VINTAGE wine, sure – but vintage gum?

If the names Beemans, Black Jack and Clove make you feel warm and fuzzy, welcome to the next wave of nostalgia: retro chewing gum.

Cadbury Adams is resurrecting the three retired flavors for a limited time, planning to distribute them generally to stores in September. For now they’re sticking to selling them exclusively at Dylan’s Candy Bar (60th Street and Third Avenue), where packs are reportedly “flying off the shelves.”

Black Jack is the licorice-flavored one introduced in the late 1800s. Minty Beemans (from 1898) was popular with wheeler-dealers for its stomach-settling pepsin. And Clove’s tag line, “It takes your breath away,” has a double meaning – it came out in 1934 at the height of Prohibition, when its spicy smell masked the aroma of illegal hootch.

The company says until now, the only way fans could get their hands on the antique chews was through the Internet.

Sure enough, a quick search of eBay turned up several collectibles including not just “factory sealed, fresh” Clove and Black Jack, but an unopened 1930s Wrigley’s Spearmint & Fruit.

If that doesn’t get respect for all the lint-covered specimens lurking in the pockets of thrift-store jackets, nothing will.