Possible Clues:

• Something to do with wine? That's bang on!
• Sudden noise; account of progress
• The sort of statement you'd expect to get from 1 across
• In the matter of drink, go off with it
• Statement a soldier put about - heart's not in it
• What one has to say about the wine can go off
• Sound statement
• Statement - sound of a gun firing
• What you'll hear about drink if you're 19 down
• A sound example of journalism