rioja
IPA: riˈoʊjʌ
Root Word: Rioja
noun
- the region, La Rioja in northern Spain
- the wine (mostly red) of that region
- Alternative letter-case form of Rioja [the region, La Rioja in northern Spain]
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Examples of "rioja" in Sentences
- It was all washed down with a rioja from Spain and a sauvignon blanc from Argentina.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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).
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