Stock up on your Mardi Gras Wine at Madrona Wine Merchants. Today we will be tasting two lower-alcohol content wines that might help Fat Tuesday not turn into Fat Hangover Wednesday.

From France we have a white:

2011 Domaine Uby Gascogne Blanc    ($8)
80% Columbard, 20% uni Blanc
A southern French white with lots of citrus flavors and good round body. It outdrinks it’s modest price.
11.5% alcohol by volume

From Italy we have a red:

2011 Castaldi Francesca Belevedre    ($14)
Crotina, Uva Rara
From the north of Piedmont, this unusual medium body red with citrus and berry fruit along with some smokey tannins.
12% alcohol by volume

Don’t be blue, have that second glass.