What is a "picolo" (slang)?

Question

I encountered the following sentence:

la personne est abonnée au vigne de france habite en bretagne sûrement un picolo.

This is how I get it: "the person is subscribed to the French version of Vine, he lives in the UK, he is surely a Picolo"

I couldn't find what "picolo" means here, and also I am not sure if I understood "vigne" correctly (I understood it as the app Vine).

Answer 1

"Picolo" is like alcoholic.

"Bretagne" is region of France too.

"Vignes" : the vineyards where the grapes are walking

Answer 2

"Les vignes de France" is a wine seller.
As said before, a "picolo" is an alcoholic, and "Bretagne" is Britany in English.

So, your sentence could be translated in:

The person is subscribed to "Les Vignes de France", he lives in Britany, he is surely an alcoholic.

Answer 3

The sentence has no punctuation and is written entirely in lower case. The only way I can make sense of it is by interpreting it as follows:

La personne est abonnée au [magazine] Vignes de France, habite en Bretagne; sûrement un picolo.

Then the meaning is: “The/that person is a subscriber of Vignes de France, [and] lives in Brittany; probably a drunkard.”

Comments:

• While ”vignes de France” can be many things, for a person to have been subscribed to something with that name I can only think of Vignes de France, a 1950s monthly publication of the Institut technique du vin.
• In a French context, Bretagne is always Brittany, the French region. Britain is Grande-Bretagne.
• The word sûrement, especially when used casually, often means ‘probably’ rather than ‘certainly’ or ‘surely’.
• Picolo (sometimes piccolo) is a slang version of picoleur, ‘drunkard‘, itself derived from the (now dated) identical term piccolo, ‘cheap wine’ (a loan from the Italian).

Answer 4

In this context, "La personne est abonnée aux vignes de France" can be simplified by "The person enjoy French wine".