Cannelini bean and short grain brown rice salad with spinach, red pepper, and grilled portabello mushrooms

Cannelini bean and short grain brown rice salad with spinach, red pepper, yellow raisins and grilled portabello mushrooms.

2 cups cannelini beans
4 red peppers diced
2 cups of packed spinach minced
3 grilled or roasted portbello mushrooms
1 vidalia onion diced
3 (or more!) tablespoons of garlic
1 tablespoon of ginger
1 tablespoon of tamari
1/2-1 cup of yellow raisins
2 drops of liquid smoke
2 tablespoons of lemon juice
1 tablespoon of chipotle (or black pepper to taste)
2 tablespoons thyme
2 cups cooks short grain brown rice
2 tablespoons of evoo/flax oil (or canola).

The wine was Clos de Los Siete.
This clos is an unfined/unfiltered wine from Michel Rolland. Most of the vegetables in the salad were raw, which made this a good pair for me. For a roasted vegetable salad, I might have preferred a more full-bodied wine.