Please Help Me!

[poisondwarf]

Please help me solve these two for my sister!
They came from a local written quiz paper and the answers either end with the letter a or begin and end with a:
Keep a tight ship (6)

Here in Brazil, Angela Merkel perhaps agrees to drink the wine: RIOJA...
...followed by more of the same (8)

[Patsy33]

Agenda?

[mallyh]

garnacha ......another wine from spain

[poisondwarf]

Thank you ladies! I haven't heard from my sister yet, but I know she would never have found those answers!
Thanks again - you have made an old man happy!
'Chick'