Of good taste, and reputed to have soft heart (5)
I believe the answer is:
sapid
'of good' is the definition.
'sapid' can be an answer for 'good' (thesaurus). I am not certain of the 'of' bit.
'taste and reputed to have soft heart' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'soft' could be 'p' (musical abbreviation for 'piano') and 'p' is found within the answer.
'reputed' could be 'said' (said to be, reputed to be) and 'said' is located in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sapid that I've seen before include "Having a pleasant taste" , "Tasty" , "Full of flavour" , "Pleasant tasting" , "savoury'" .)