Green’s Dictionary of Slang

wine, usu. cheap.

1845		T.J. Green Journal of the Texian Expedition 279: He was proficient in raising a chew of tobacco, and sung himself into many a glass of vino.
1896		‘Frederick Benton Williams’ (H.E. Hamblen) On Many Seas 147: Tom, with true sailorly freedom, asked the gentlemen what they would have. ‘Vino,’ of course.
1899		D. Runyon in Pueblo Chieftain 8 Mar. n.p.: I had a couple of old native women [...] on the charge of selling ‘vino’ (the native drink) without a license.
1918		A.N. Depew Gunner Depew 26: Their food consisted of bread, soup, and ‘vino,’ as wine is called almost everywhere in the world.
1929		L. Thomas Woodfill of the Regulars 57: Walker had acquired the habit of drinkin’ native vino, which is the devil’s own beverage made out of something that looks like a mixture of alcohol, rat poison, and tobacco juice.
1931		A. Hardin ‘Volstead English’ in AS VII:2 87: Terms used for intoxicating liquor: Veeno.
1944		E.S. Gardner Case of the Crooked Candle (1958) 73: We have a good glass of vino, no?
1955		B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] ‘Lay off the vino!’.
1957		‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 11: If I had drunk another bottle of vino, most certainly I would have died.
1963		F. Kohner Affairs of Gidget 78: They served us some vino that was classic.
1976		P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 87: I’ll even start drinking a little vino.
1978		A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 138: Let them get their own vino.
1981		W. Russell Educating Rita I vii: Now I don’t mind; two empty seats at the dinner table means more of the vino for me.
1984		Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 55: A red-nosed old girl from Merino / Was rather too fond of the vino.
1998		P. McCabe Breakfast on Pluto 85: Look at them in there — laverly [...] quaffin’ the old vino.
1999		J. Cameron Brown Bread in Wengen [ebook] I got some salad and that brown bread. Bit of vino.
2009		J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 64: He handed me a glass of wine and called it vino.