Fruit provides delicious drink in Red Centre (9)
I believe the answer is:
nectarine
'fruit' is the definition.
(I know that nectarine is a fruit)
'delicious drink in red centre' is the wordplay.
'delicious drink' becomes 'nectar' (I've seen this before).
'centre' means to look at the middle letters.
The central letter of 'red' is 'e'.
'nectar'+'in'+'e'='NECTARINE'
'provides' is the link.
(Other definitions for nectarine that I've seen before include "Luscious fruit" , "creating a sort of jam" , "Trace nine to a kind of peach" , "Smooth-skinned fruit" , "Entrance I make with thin-skinned peach" .)