meat sauce with pasta

[Thomas]

I have come to the conclusion that it is a losing battle to figure out what someone means by meat sauce, or rich tomato sauce, or even hot sausage. These things are subjective and the wine pairing is too.

But as a general statement I have said before and will say again--while it might make sense to others, I do not agree that heavy tomato sauce acidity is best paired with heavy wine acidity. So, I always suggest southern Italian wines with tomato sauce that sounds southern Italian in description--imagine that, the region's sauce and the region's wines!. Northern Italian tomato sauce is nothing like the south and it is more amenable to a northern wine pairing.

While this particular sauce might be northern (meat), that "rich" and "hot" is questionable.