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The best food pairings for white rioja
Posted on April 21 2016 at 09:16
White rioja is tricky when it comes to wine pairing as it comes in such contrasting styles. There are the crisp fresh unoaked white riojas which behave much like a sauvignon blanc and much richer barrel-fermented ones which can tackle more intensely-flavoured fish and meat dishes
Menestra
Posted on May 3 2015 at 07:43
I first had this wonderful vegetable stew - a northern Spanish equivalent of a spring vegetable minestrone - in a restaurant in Pamplona and dreamed about it for several years before managing to recreate it.
Young red rioja and menestra (Spanish vegetable stew)
Posted on June 25 2012 at 06:57
Of all the great food and wine pairings I experienced in Rioja last week this was the most unexpected.
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