release date vs date on bottle- confused

GAMAY RESERVE 2000 VINTAGES 289082 750 mL bottle

Wine, Still Table Wine, Red Still Table Wine

14.0% Alcohol/Vol. Sugar Content : D This is a VQA wine

Made in: Ontario, Canada By: Cave Spring Release Date: September 21, 2002

My LCBO vintage book list this wine as Gamay Reserve 2002. The LCBO listing on the computer lists it as above ----2000. And the bottle says 2002 on it.

Is the bottle I have 4 years old or just two? Confused.

Larry Southern Ontario

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Larry
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The year on the bottle is the year in which the grapes were harvested. Vintners then hold the wine for aging for various lengths of time - the release date is the when the wine is made available to distributors and thus retailers soon after.

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Kirk-O-Scottland

Based on the vintage date on the label, the grapes were picked in 2000, made into wine, bottled and then released on 21 Sept 2002. Sounds about right for a red wine. It's three vintages old.

Dana

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Dana Myers

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