### Clue: Retired vicar having chops and wine (8)
### Answer: VERMOUTH 
 ### Explanation: Definition: wine
 **Reversal of**(Retired) REV(abbrev. for "Reverend", form of address for a vicar) **plus**(having) MOUTH(… of a person or animal, informally called "chops").
Defn: … flavoured with aromatic herbs.