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Amount of wine in a vessel or little basket (6)

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I believe the answer is:

punnet

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'basket' is the definition.
(I know that punnet is a type of basket)

'amount of wine in a vessel or little' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'amount' could be 'net' (net is a kind of amount) and 'net' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'pun' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for punnet that I've seen before include "Strawberry etc. container" , "Little box (of strawberries?)" , "Small light basket for fruit" , "Small basket for berries" , "Strawberry basket" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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