About
A beloved cocktail around the world, Spanish Sangria is Spain's most refreshing beverage. Allowing fresh fruit to infuse your favorite red wine ensures the wine is sweeter, lighter, and far more refreshing with even greater depth of flavor! Serve Spanish Sangria at your next garden party or cookout and watch the heat melt away with each sip! It's simply wonderful!
Ingredients
- 1 apple, diced
- 1 orange sliced and quartered, plus 1 orange sliced and halved, divided
- 1/3 cup orange juice
- 1 lemon, sliced and quartered
- 1 (750-milliliter) bottle red wine
- 1/2 cup brandy
- maple syrup, optional, to taste, can substitute honey or other liquid sweetener
- ice, to taste
- sparkling water, optional, to taste
Directions
Step 1 -In a pitcher, add the apples, the quartered orange slices, the orange juice, and the quartered lemon slices.
Step 2 -Add the red wine, the brandy, and the maple syrup to the pitcher and stir to combine.
Step 3 -Refrigerate the pitcher for at least 4 hours and up to overnight; preferably allowing as much time as possible for the flavors to develop.
Step 4 -Fill your intended serving glasses with the ice.
Step 5 -Pour the sangria over the ice in the serving glasses, ensuring to add some of the cocktail-infused fruit pieces into the glasses.
Step 6 -Top each of the glasses with the sparkling water.
Step 7 -Serve the sangria garnished with the remaining halved orange slices.
