| PALETTEKNIFE | Sounds like taste of wine can be shape or can strip paint (7,5) |
| PORT | Type of wine can be left at sea |
| YEASTY | Like taste of home brew, perhaps, giving endorsement with pen |
| VARIETAL | This type of wine can damage TV aerial (8) |
| ARTISAN | Mechanic strips paint regularly, underneath vehicle topless (7) |
| CARAFE | Artist in bistro in which wine can be found (6) |
| RETSINA | Wine can be stainer when spilt |
| OPENSANDWICH | Chops and wine can make an appetising snack (4,8) |
| YOUNEVERKNOW | One can't predict the future, or can one? (3,5,4) |
| PRAGMATISM | Such matter-of-factness can strip gamma of it (10) |
| BESTSELLERS | Popular books showing where the finest wines can be found, we hear (11) |
| TWIGLETS | Very small branches of trees; or, knobbly snacks resembling thus with a Marmite-like taste (8) |
| VINEGARY | Taste of wine left uncorked can vary in, for example, its make-up (8) |
| STORED | First signs of special taste of wine kept in reserve? (6) |
| WAFER | Fare given out with a taste of wine? (5) |
| JOHNPEEL | Can strip champion of Ivor Cutler (4,4) |
| FROLIC | "And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, / Make the sage ____, and the serious smile" (Pope, translating Homer) |
| PORTIA | Wine can make one a most learned judge (6) |
| ANISEED | Also I see through the "liquorice-like taste" (7) |
| CLARET | Wine can get you real drunk in club before "time" |
