Divine taste originally captured by tongue (6)
I believe the answer is:
intuit
'divine' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
I can't explain the remainder of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for intuit that I've seen before include "Perform (role) in exaggerated manner" , "Understand by instinct" , "makes sense" , "Understand instinctively" , "Work out by instinct" .)