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Praise short quote describing wine (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

credit

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'praise' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'short quote describing wine' is the wordplay.
'short quote' becomes 'cit' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'describing' is an insertion indicator (describe can mean to form the outline of).
'wine' becomes 'red wine' (red is a type of wine).
'cit' enclosing 'red' is 'CREDIT'.

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(Other definitions for credit that I've seen before include "it's on the cards?" , "Acknowledgment, recognition or praise" , "entry in cashbook" , "Tick - distinction" , "Ascribe" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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