notbob wrote:
> On 2008-12-08, Monsignor Tartarus Sanctus > wrote:
>> 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?
>

"Fruit forward" reds are lusher and more heavily fruity than subtler
reds that rely on aged flavors and balanced tannins for character. Some
wine snobs call the most obstreperous of them "fruit bombs."