Hostelries talk wine up, regularly rubbish
I believe the answer is:
gastropubs
'hostelries' is the definition.
'talk wine up regularly rubbish' is the wordplay.
'talk' becomes 'gas' (I've seen this before).
'wine' becomes 'port' (port is a kind of wine**).
'up' is a reversal indicator (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'regularly' indicates alternate letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
The alternating letters of 'rubbish' are 'ubs'.
'port' reversed gives 'trop'.
'gas'+'trop'+'ubs'='GASTROPUBS'
I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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