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. ❋ Kisobel (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It was all washed down with a rioja from Spain and a sauvignon blanc from Argentina. ❋ Rozanne Gold (2012)

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). ❋ Unknown (2011)

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." ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I had a bowl of lobster bisque and monk fish with juniper berries, and a white rioja. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As roasted asparagus, steaming Castillian soup and solomillio de cebón ibérico was laid before us along with warm glasses of rioja, our waiter began to morph into one of the most amazing people we'd ever met. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The vino's pimped by an extensive list (15+ by the glass) focused on biodynamic, sustainable, and organically produced bottles from all over the world, including eclectic swills like a white rioja from Spain's Lopez de Heredia, and a version of their namesake Anfora (aged in earthenware pots) made by Slovenia's Movia, which is stored upside down and opened in water to help remove the plug of yeast. ❋ Thrillist (2010)

March 27th, 2009 10: 15am stanley Jerusalem-you got me there chaver - ok his thumb which is sore is buried in the sand with his head which is in his mouth along with his foot in his toches. btw ribero del duera is better than rioja. and can you tell me what Gitornahtavere! means. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Drink it with red wine Spanish rioja? or a nice dry sherry. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Jamie Oliver did this in his book "jamie's kitcten" with barolo instead of rioja and celeriac mash instead of sede and potato .... ❋ Mrs Frog (2006)

If you like spanish wines, you just have to try this spectacular rioja for less than 7 euros. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That's a worthy cause to mull over a bottle or two of rioja, since Asia is the world's fastest-growing region and doesn't much need development advice anymore. ❋ Unknown (2008)