With an amazing Italian dinner, I had this wine alongside a Reserva Chianti and a well-aged Amarone, both of which I though would spank the California long shot. It wasn’t the biggest wine (the Amarone was huge!), but it was the most complex and worked the best with the food.

Loads of cherry, spice, wood, and a little smoke all go from the nose to the palate to the really long finish. Drinking this wine slowed down quickly as I ate, just because I didn’t want to cut short the wine’s flavors that wouldn’t leave my tongue.

Whether turkey is on the menu this week or not, make sure to serve something with tomatoes so that you can justify opening this wine. For under $20, it’s hard to find much better, and it’ll really class-up the inevitable large pizza.

Cheers,
TSW

Wilder on Wine readers in the U.S. are all wondering what vino to serve with Thanksgiving dinner. This sangiovese is a perfect choice, but not because it goes with turkey. It’s not a horrible pairing, but pinot noir or a Julienas or Moulin-a-Vent Beaujolais would be much better.

Luna’s sangiovese is an ideal match for the pizza that statistically 37 percent of all Thanksgiving-celebrating families will order when their turkeys are overcooked -- or dangerously undercooked -- and transformed into a 20 lb. "TurkNugget."

Sangiovese is a difficult grape to grow just about anywhere outside of the greater Tuscan region (which isn’t so expansive as to include Napa), but Luna has absolutely nailed it!