This recipe was my Dad's pride and joy. In 80 years of cooking he never found a marinade he liked better. I often make this truly out-of-the-ordinary roast for company and holidays, but we do it on smaller cuts of beef year-round! It's DELICIOUS! You grilling fanatics MUST try this recipe sometime! This is truly my all-time favorite beef marinade as well and has been since I was in high school over 40 years ago. We invariably have this recipe for Christmas dinner, because we are usually turkey'ed out by then. This recipe makes enough marinade for an 8 lb. boneless rib roast, which will (after shrinkage) serve 10 nice servings, with some leftover for the most delicious cold roast beef sandwiches you ever had. I do not recommend reheating this meat, as the meat and marinade loose some of their impact on reheating. But it makes the best cold roast beef sandwiches you ever ate! 
Once I realized this marinade could just as easily be used on smaller cuts of beef, we enjoy it much more often now. I have used it for rib roast (shown top above), lean boneless chuck roasts, sirloin of varying sizes (shown above) and individual ribeye steaks. It's also good on wild game you want to do on the grill. It's a truly unique flavor when cooked over charcoal (not so good oven-cooked though). It is Atkins friendly (just not Induction friendly, because of the wine). Leaving out the wine just isn't an option for this recipe, so wait until the Atkins OWL (Ongoing Weight Loss) phase to enjoy this wonderful dish. I guarantee, this is so good you'll be fighting over who gets the two end slices, just like at my house.
MARINADE INGREDIENTS: (remember, it is not all consumed)
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. paprika
1/8 c. low-sodium soy sauce (1/4 c. if you can tolerate the sodium, I don't though)
¼-½ c. dry red wine (burgundy or claret work nicely but any dry red will do)
1 T. tomato paste
1½ T. coarse ground black pepper (or enough to entirely coat your meat thickly)
DIRECTIONS: Pound the coarse ground black pepper over all surfaces of an 8 rib roast (or sirloin, or chuck roast) using the butt of your palm or the smooth side of a meat cleaver. Use less pepper if doing a smaller piece of meat. Place meat in glass dish. I drizzle marinate every half hour (as often as you can remember to stop and do it) most of a day (minimum 6 hours). Most efficient way to marinate without disturbing pepper coating is to use a basting brush. Do not touch the meat with your brush, or you'll wipe all the pepper off! Hold it over the meat and let it drip off the brush. When surface is soaked, put in refrigerator to marinate between "bastings". I baste hourly until cooking time.
COOKING:
This recipe really is not good cooked inside in your oven. Not sure why, but it just isn't. It seems it is the marriage of the marinade with charcoal smoke that makes this recipe taste divine. You need to grill the 8 lb. rib roast for about 2 hours over medium coals (using a rotary spit if you own one). If you don't have one, like me, just turn the meat every half hour to sear all surfaces nicely. Best if not cooked past medium to medium rare stage. I take mine off when my meat thermometer reads 120º degrees and set it on my cutting board for another 10 minutes to "rest". A piece of meat this large will continue to climb to around 130º while resting. That's usually a nice pink medium-rare inside.
If doing sirloin or chuck roast (around 3-4 lb.) grill about 20 minutes on a side for medium-rare. This marinade really does a nice job of tenderizing a chuck or sirloin roast. Cook rib steaks just like you usually would to your desired doneness.
This recipe always gets the WOWS when I serve it. Hope you folks will try it! I think you'll find you won't be sorry you did! The outside slices are so good we always fight over them at home.
NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION:
The marinade is discarded when you cook the meat. No further basting should be done while cooking as there is now raw meat juice in the marinade. Calculating how much marinade is consumed is difficult. It would also be impossible for me to know how many servings you are able to get out of your roast. So I'm providing the totals for the entire batch of marinade and you will have to see how much it makes and how much is left in the pan before discarding to determine roughly how much is staying on the meat and thus consumed by how many people you are serving. Most of the sauce goes down the drain, to be perfectly honest, so you're getting mostly sodium from the soy sauce and a few carbs from the wine and tomato paste that cling to the surface of the meat (a little more if you get the end slices). The figures below DO NOT INCLUDE THE MEAT.
The entire batch of marinade has:
131 cals, 0.7 g. fat, 18 g. carbs, 4.6 g. fiber, 15.4 NET CARBS (entire batch), 5.5 g. protein, 1070 mg. sodium
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