Matching food with my Chianti...

[Innkeeper]

Hi Drew, and welcome to the Wine Board. Chianti used to be a wine that would go with anything Italian and then some. Now it is a much more sophisticated wine. The Classico Riserva goes with very powerful dishes and hard cheeses. It will even tame Veal Marsala. If you just unscrew a bottle of pasta sauce, warm it up, and dump it over said pasta; you will have too much of a wine with your Classico Riserva. For that you may want to try a Salice Salentino which are available everywhere now.