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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.
Menestra
Posted on April 29 2011 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. This version comes from winemaker Maria Martinez of Bodegas Montecillo in Rioja who I was interviewing for a feature in Decanter. We bought the ingredients together from the market in Logrono.
