rioja

To save my from my humdrum existence he met me at the Chandos for a swift one and then forced me at gunpoint to eat tapas and drink white rioja, which is my new favourite thing.

The One With An Old Pic And A New Pic kisobel 2007

It was all washed down with a rioja from Spain and a sauvignon blanc from Argentina.

Rozanne Gold: Tastes of the Week Rozanne Gold 2012

It was all washed down with a rioja from Spain and a sauvignon blanc from Argentina.

Rozanne Gold: Tastes of the Week Rozanne Gold 2012

The wine here is rioja at its most wonderfully smooth, supple and strawberry-scented, with a certain mellow quality that accentuates the tenderness of perfectly cooked, pink-centred, roast lamb, but with plenty of supporting acidity to cut through the fat.

The best wine and food matches 2011

The brasserie restaurant, the Swan, is increasingly well-regarded and the ground-floor bar menu includes a limited number of affordable appetising dishes, such as Cotswold Legbar poached eggs on toast and a daily savoury tart with chips and salad (£5-£7), as well snacks like scotch eggs and sausages cooked in rioja (£4-£5).

South London's top 10 budget eats 2011

It was all washed down with a rioja from Spain and a sauvignon blanc from Argentina.

Rozanne Gold: Tastes of the Week Rozanne Gold 2012

In the main hall, a packed audience and a splash of rioja do a lot to pull up the mercury; backstage, however, founder Mehmet Ergen admits: "It is not so warm."

In praise of ... the Arcola theatre | Editorial 2011

As roasted asparagus, steaming Castillian soup and solomillo de cebón ibérico (pork sirloin) were laid before us along with warm glasses of rioja, our waiter became our new best friend.

Trans-Iberian: cycling Spain's ancient Via de la Plata 2010

We had all been drinking lots of glasses of poor white rioja at the tapas place around the corner from where I lived which was just a coincidence.

Firm Doings 2010

Another instrumental (I think that's four in all), but when the piano-playing is this good – full, rounded, vigorous, like a rioja viagra cocktail – it would be churlish to deny it.

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