Possible Clues:

• Where the backward priest gets a taste for wine
• Very nearly opening drink
• It's the priest's turn to get his lips to the drink
• It, possibly, shortened part of speech by speaker
• Father returns from opening for a tipple before dinner
• Herb-flavoured wine drunk with gin
• Really brief speaker shows it
• Maybe it hurt — move awkwardly
• Drink vicar perhaps upset over gas?
• Semi-verbal, say, after drinking too much of this?