ONE of my favourite days of the year is Super Bowl Sunday, even though my beloved Chicago Bears haven’t been in the final for a year or two. Despite that, I’ll still enjoy the match into the wee small hours with a glass or two of something nice.

So today, we have to go all-American and there’s no better way to kick off the celebrations than by grabbing a bottle of Roederer Quartet Brut NV (Inverarity One to One, £18.49) from the fridge. And when I say the fridge, I’m not referring to the Chicago Bears’ defensive line man, William Perry (known as the Fridge to his friends), who helped to win the Super Bowl in 1985. To be honest, if he’s holding the Quartet, you should let him keep it. The Quartet is particularly good as it’s made by Roederer, one of the best champagne houses, and it’s aged on the lees for two years making a genuine and very tasty champagne style from the new world.

With Geoff’s rack of lamb, try a bottle of Cline Ancient Vines Zinfandel 2013 (Majestic, £15.99). Zinfandel is a tricky grape for winemakers as the individual fruits within bunches can ripen at different rates. This means that unless you harvest very carefully, you’ll end up with unripe, ripe and overripe grapes together in the press. Harvesting carefully involves selecting only the ripe grapes at the right time, which can mean making three or four trips to the same vine – and that's very labour-intensive. This is why you have to choose your Zinfandel producer carefully, and stick to names like Cline, Rodney Strong and Ridge.

After dinner, you’ll have some time before the match starts, so put some beers on ice. To celebrate the magnificent 1985 Bears, why not grab a few bottles of Goose Island Honkers Ale (Hippo Beers, £2.20), which hails from Illinois, and works for Broncos and Panthers fans alike.

Pete Stewart is Glasgow director of Inverarity 121, 185a Bath Street, Glasgow www.inverarity121.com