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Apprehensive admitting girl makes wine (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chardonnay

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'wine' is the definition.
(Chardonnay is an example)

'apprehensive admitting girl' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'girl' could be 'donna' and 'donna' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'chary' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'makes' is the link.

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(Other definitions for chardonnay that I've seen before include "Variety of white wine" , "White wine grape" , "drink" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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