The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word LAMBRUSCO
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result LAMBRUSCO
- Red meat and game — and son taking care of wine
- Meat company importing a lot of hoax wine
- Bishop stopping out to lunch clamours for wine
- Note crumbs scattered over drink
- Sparkling wine for meat course, almost cooked
- Booze spread Carol’s bum
- Bubbly creature’s game, self-contained — and old
- Italian red meat: awfully sour and cold inside
- Unsophisticated type with hundred to invest in shockingly sour wine
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The straight part
We know that "drink" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case drink = lambrusco.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.