Wine's nose ruined in crush? On the contrary (8)
I believe the answer is:
semillon
'wine's' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'nose ruined in crush? on the contrary' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'crush?' could be 'mill' (mill is a kind of crush) and 'mill' is present in the answer.
an anagram of 'nose' is 'seon' which 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 semillon that I've seen before include "alcoholic drink" , "Wine grape" .)