sell or vend (wine). Obs.–1
1728. North, Mem. Music (1846), 112. The taverner finding the sweets of vinting wine and taking money.
2. To make (wine, etc.); = VINTAGE v. 1.
1857. Trollope, Barchester T., xxi. II. 38. I wouldn’t give a straw for the best wine that ever was vinted, after it had lain here a couple of years.
1908. Academy, 11 April, 666/1. Mr. Pickwick … drinks a brandy that was vinted and distilled in Sirius.
