Rioja is a wine made from grapes grown in the autonomous community of La Rioja and in parts of Navarre and the Basque province of Álava. The most widely-used grape is the richly flavored Tempranillo. The discoverer remembers this wine well from occasional otherwise cheerless cloudy Spanish observing nights.
Discovered on 17-9-2003 in Heppenheim by Hormuth, F.