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Chicken is served with rook hearts and wine (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rhenish

'wine' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'chicken is served with rook hearts' is the wordplay.
'chicken' becomes 'hen' (hen is a kind of chicken).
'served with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'rook' becomes 'R' (chess abbreviation).
'hearts' becomes 'h' (abbreviation used in card games e.g. bridge).
'hen'+'is'='henis'
'henis' put after 'r' is 'rhenis'.
'rhenis'+'h'='RHENISH'

'and' is the link.

(Other definitions for rhenish that I've seen before include "- - Wine (hock)" , "Herein's Schumann's Third" , "from a particular flower?" , "as a European banker" , "from German river" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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