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Sangria

Easy

From the Spanish word for ‘bloodletting’, a good Sangria cocktail recipe bleeds flavour thanks to its base of delicious spice-tinged wine, with added ripe, juicy fruit plus sweetener.
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About this recipe

Although the Sangria has a reputation as a full-bodied cocktail, the perfect red wine base is traditionally more light and spicy in texture and taste. The fruit that goes with this can be any combination of orange, lemon, lime, apple, berries, pineapple, grape, melon, kiwi or mango. In other words, pretty much whatever you have to hand! Your sweetener could then be sugar syrup, sugar or honey. Many Sangria cocktail recipes add brandy too – although it’s perfectly fine to try a different dark spirit such as rum, or even a blended whisky. As if this isn’t enough choice, there’s also a white Sangria version – ‘Sangria Blanca’ – using a wine based on the sauvignon blanc grape and white cranberry juice plus Grand Marnier instead of a white spirit – although you can try gin or vodka to taste too. But the basic Sangria cocktail has its roots in the Sangaree, a red wine, citrus and sugar cocktail which dates from at least 1736 when a line in The Gentleman’s Magazine mentions “a punch seller in the Strand [who] had devised a new punch made of strong Madeira wine and called sangre”. Trade then took the punch to the Caribbean, and then on to the US, where it died under prohibition, but emerged again as the Sangria in the early 60s. The Sangria was exhibited to much acclaim at the 1964 New York World’s Fair – and bartenders embraced it in the following decade. Angelo Vieira created a Sangria Martini at the now defunct Light Bar at the St Martin’s Hotel in London, adding raspberry liqueur and apple schnapps, and then serving in a coupe. But a Sangria is more enjoyable as a more spur-of-the-moment drink, thrown-together when friends have dropped round.

Ingredients for

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125ml.
Blossom Hill Sun-Kissed Red
50ml.
Orange Juice
1top(s)
Lemonade
1slice(s)
Orange
1piece(s)
Mint Sprig
➤ 1.6 units of alcohol per serve

Equipment

1 x
Wine Glass
1 x
Jigger
1 x
Ice

How to make

Fill a glass with ice.

Fill a wine glass with ice cubes.
Add Blossom Hill Sun-Kissed Red wine, smooth orange juice and lemonade.

Using a jigger, measure 125ml Blossom Hill Sun-Kissed Red wine and smooth orange juice into the glass. Top up with lemonade.
Stir thoroughly.

Stir with a straw until the ingredients are well combined.
Garnish with mint and orange.

Place a wheel of orange and a sprig of mint on top of the drink to garnish.

Grab a bite

Get some grub in before or while you’re drinking – it slows alcohol absorption.
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