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Sort of wine tries to hibernate (9)

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I believe the answer is:

winterise

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'hibernate' is the definition.
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'sort of wine tries' is the wordplay.
'sort of' is an anagram indicator.
'wine'+'tries'='winetries'
'winetries' is an anagram of 'WINTERISE'.

'to' is the link.

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