Fruit Wine Sangria
Your new favourite wine cocktail
Sangria is the Spanish fruit punch you need in your life. Traditionally made with red wine, you can now easily find recipes for white sangria and rosé sangria. They all follow a similar theme, but with various authors making tweaks here and there to make it their own-ish...So I'm definitely not re-inventing the wheel here with my fruit wine sangria, it's been done; but this is how I do it..
I made this to share with friends for a belated 50th and it was a smash out hit! It was just for three of us, so I reckon if you're making this for a bigger gathering, double or triple the quantities. Trust me, there won't be any left-overs!
OK, because I'm sure I'm not alone in getting pissed off with having to trawl through a whole lot of waffle to get to an actual recipe on the internet, here's my recipe, followed by my waffle!
Fruit Wine Sangria Recipe
Serves 2- 4 people. Time 24 hours (if possible)
- 1/2 apple
- 1/2 orange + other half juiced
- 3-4 Tbl canned pineapple chunks
- 1/2 golden kiwifruit
- 3 Tbl brown sugar
- 1/3 cup brandy
- 1 bottle of Straight Plum wine
- Soda water, about 1-2 cups
- ice
- mint sprigs
First up, chose your fruit. Summer fruits like peaches, nectarines, strawberries and grapes can be used, but it's spring right now in New Zealand, and I'm not paying $9 for nine strawberries! So I used apple, golden kiwifruit, canned pineapple pieces and orange. Honestly, this part is really flexible, you can just use one fruit if need be...if so, make it the orange.
Whatever you choose - the trick for the ultimate deliciousness is to macerate your fruit with brown sugar, orange juice and brandy the night before you need it. Or at least twelve hours to make it simpler~ you may be making this for breakfast (Christmas breakfast??) I won't judge!
After that time, add your wine and pop in the fridge, so it's getting at the very least four hours of chill time, but no more than 48 hours.
Just before serving top it up with soda water. Put ice in your glasses that have been garnished with a slice of fruit, a sprig of mint and a straw (unless you like fruit hitting your face when taking a drink!)
Salud!
Let me know if you make this, how you may have tweaked it, and how it went down!
