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Wine I love in moulded jar (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rioja

'wine' is the definition.
(Rioja is an example)

'i love in moulded jar' is the wordplay.
'i love' becomes 'io' (I've seen this in other clues).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'moulded' indicates anagramming the letters.
'jar' with letters rearranged gives 'rja'.
'io' going into 'rja' is 'RIOJA'.

(Other definitions for rioja that I've seen before include "Spanish wine variety" , "Spanish wine type" , "Spanish table wine" , "North Spanish wine" , "kind of red" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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