Obs. [a. Sp. tinto tinted, deep-colored, in vino tinto ‘a blackish wine in Spaine’ (Minsheu).] Tent wine; = TENT sb.4 Also the name of a French wine: see quot. 1833.
1599. Minsheu, Sp. Dict., Dial., 6. Which will you haue Sir, Sack or Tinto [Sp. blanco o tinto]? Marg., Tinto is a wine in Spaine red and blackish.
1833. C. Redding, Wines (1851), 138. In the arrondissement of Montelimart [in France] … there is a vineyard … in the commune of Rochegude, and the wine produced there, called Tinto, sells for a hundred francs the hectolitre.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Tinto, a red Madeira wine, wanting the high aroma of the white sorts; and, when old, resembling tawny port.
