The Telegraph begin their Friday cryptic with this:
In this case, ‘cases’ is doing the hard work. It’s telling us to look at the beginning and the ends of the words near it.
By taking the first and last letters from ‘Armagnac’, ‘champagne’ and ‘port’ we get six letters ‘AC’, ‘CE’ and ‘PT’.
Put it all together and we find our answer — ACCEPT, a synonym of ‘take’. Did you spot it?