Top quality match enveloped by lots of passion (4-4)

'top' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'quality match enveloped by lots of passion' is the wordplay.
'quality match' becomes 'vesta' (type of historical wooden match. I am not sure about the 'quality' bit.).
'enveloped by' indicates putting letters inside.
'lots of' means to remove the last letter (the majority of the word).
'passion' becomes 'fire' (fire is a kind of passion).
'fire' with its last letter taken away is 'fir'.
'vesta' put into 'fir' is 'FIVE-STAR'.

Can you help me to learn more?