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Italian red meat course nearly cooked (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lambrusco

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'italian red' is the definition.
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'meat course nearly cooked' is the wordplay.
'meat' becomes 'lamb' (lamb is a kind of meat).
'nearly' means to remove the last letter.
'cooked' indicates anagramming the letters (letters cooked into a new form).
'course' with its last letter taken away is 'cours'.
'cours' anagrammed gives 'rusco'.
'lamb'+'rusco'='LAMBRUSCO'

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(Other definitions for lambrusco that I've seen before include "Medium sweet, semi-sparkling Italian red or white wine" , "Sparkling Italian wine" , "Type of Italian wine" .)

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