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Best label: it enhances bottles (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

elite

'best' is the definition.
(elite can mean the very best of a group)

'label it enhances bottles' is the wordplay.
'bottles' says the answer is hidden in the clue (bottling is a kind of containing).
'ELITE' is hidden within 'label it enhances'.

(Other definitions for elite that I've seen before include "First-class" , "Top group f" , "Superior or favoured group of people" , "Aristocratic" , "Upper crust" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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