A WINE TOUR DE FRANCE

Domaine Verdier Muscadet ($12.99): This is a fresh and beady wine with an aroma of fruits and flowers while young (apricot, hawthorn). Mineral and iodine flavors emerge, as well as an aroma of fresh melon. Delicious with seafood, such as oysters, lemon sole, crayfish and grilled fish, as well as with goat and other fresh cheeses.

Trimbach Gewurztraminer ($24.99): Trimbach Gewurztraminer is a bright pale gold color. Aromas of cinnamon, nutmeg, lychee and rose petals. The taste is rich, intense, luscious and well balanced with a dry, spicy finish.

Montgras Carmenere ($11.99): This wine is rich and structured.  The nose shows plenty of black fruit with a hint of spice and vanilla.  The palate show red and black fruit integrated with soft tannins into a medium finish with a touch of chocolate and blackberry.

Chateau Greysac Medoc ($20.99):  A blend of five vineyards, some of which go into single-vineyard designates, this is a well made, structured wine, offering layers of black cherry and subtle earth around soft, velvety tannins. The finish highlights black pepper spice with dark chocolate chaser.