RIOJA

rēōˈhä, autonomous region, 1,690 sq mi (4,378 sq km), N Spain, coextensive with La Rioja prov. A fertile region, it is famous for its fine wines, which are produced chiefly between Logroño and Haro in the upper Ebro Valley.

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books on: Rioja  - 336 results

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1.
Spanish Literature, 1500-1700: A Bibliography of Golden Age Studies in Spanish and English, 1925-1980
Book by William W. Moseley, Glenroy Emmons, Marilyn C. Emmons; Greenwood Press, 1984
Subjects: Spanish Literature--Classical Period, 1500-1700--History And Criticism--Bibliography
...cuarta capellania perpetua de Francisco de Rioja ." ArH 40 1964 , 147-56. 8475...utiles para la biografia de Francisco de Rioja." In Melange. . .Andre Joucla-Ruau...93. 8476. _____. "Francisco de Rioja, albacea del tesorero Juan de Asiain Ugalde...
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Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism
Book by Kathleen Ross, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: Argentina--Description And Travel, Argentina--History--1817-1860, Quiroga, Juan Facundo--1790-1835, Rosas, Juan Manuel Josae Domingo Ortiz De--1793-1877
...moving toward barbarism without perceiving it: La Rioja and San Juan. La Rioja, in other times, had not been a city of the first...at the bar, on the bench, in the pulpit. From La Rioja came Dr. Castro Barros, a representative to the...
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Argentina in the Twentieth Century
Book by David Rock; Gerald Duckworth, 1975
Subjects: Argentina--Economic Conditions--1918---Congresses, Argentina--Politics And Government--20th Century--Congresses
provinces of Catamarca and La Rioja appear to have suffered the most. It is...between 1922 and 1937, in Catamarca and La Rioja the stock declined considerably. 42 These...poverty to the provinces of Catamarca and La Rioja. The situation in La Rioja was described...
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The Regions of Spain: A Reference Guide to History and Culture
Book by Robert W. Kern, Chuck Smith; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Regionalism--Spain, Spain--Civilization, Spain--History, Local
hilly Rioja Alta of Harro and Santo Domingo de la Calzada on the Rio Leza and Rioja Bajo on the Ebro. ECONOMY. Logrofio is one of...economic strengths are an important wool region in Rioja Alta and manufacturing in Logrono, which produces...
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Counterfeiting Exposed: Protecting Your Brand and Customers
Book by David M. Hopkins, Lewis T. Kontnik, Mark T. Turnage; Wiley, 2003
Subjects: Brand Name Products--United States, Consumer Protection--United States, Counterfeits And Counterfeiting--United States--Prevention, Forgery--United States--Prevention
...and, of course, the contents. 16 The Rioja region of Spain has developed a deservedly...bottles of cheap table wine labeled as Rioja wine. In the same year, counterfeiters...more than $1,000,000 worth of wine as Rioja. It has become more popular to try and...
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journal articles on: Rioja  - 67 results

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Aicuña Is Not an Albino Town
Journal article by Toño Angulo Daneri; The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 83, 2007
Subjects: Albinism, La Rioja Argentina, Social life & customs, Towns, Travel
...bus ride from Buenos Aires to the almost secret hamlet in La Rioja Province of Argentina. Its Monday morning, and someone has...Its a hundred and fifty-five miles from the capital of La Rioja, and six miles from the closest road-which is more of a pebble...
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The Finance-Growth Link in Latin America
Journal article by Luisa Blanco; Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 76, 2009
Subjects: Economic growth--Analysis, Economic growth--Forecasts and trends, Latin America--Economic aspects
...Levine, and Loayza 2000; Nourzad 2002; Rioja and Valev 2004a). Analyses at the firm...1999; Xu 2000; Andersen and Tarp 2003; Rioja and Valev 2004a; Aghion, Howitt, and...2005), levels of financial development (Rioja and Valev 2004b), and institutions...
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Public Spending on Maintenance and Imperfect Competition
Journal article by Jin-Wen Lee; American Economist, Vol. 53, 2009
Subjects: Expenditures, Public--Analysis, Monopolistic competition--Economic aspects, Public buildings--Maintenance and repair, Public expenditures--Analysis, Tax rates--Economic aspects
...raises the productivity of public capital. Rioja (2002) pointed out that the benefit from...formation. This issue is illustrated by Rioja (2003a, 2003b) and Kalaitzidakis and Kalyvitis (2004). Rioja (2003a) assumed that the depreciation...
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?Desaparicion O Permanencia De Los Campesinos Ocupantes En El Noroeste Argentino? Evolucion Y Crecimiento En la Ultima Decada
Journal article by Raul Paz; Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Vol. 31, 2006
...Santiago del Estero, Tucuman, Catamarca y La Rioja. Para Manzanal (1995, 72) "la Region del NOA...4240 <br/ Jujuy CNA 2002 4061 4922 682 <br/ La Rioja CNA 1988 5374 1823 <br/ La Rioja CNA 2002 5852 2264 441 <br/ Salta CNA 1988 4798...
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The Pedagogy of the Sun Also Rises
Journal article by Donald A. Daiker; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 27, 2007
Subjects: Bullfights--Portrayals, Hemingway, Ernest--Criticism and interpretation, Hemingway, Ernest--Works, Learning--Analysis, Teaching--Analysis, The Sun Also Rises (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...big meal" accompanied by four bottles of rioja alta (249), prompting many readers of...stream. (9) And he would not be drinking rioja alta, one of the lightest and most delicate...but functionally intoxicated by drinking rioja alta with Brett, his vision would have...
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magazine articles on: Rioja  - 95 results

