Perhaps red port city, Germanyes (5)

Independent Cryptic #12241 | 7 Down | 2026-01-01
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

RIO (short for Rio de Janeiro = port city in Brazil) + JA (German word for yes). Wine from the Rioja region of Spain: it’s best known for red wine (“red” for short) but also produces white wine, hence the “perhaps”.

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