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Variety of wine bar bottles 50 cents (5)

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I believe the answer is:

blanc

'variety of wine' is the definition.
(French word for white wine)

'bar bottles 50 cents' is the wordplay.
'bar' becomes 'ban' (both can mean to outlaw or block).
'bottles' means one lot of letters goes inside another (bottle can mean to contain).
'50' becomes 'l' (Roman numeral).
'cents' becomes 'c' (abbreviation for cents).
'ban' enclosing 'l' is 'blan'.
'blan'+'c'='BLANC'

(Another definition for blanc that I've seen is " (Of wine) white".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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