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The Rioja Renaissance: An Old Spanish Wine Takes on New Life
Magazine article by Corby Kummer; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 297, May 2006
Subjects: Wine industry--Industry forecasts, Wine industry--Production processes, Wine--Forecasts and trends, Wineries--Industry forecasts, Wineries--Production processes
The Rioja Renaissance: An Old Spanish Wine Takes on...the rest of the wine world--most notably Rioja, the best-known Spanish wine region...Spain, just over the Pyrenees from France, Rioja winemakers looked to Bordeaux as the closest...
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Pilar Rioja
Magazine article by Doris Hering; Dance Magazine, Vol. 80, January 2006
Subjects: Dancing--Dance reviews
Pilar Rioja. by Doris Hering PILAR RIOJA GRAMERCY ARTS THEATER, NEW YORK, NY SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 Great...is why the annual New York appearances of Spanish dancer Pilar Rioja have always been welcome rituals. The theater in which Rioja...
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The Last Drop: It's Goodbye to Good Old Riojas ... and It's Goodbye from Me, Writes Roger Scruton
Magazine article by Roger Scruton; New Statesman, Vol. 138, August 31, 2009
Subjects: Rioja (Wine)--Appreciation
...Rock of Gibraltar. It is the foundation of wines from Rioja, Valdepenas and Ribera del Duero, three well-known...chocolate and sweet vanilla that is the glory of old Rioja. Old Rioja, like old everything, myself included, represents...
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Spanish Brew
Magazine article by Roger Scruton; New Statesman, Vol. 130, April 30, 2001
Subjects: Wine industry--Spain, Wine--Spain
...tight perimeters like terracotta skirts. Rioja, too, is a French invention. Vines have...the growers moved south. Since then, Rioja has been scientifically made, and is now...than the terroir - for all its merits, Rioja will never take you, as French wines do...
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On the Banks of the Rio Oja
Magazine article by Victoria Moore; New Statesman, Vol. 130, July 30, 2001
Subjects: Italy--Agriculture, Viticulture--Italy, Wine industry--Italy, Wine--Evaluation
...of the Riojan vineyards was a hot one. Rioja, which takes its name from the Rio Oja...complement to the local seafood. And here, in Rioja, the sturdy, fiery wines are more than...And yet, although the winemakers of Rioja have not traditionally embraced innovation...
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newspaper articles on: Rioja  - 952 results

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Rioja Moves with the Times; Clive Platman Falls for the Temptations of the Oak-Aged Varieties of the Northern Spanish Province
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 28, 2010
Rioja Moves with the Times; Clive Platman Falls...Province. Byline: Clive Platman Other than Rioja, most people would be hard-pressed to...undergone long cask-ageing. The fact that Rioja boasts the worlds largest barrel collection...
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Modern Rioja
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 3, 2006
Modern Rioja. Byline: RIOJA It is almost a clichA, but other than Rioja, most people would be hard-pressed to name a second Spanish red wine region. It was Spains first officially demarcated region in 1926, and in 1991, was the first to...
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Toasting Fine Rioja Wine; the Great Escape Travel LAURENCE McCOY Enjoys Wine Tourism with a Fascinating Visit to a Great Wine-Producing Area of Spain
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), August 27, 2008
Subjects: Tourism, Travel industry, Wine industry, Wineries
Toasting Fine Rioja Wine; the Great Escape Travel LAURENCE...Cantabria and into the rolling vineyards of Rioja, and another Gehry creation stands out...reason for our visit: a chance to see why Rioja continues to hold a special attraction...
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SMOOTH ARMADA; Rioja, Noun: Spanish Red Wine. Right? Not Quite - in Truth, It's a Region That Boasts a Huge Variety of Wines
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 18, 2010
Subjects: Wine
SMOOTH ARMADA; Rioja, Noun: Spanish Red Wine. Right? Not...you think of whenever you hear the word Rioja? A mellow, easy-drinking red wine which...Bang on. But what else? Well, the Rioja region in northern Spain in fact produces...
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Dining Style: Focus on Rioja: Part 2 - the Producers and Their Wines
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 12, 2005
Dining Style: Focus on Rioja: Part 2 - the Producers and Their Wines...pops a new surprise and so it is with Rioja. . It has the traditional image of wines...export market. Yet times are changing. Rioja has, in fact, never stood still and...
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encyclopedia articles on: Rioja  - 6 results

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Rioja
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RIOJA reo ha, autonomous region, 1,690 sq mi (4,378 sq km), N Spain, coextensive with La Rioja prov. A fertile region, it is famous for its fine wines, which are produced chiefly between Logrono and Haro in the upper Ebro Valley...
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LogroÑo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LOGRONO logro nyo, city (1990 pop. 121,911), capital of La Rioja prov., N Spain, in La Rioja, on the Ebro River. It is a farm-processing center noted for its Rioja wine; wood and metal products and textiles are also made there...
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Menem, Carlos SaÚl
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...saool ma nem, 1930 , president of Argentina (1989 99). A Peronist (see Juan Domingo Peron ), he served as governor of La Rioja (1973 76, 1983 89). Imprisoned during the 1976 coup, he was released in 1981. He won the 1989 presidential elections by...
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Wine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Vintage: The Rise of American Wine (2000). Other Countries Until recently, sherry was the major Spanish wine sold. Today, Rioja, a leading table wine, is Spains most widely exported wine, and Ribera del Duero, Priorato, Navarre, and other regions...
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Spain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of olive oil and Europes largest producer of lemons, oranges, and strawberries. The best-known wine regions are those of Rioja , in the upper Ebro valley, and of Malaga and Jerez de la Frontera , in Andalusia. Cattle, pigs, and poultry are raised...
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