1.〈英〉(葡萄)酒商
1.someone whose job is to sell wine. A more usual word is wine merchant.; someone whose job is to grow grapes and make wine. A more usual word is wine maker.
1.Most vintners let the wine age a bit so bacteria can turn malic acid into the "softer, " "rounder" lactic acid.
大多数葡萄酒商会将葡萄酒存放几年，细菌即可将苹果酸变成一种口感更加“柔和”、更加“圆润”的乳酸。
2.French vintners insist that this gives more depth to a wine because the oak flavours are infused into the wine.
法国的葡萄酒商坚持声称这种做法能令橡木的味道更好地溶入葡萄酒中，葡萄酒的味道也会因此变得更醇厚。
3.If this bill became law, it would make it much harder for brewers, vintners, distillers and importers to get their products to market.
如果这个议案成为法律，将使得啤酒酿造商，葡萄酒商，蒸馏酒商及进口商很难将他们的产品推向市场。
4.Vintners in Italy, Spain -- and especially the United States -- end up caught in between the two groups of drinkers.
来自意大利，西班牙，尤其是美国的酒商最终卡在两类饮酒者间。
5.And even in England, longer and hotter summers have given vintners the confidence to produce a growing range of whites and spumantes.
甚至在英格兰，夏天较长、较热，也使葡萄酒厂有信心生产更多种类的白酒和气泡酒。
6.International vintners have been driven to try growing grapes in more exotic locales, including China, India and Mongolia.
跨国酒业集团纷纷在中国、印度和蒙古等异国他乡种植葡萄。
7.Of course, foreign vintners probably rushed into things a bit precipitously.
当然，国外酒商可能有点仓促行事了。
8.Further north in Hawkes Bay, vintners are very happy with the region's red wines, predominately Bordeaux varieties and Syrah.
而在霍克斯湾，酒商对以分别以波尔多主流的葡萄品种和西拉酿制的红葡萄酒的出品也相当满意。
9.Among the first big users are vintners, because their crop is particularly valuable and even small variations in climate can ruin it.
葡萄酒商是最早的大用户之一，因为它们的作物特别贵重，即使是气候的一些微小变化也可能毁了这些作物。
10.The reason the scientists discovered centuries later is that the region's early vintners put the wine into a kind of hibernation.
按此文字，应该翻译为：原因是这个地区早期的酒商们把酒放到了一种冬眠中！