Mohammed Maraqten has written an article on exactly this topic:

WINE DRINKING AND WINE PROHIBITION IN ARABIA BEFORE ISLAM

. . . appeared in Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies. This is likely to be the only article that you can easily access (its on JSTOR-- you can get it though anyplace that has JSTOR access, some public libraries, some high school libraries, any university library). Most of the other sources are in Arabic or German, or will be more difficult for you to access

in part:

Wine was very common in Arabia before Islam. Some modern Arabic authors maintain that there are approximately a thousand words for wine beverages in Arabic, while others claim only 250 words. In his book al-Muhassas, II, 72-81 Ibn Sïda collected about 100 names for wine. These words are to be found in Arabic léxica and in different Arabic classical authors, for example, the al-Fíruzãbãdí wine-list (Fulton 1947: 579-85). The variety of the nomenclature of wine in Arabic indicates that wine was an important part of the daily life and culture of the Arabs.

Our information about wine in Arabia before Islam has been found in South Arabic, Palmyrene, and Nabataean inscriptions, in classical authors, Arabic authors, the books of Hadït, the Qur'an and in Arabic poetry before Islam. Some of these sources contain information on the prohibition of wine. How- ever, it has been established that the prohibition of wine came through Islam (Wensinck 1978: 994-997).

Wine was a subject of books written by Arab authors in Medieval Islam (Heine 1982: XVI-XVIII), for example, Qutb as-surur ft wasf al-anbãd wal- humur written by Abu Ishãq al-Kãtib al-Qairawanï, who is known as ar- RaqTq an-Nadlm (GAL, Supplement I: 252). Al-Imãm an-Nawagï ('Utmãn an-Nawagï) wrote two books about wine, Halbat al-kumait and Kitab as- Sabuh (Heine 1982: XVII).

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Drinking wine was common in South Arabia. It is difficult to say when this custom started. It can be assumed it began in the first millenium B.C. and came from the North. The earliest evidence of viticulture was found in Upper Mesopotamia and North Syria. The South Arabs produced their drinks from different sources: grapes, ce- reals, dates and honey. However, Strabo states that in Arabia Felix "The greater part of their wine is made from the palm" (Strabo XVI: 4, 25). Yüsuf 4 Aballãh informed me that Indian figs are also used in Yemen for preparing an intoxicating drink. However, the old tradition of making wine and beer continued in the modern period (Grohmann 1933: 51f.). The Yemen highland is a suitable place for wine production, and vineyards were spread over several regions in Yemen like Sibãm/kawkabãn. This was a famous region for vine culture in antiquity and still is today.

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You also asked about abstinence, there is not much mention of that-- though I could find one

There is no indication that wine drinking was forbidden in Southern Arabia, but for the North Arabs we have some sources which prohibit wine. These are from Palmyrene inscriptions and from classical and Arab authors. In a Palmyrene inscription is some information about wine prohibition. This inscription was made by a Nabataean horse-man named 'Ubaidu son of Gãnimu son of Sa' dallât, who served in the fort and camp of 'Ãna on the Euphrates. This inscription is written on an altar and dedicated to the god Say' al-Qawm, the good and bountiful god who does not drink wine

[W]e have some information from the Old Testament about some people in ancient Palestine who did not drink wine; they practised bedouin life like the Nabataeans in their early history. Among these people are the Rechabites and the Nasiraeans; this information is attested in the Old Testament as the following: "We will not drink wine, for our forefather Jonadab, son of Rechab, laid this command to us: You shall never drink wine, neither you nor your children. You shall not build houses or sow seed or plant vineyards. You shall have none of these things. Instead you shall remain tent-dwellers all your lives, so that you may live long in the land where you are sojourners" (Jer. 35:6-10).

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