Recommendation: Not Recommended1.
Paired With: Pasta with chicken and homemade marinara sauce; Caesar style salad.
Tasting:

She said: My first sniff was positive but when I tasted the wine with the marinara sauce I was very turned off. The wine was dreadful! But the marinara sauce was a bit sweet due to a pinch of sugar I had added to balance the acidity of the tomatoes. I was really down on the wine until I tasted it with the very lemony, acidic salad. I completely changed my overall opinion of the wine. It is not a great Chianti but it was very drinkable with the salad. Since the last tasting of this we have had better Chianti in this price range so I no longer recommend it.
Comments: 1We have downgraded this Chianti from a Buy Recommendation to Not Recommended because we have had many better Chianti’s at this same price point since our first tasting of the La Castellina 2007 Chianti Classico.