She serves up hot claret (9)

I believe the answer is:

charlotte

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'she' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'up hot claret' is the wordplay.
'up' indicates an anagram (letters get chucked up).
'hot'+'claret'='hotclaret'
'hotclaret' with letters rearranged gives 'CHARLOTTE'.

'serves' is the link.

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(Other definitions for charlotte that I've seen before include "Victorian novelist" , "... one of the Brontes" , "US city" , "Pudding; girl" , "Yorkshire novelist" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.

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