Despite all the great recipes Pris and I have been trying out recently sometimes its good to go back to old tries and true dishes. Tonight I made an easy pasta dish I light with tomato sauce, Italian sausage, and chicken. Of course this big pasta dish also allow us to crack open a great Italian wine I've wanted to get into for a while. To go with our meal we pulled out a bottle of 2009 Massivo Nero d'Avola from Massivo is made from the Nero d'Avola grape and is compared by some to the Australian Shiraz. This wine has a light fruit bouquet with loads of raspberry and blackberry. The berry flavors continue on the palate in this light wine. Massivo starts off light and mellow, but builds in some intensity and fullness as it crosses the mid-palate. The light red fruit flavors continue through the finish. The wine opens up some at the finish and even offers a bit of mineral tang.
The Massivo paired excellently with the pasta. I really can't put it any better than that. The fruit complimented the savory tang of the tomato sauce and spices. This is a perfect wine for any tomato based pastas and probably pizza as well.
Massivo is another wine from the Wall Street Journal Wine Club. So far we've reviewed a number of wines from this club and they've all been good. Anyway, the Massivo runs about $13 a bottle. You can find out more about Massivo at: http://www.wsjwine.com/jsp/homepage.jsp
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