Definitions for "Rioja"
Keywords:  tempranillo, spain, ree, oak, northern
One of Spain's leading wine regions. Produced some of Spain's very finest red wines.
(Ree-OH-hah) - Perhaps the best red wines of Spain, grown in arid, mountainous Northern Spain and named for the Rio Oja river there. The wines are made from Tempranillo and other grapes, are often aged in oak, and trace some heritage to Bordeaux, from where many wine makers emigrated after the phylloxera scourge of the mid-19th Century.
dry red table wine from the Rioja region of northern Spain