I used concentrated crushed tomatoes for a smoother sauce in this recipe. I added a small amount of sauteed garlic and italian seasonings. It still was a little bland to me. I will continue to try the other marinara recipes on this site for "the one".

I have a simliar marinara recipe. This recipe was also quite good. I'm impressed.

I was very disappointed in this sauce. A few more herbs would make the difference I think. I probably won't make it again.

Mamma mia! This is-a mighty pizza sauce! It was like making sweet love to a tomato all over again. So tasty, it brought me way back to the good olden days, a week ago (sigh). It was a very delicious sauce; I recommend it to those that want to have an out of body experience. :D

Most excellent. We used cooking wine, so omitted the salt since that is already pretty salty. Also, we stuck with a can of diced tomatoes, which worked like a charm.

Love the flavour the red wine gives it! Excellent recipe. I only had crushed tomatoes and it worked out fine.

My favorite is the Best Marinara Yet on this site. This one is good too, just a little plain and my fiance said too tangy.

a really great sauce! i like lots of spices so to this recipe by the letter, i added fresh basil, oregano and marjoram from my herb garden. I also grow parsley, so that was fresh as well. My husband said this was even better because of the undertones the red wine added. It has replaced my usual recipe. I served it with turkey meatballs, pasta and snack size pieces of fried polenta with fresh parm cheese sprinkled on top (ala Giada-for dipping in the sauce of course). An easy and magnifico sauce! highly recommended.

I thought that the wine was too overpowering. On a whole it was good. I now just cut the amount of wine in half.

A really good marinara sauce. I added another 1/4 cup of wine and a tablespoon of basil. Very tasty, I will definitely make it again.

This recipe was SO yummy! My husband and I could have made a meal off of it alone. I reserved a little to serve with an appetizer of fried ravioli, and it was scrumptious. When I mixed the rest with ground beef for lasagna, I lost a lot of the flavor, though. I would recommend doubling the recipe if you plan on using it as part of a meat sauce. By far, the BEST marinara we have attempted - we're adding this one to our family recipe box. Thank you so much for sharing this, gknee!

Quartering the tomatoes so that they melt into the sauce is an improvement, but this is an excellent sauce.

I'm not a big wine fan, but this was great! I didn't have fresh parsley & substituted dried parsly accordingly. Definitely a keeper! Thanks, Gknee, for sharing!

This was so awesome! I added some oregano to give it a more Italian flavor. I definitely recommend this.

This is a great sauce particularly becacuse it's not runny. I used mine for meatloaf sandwiches so I was looking for somehting thick. The extra freezes well and complements bread sticks or cheese sticks.

This is great if you add 3 chopped chicken breast to sauce