Tasting Notes - Tardieu Laurent "Les Becs Fins" Cotes du Rhone Villages 2005

I've seen this wine show better 6 months ago but regardless at the price (A$25) it will throw a cat among the pidgeons in the Australian GSM market. Big fruited and ripe style although I think the fruit is starting to fade a touch. Darker grenache fruits, a slight pongy character, gravel-like (but soft) tannin and some obvious fruit cake flavours. The latter reminds me very much of zinfandel. Worth hanging onto for 2 - 3 years to let the secondary characters come through.