On 2008-12-08, Monsignor Tartarus Sanctus > wrote:
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> The wife and I had a salad with apples, cranberries, fennel and star
> anise. After chewing on a seed from the star anise....

Fennel and anise are not licorice.

> a really big fruit forward zinfandel....

What is "fruit forward" as opposed to fruit backward?

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