[ noun ] dry red table wine from the Rioja region of northern Spain <noun.food>
A Belgian supermarket ordered 3,000 hectolitres of Rioja from a Spanish company.
He intends to clean up the loan portfolio and bring private capital into the bank. Others are more drastic: The provincial bank in President Menem's province of La Rioja is being liquidated.
The other dead were from nearby villages such as Rioja, a colonial town where eight people were killed.
The air above nearby Rioja, a town of 20,000, was thick with smoke from outdoor cooking fires as residents crowded the central square.
Hundreds of people whose homes were damaged slept on towels and mats Thursday in the streets of Rioja and Moyobamba, the two largest towns in the affected area about 400 miles north of Lima.
All these dishes will be moistened with good Rioja wine. Information: Meson Chuchi, Carretera Vitoria, 18 Fuenmayor.
The Rioja Gran Reserva Club (managed by Adnams of Southwold on 0502-724 222) is an attempt to expose some of the finest mature rioja to British palates.
Albano Harguindeguy, the interior minister in the 1976 military junta who ordered the arrest and imprisonment of then La Rioja provincial Gov. Carlos Menem, the new president who ordered the pardons.
Members of the main opposition Justicialist (Peronist) Party will chose its presidential candidate Saturday between Buenos Aires province Gov. Antonio Cafiero and Gov. Carlos Menem of La Rioja province.
In two regions, Rioja and Castilla-Leon, it actually wrested control of regional government from the Socialists.
At least three military transport planes carrying doctors, medical and food supplies had arrived at the Rioja airport by Thursday afternoon, according to the government.