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A case of rare wine bottles brought up (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

reared

'brought up' is the definition.
('rear' can be a synonym of 'bring up')

'a case of rare wine bottles' is the wordplay.
'case of' means to remove the middle letters (outsides of).
'wine' becomes 'red' (red is a type of wine).
'bottles' is an insertion indicator (bottle can mean to contain).
'rare' with its middle taken out is 're'.
'a'+'re'='are'
'are' going inside 'red' is 'REARED'.

(Other definitions for reared that I've seen before include "Brought up, nurtured" , "Fostered, brought up" , "Trained" , "upright" , "Raised" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times.
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