Cabernet Shiraz

Roast tenderloin is dead simple: Just about any dry red table wine would work perfectly. But brussels sprouts complicate the choice. The strong taste of that vegetable requires an assertive wine. So, if you have wines on hand, look for something like a big cabernet, shiraz or zinfandel. If going to your local wine and spirits shop, look for Wildberry Shiraz 2007, Margaret River, Australia (PLCB #14320, $9.99) . This juicy bottle has aromas of blackberries, cherries and plums layered with chocolate and leather. High in alcohol, it should be opened one to two hours before serving. If you have a pretty decanter, this would be the perfect time to use it (the wine will benefit from the aeration it would get being transferred).

Another good choice would be Bodega Norton Malbec Reserve 2006, Mendoza, Argentina (PLCB #15603, $11.99) . This Chairman's Selection wine garnered 90 points from Wine Spectator and normally sells for $18. Made from grapes grown on old vines, it's big and chewy with plum and fig aromas combined with mocha and spice. I would open an hour before serving but probably not decant.

Or try an old-world wine made in a new-world style. It's a Portuguese wine made by an Australian winemaker.

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Wines being shipped over include the Creative Block wines, including Creative Block 2, 2009 Sauvignon Blanc/Semillon (rrp: £11.99), which has a very vegetal nose of green pepper and freshly mown lawn, with a weighty and well-balanced mouthfeel. Creative Block 3, 2007 (rrp: £14.99), is a Shiraz/Mourvèdre/Viognier blend with a perfumed, violent and plums on the nose and zingy, juicy red fruits in the mouth and velvety texture.

The next price level is the Private Collection. The Private Collection Pinotage 2006 (rsp: £15.99) is pleasantly delicate and elegant for the variety, with a lovely nose of raspberries and redcurrants and almost like a Kiwi Pinot Noir in the mouth.

The 2004 Frans K Smit is a premium, Bordeaux-style blend with Cabernet, Shiraz, Merlot, Pinotage and Petit Verdot. It's packed with blackcurrant, spice, cloves and vanillin but has a balanced structure with good depth, fresh berry fruit and fresh acidity. "My aim was to show what South Africa is capable of", said Smit.

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With premium reds there tends to be a reasonably direct relationship between cost and quality. The more any particular red wine costs, the more intensely concentrated flavours it is likely to "show" and, in the same way, the longer it is likely to benefit from cellaring.

Refreshing to find reds like Chateau Roquetaillade La Grange '05 (+193102) $25.99 from the Graves region of south-western Bordeaux - relatively affordable but classically balanced and tasty, too. A typical blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (50 per cent), Merlot (37 per cent) and Cabernet Franc (13 per cent), this beauty should be decanted for at least an hour before serving...or cellared a year or two to really show its soft silky red and black raspberry fruit flavours.

Convinced that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, we seldom credit our own home-grown BC wines with world-class qualities and when the wine is red, we are even more likely to be out-of-hand-ishly dismissive. Bordeaux-like, blended from 92 per cent Merlot with a mere four per cent Cabernet Sauvignon and four per cent Cabernet Franc, Cedar Creek '06 Platinum Reserve Merlot (+573683) $39.90 is as luscious as a bowl full of just-crushed red plums and dates with tweaks of vanilla and caramel and generous sprinkles of dark chocolate from 20 months in French oak.

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