pork & rice dish

[nimhiril]

One of our favorite dinners is a "one-pot" type dish with pork, black beans & rice, prunes & red bell pepper, garlic, onion, thyme, parsley etc. I'm thinking of making it for friends tomorrow night and would like some ideas for wine to serve with and use in the dish (it calls for "dry red wine" and in the past I've used some very cheap and I'm sure rather bad cooking wine variety...so it can only get better from here.) =) Having recently returned to teh Pacific Northwest, I hear we have a lot of great choices here but don't quite know where to start (except with something not very expensive). Thanks in advance for your help!