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Meat course briefly cooked in red wine (9)

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I believe the answer is:

lambrusco

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'red wine' is the definition.
'Lambrusco' can be an answer for 'wine' (I've seen this before). I'm unsure of the 'red' bit.

'meat course briefly cooked' is the wordplay.
'meat' becomes 'lamb' (lamb is a type of meat).
'briefly' means to remove the last letter.
'cooked' indicates anagramming the letters (letters cooked into a new form).
'course' with its final letter taken away is 'cours'.
'cours' with letters rearranged gives 'rusco'.
'lamb'+'rusco'='LAMBRUSCO'

'in' acts as a link.

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

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