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vino [Sp. and It., wine; cf. vin.] I. Non-naturalized forms |ˈvino|. 1. With various adjs. designating the quality, origin, etc., of a wine: a. vino blanco [Sp. = white], vino dolce [It. = sweet], vino dulce [Sp. = sweet], vino fino [Sp. = quality], vino locale [It. = local], vino rosso [It. = red], vino secco [It. = dry], vino tinto [Sp. = red] (cf. tinto n.1).
1673J. Ray Observations Journey Low-Countries 487 We left Cordova... This day we first met with red wine again which they call Vino tinto. 1846R. Ford Gatherings from Spain xiv. 155 This amontillado..is very scarce, since out of a hundred butts of vino fino, not more than five will possess its properties. 1901F. W. Maitland Let. 23 Feb. (1965) 224 When Carnival came, our cook took herself off to spend her wages in vino tinto. 1902Belloc Path to Rome 317, I bought a bottle of a new kind of sweet wine called ‘Vino Dolce’. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 725/2 Malaga is a sweet wine... It is generally..a blend made from vino dulce and vino secco, together with varying quantities of vino maestro, vino tierno, arope and color. 1949E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxvi. 47 Ex rum⁓runner (the rum being vino rosso). 1950E. Hemingway Across River & into Trees xxxvii. 226 A bottle of that vino secco, from Vesuvius, for the small soles. 1963House & Garden Jan. 56/2 In little inns..you get a vino locale from the carafe. 1977C. McCarry Secret Lovers xvi. 222 Mushrooms in one place..gazpacho in another..vino tinto in all. 1981A. Fraser Splash of Red iv. 44 There's some lovely chilled vino blanco in the fridge. b. Special collocations. vino corriente [Sp., lit. ‘common, ordinary’], cheap wine equivalent to vin ordinaire; vino cotto [It., lit. ‘cooked’] (see quot. 1965); cf. vin cuit s.v. vin; vino crudo [It., lit. ‘raw’], wine in its natural state, not boiled (cf. vino cotto); vino de color [Sp.], a rich sweet wine, used in the blending of sherry and other fortified wines; vino de pasto [Sp.] (see quot. 1965); vino maestro [Sp., lit. ‘master’] (see quots.); vino nero [It., lit. ‘black’], dark red wine; vino santo [It., lit. ‘holy’], a sweet white dessert wine; = vinsanto; vino tierno [Sp., lit. ‘tender’] (see quots.).
1932E. Hemingway Death in Afternoon 338 Vino corriente is vin ordinaire. 1978Times 21 Nov. 11/1 A humble vino corriente.
1673J. Ray Observations Journey Low-Countries 387 The boil'd wine, which they call Vin Cotto, seemed to us much stronger than the wine unboil'd, which they call Vin Crudo. 1851C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines (ed. 3) vii. 209 Their boiled wine, the Italian Vino Cotto, or vin cuit, as the French call it, is mingled with other growths, as well as with sherries, for the sake of deepening colour or improving flavour. 1965O. A. Mendelsohn Dict. Drink & Drinking 356 Vino cotto, Italian name of must..concentrated to a syrup by evaporation (boiling) and used for sweetening Marsala..and similar fortified dessert wines.
1673Vino crudo [see vino cotto above]. 1833C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines ix. 241 At Bologna they boil most of their wines, which are then called vino cotto, the unboiled they call vino crudo. 1851Ibid. (ed. 3) 205 All sherry wine is by nature of a pale colour, the darker shades are conferred by age, or by vino de color, or boiled wine. 1966H. W. Yoxall Fashion of Life xxv. 239 P.X., the vino de color.., so sweet and heavy as to taste more like a liqueur than a wine.
c1870in H. W. Allen Number 3 St. James's St. (1950) 184/1 Sherry..Vino de pasto—56/–. 1902A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel xxii. 251 The dry sherries of Spain..Manzanilla, and Amontillado, and Vino de Pasto. 1965O. A. Mendelsohn Dict. Drink & Drinking 357 Vino de pasto, this Spanish term, literally ‘pasture wine’, is variable in meaning. It can stand for a family wine, one for everyday use... But it is also used by English wine merchants for a mediocre kind of sherry, pale and not too dry. 1977J. B. Hilton Dead-Nettle x. 85 For strong drink he had laid in..an octavo cask of Vino de Pasto.
1911Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 725/2 The vino maestro consists of a must which has only fermented to a slight degree and which has been ‘killed’ by the addition of about 17% of alcohol. 1965O. A. Mendelsohn Dict. Drink & Drinking 357 Vino maestro, Spanish name of the extra sweet and alcoholic wines used to top up the lesser breeds. Especially used in compounding malaga. 1968Listener 29 Feb. 268/1 When the vino nero flows in village bars, songs are sung about Mesina (as they were about the late Sicilian bandit, Salvatore Guiliano).
1686G. Burnet Some Lett. 122 There is near the Lake of Guarda a very extraordinary Wine which they call Vino Santo, which drinks like the best sort of Canary, it is not made till Christmas, and from thence it carries the name of Holy Wine. 1833C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines ix. 241 On the shores of the Lake of Garda they make a sweet wine..of prime quality, called Vino Santo. 1981B. Healey Week of Scorpion v. 81 Their Vino Santo, the traditional Tuscan wine of hospitality.
1911Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 725/2 The vino tierno is made by mashing raisins..with water..pressing, and then adding alcohol..to the must. 1965O. A. Mendelsohn Dict. Drink & Drinking 357 Vino tierno, Spanish wine made from partially dried grapes. Used in compounding malaga. 2. Also bino. An alcoholic liquor distilled from nipa-palm sap, drunk in the Philippines.
1901Army & Navy Jrnl. 7 Dec. 341/3 The native drinks, ordinarily known as ‘vino’, manufactured in these islands, contain in a large amount the poisonous principle contained in wood alcohol. 1903Census of Philippine Islands (1905) IV. 119 Nipa or sasá (Nipa fructicans) is a species of palm..from the sap or tuba..a liquor known as nipa wine, vino, or bino, is extensively distilled. 1964J. M. Garvan Negritos of Philippines vii. 90 The young fellow hies off and finds a present for his future father-in-law. A very acceptable form is a large bottle of Filipino vino. II. Naturalized forms |ˈviːnəʊ|. 3. Also veeno. Wine, esp. of an inferior kind. slang.
1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 56 Vino, wine. 1935L. Durrell Spirit of Place (1969) 31, I bear up very well under the stacks of local vino I am forced to consume. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §100/14 Wine,..veeno, vino, wino. 1962R. Jeffries Exhibit No. 13 v. 50 We'd better use up the red vino. 1976P. Cave High Flying Birds i. 7, I was far too stoned to take much notice of Lloyd's vino-inspired ramblings.
Add:[I.] [1.] [b.] vino da tavola [It.], table wine.
1956C. G. Bode Wines of Italy iii. 31 With your diet in all the osterias, trattorias and ristorantes probably based on fish, you will become acquainted with them soon enough under the all-embracing denominator Vino Bianco or Vino Comune da Tavola. 1965Amerine & Singleton Wine vi. 82 Stable sweet red wines..include wines of the California vino da tavola type. 1983Times 30 June 32/4 In a blind tasting of Valpolicella wines the overall winner was 1978 Capitel San Rocco vino da tavola. 1989Decanter Nov. 107/2 One of the firm's best wine[s] falls outside the DOC system, to be classified as vino da tavola. |