wine of native or home growth.

a local wine; also transferred and figurative.

a translation of Portuguese vinos de ramo, wines made for home consumption.

(see quots.).

In wider use, usually with qualifying word: A fermented liquor made from the juice of other fruits, or from grain, flowers, the sap of various trees…

Usually attributive, or with the name of the estate: designating or denoting wine (esp. port) from a particular Portuguese quinta. Frequently in sin…

With various adjectives designating the quality, origin, etc., of a wine: vino blanco, vino dolce, vino dulce, vino fino, vino locale, vino rosso…