| GOURMET | From the French meaning "wine taster" or "vintner's assistant", a connoisseur of fine food (7) |
| BUSH | Historical bunch of ivy as a tavern's or vintner's sign; the wilds; or, a shrubby clump in which to lay wait in a surprise attack, for example (4) |
| SEASONING | Traditionally dependent on the harvest of autumn, spring, summer or winter, the food/drink-enhancing herbs, pepper, salt or spices employed by a baker, chef, cook or vintner (9) |
| DRESSER | Word, from "arrange, prepare", for a medieval table for meat/food prep first, later a kitchen sideboard; a lady's maid; a wardrobe assistant; a window trimmer; or, in America, a vanity (7) |
| NIPPER | A carter, a costermonger or a navvy's boy assistant; a chela of a crab or a lobster; a child; a cutpurse or a pickpocket; a creature that bites or pinches; or, one of a pair of cuffs (6) |
| EPICURE | Connoisseur of fine food (7) |
| CANTEEN | From the Italian meaning "wine cellar", a word originally for a shop in a barracks selling liquor and provisions to troops that later came to mean a soldier's water bottle (7) |
| VIRTUAL | ___ assistant, a wireless electronic device that may respond to spoken commands (7) |
| RETSINA | Wine taster in broadcast short of time |
| VIRTUOSO | From Italian for "learned, skilful", a musician or artist of consummate technical ability; a connoisseur or dilettante of antiquities, art or curios; or, a dazzling master, prodigy, supremo or whizz i |
| SECOND | A duellist's aide; an imperfect or hand-me-down garment; a runner-up's spot; a Sixer's assistant; a vote of support; or, a 60th of a minute (6) |
| BOUQUET | Compliment that gets right up the wine taster's nose |
| ESTHETE | Connoisseur of the finer things |
| PALATES | Wine tasters' assets |
| TACOCHIP | Starters from Tijuana a connoisseur of chilli's taken with it (4,4) |
| OENOPHILE | A connoisseur of wine (9) |
| WINES | An oenophile is a connoisseur of these (5) |
| GASTRONOME | By etymological "law of the stomach", a French term for an epicurean connoisseur of good food, fine dining and wine (10) |
| CONNOISSEUR | Devotee of fine food or wine (11) |
| EPICUREAN | Film suitable for the family about an enjoyer of fine food (9) |
