Ordinary French wine I imported, rouge lacking body (8)
I believe the answer is:
mediocre
'ordinary' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'french wine i imported rouge lacking body' is the wordplay.
'french wine' becomes 'medoc'.
'imported' is an insertion indicator.
'lacking body' suggests removing the centre (body can mean content).
'rouge' with its middle removed is 're'.
'medoc' enclosing 'i' is 'medioc'.
'medioc'+'re'='MEDIOCRE'
(Other definitions for mediocre that I've seen before include "Nothing special" , "Moderate to inferior in quality" , "Fairly bad" , "Of middling quality" , "Commonplace, not distinguished" .)