Casalino’s 2005 Riserva offers up classic Old World Sangiovese with its deep garnet color and herbaceous aroma to include, perhaps, a tart cherry note in the nose. Flavors include mother earth, tart cherry cobbler, and some black pepper. The last five years have been good to this wine as it has a medium-bodied, smooth, and silky feel in the mouth and a solid finish. This paired superbly with our dinner of chicken with Italian herb marinara and sun dried tomatoes. I don’t think I could have paired it better actually. I think the fact that it was a fuller-bodied Chianti (being a Classico Riserva) lent a more harmonious blending of the wine and the marinara. A young Chianti may have been to light. At any rate, this is a great value at $15, however, Total Wine has it on sale currently for $13. Highly recommended