Give me your best, easy sangria recipe

[wambam]

There are recipes? I just dumb wine, juice, and cut up fruit and hope for the best lol.

[residentdj]

I just messaged one of my former coworkers and asked for her recipe....we both were bartenders in an Irish bar in Spain and the sangria she used to make was amazing. (and amazingly strong too) I'll post it if/when she gets back to me....

One thing I do remember her doing - she would make this concoction of liquors mixed together for the sangria (rum & brandy and I believe a few others - maybe triple sec) and keep mass quantities of this in a big jug that way it would be ready to go whenever someone would order a pitcher of sangria. So they would order it, she would pour a bunch of that into the pitcher, along with wine, some fruit and I think she used to put 2 small bottles (like a can's worth) of either club soda or lemon/lime soda. 

Hopefully she messages me back because I actually would like the recipe too....lol

[papie]

Sugar (maybe 1/2 cup?)
a few ounces of rum
a bottle of red wine
about 2 cups of orange juice (I eyeball, maybe it is less than that)
cut up a bunch of citrus fruit
fill the rest of the pitcher with sparkling water

[residentdj]

In the meantime, I found this recipe online:

allrecipes.com/recipe/21425/classic-spanish-sangria/


1 lemon
1 lime
1 orange
1 1/2 cups rum
1/2 cup white sugar
1 (750 milliliter) bottle dry red wine
1 cup orange juice

Add all ingredients to list
Directions

Prep
10 m
Ready In
2 h 10 m

Have the fruit, rum, wine, and orange juice well chilled. Slice the lemon, lime and orange into thin rounds and place in a large glass pitcher. Pour in the rum and sugar. Chill in refrigerator for 2 hours to develop the flavors.
When ready to serve, crush the fruit lightly with a wooden spoon and stir in the wine and orange juice. Adjust sweetness to taste.

[Moe]

Whatever you do, don't use a $30 bottle of wine your friend gives you to make it.

Or if you do, don't tell her

[y4m]

Peach brandy is my secret. Red wine, white sugar to taste, peach brandy (maybe 1 cup/bottle of wine) and slices of lemon, lime, and orange.

[iammalcolmx]

Oct 16, 2015 14:02:47 GMT -5 RamblingRose said:

Plus club soda because I like it a lil bubbly. 

This but I add Sparking Wine.

[iammalcolmx]

Oct 16, 2015 14:25:38 GMT -5 y4m said:

Peach brandy is my secret. Red wine, white sugar to taste, peach brandy (maybe 1 cup/bottle of wine) and slices of lemon, lime, and orange.

Hmmmmmmm, I have Peach Brandy at home. Hmmmmmmmm

[iammalcolmx]

Oct 16, 2015 14:27:40 GMT -5 RamblingRose said:

Oct 16, 2015 14:26:14 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

Hmmmmmmm, I have Peach Brandy at home. Hmmmmmmmm

Peach brandy in a glass of champagne is a great, boozy, bellini.

This is one of the best threads of the day!! Along with our Epic " Who should pay on a date" thread on CEP, LOL!!

[iammalcolmx]

Oct 16, 2015 14:32:35 GMT -5 RamblingRose said:

Oct 16, 2015 14:29:12 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

This is one of the best threads of the day!! Along with our Epic " Who should pay on a date" thread on CEP, LOL!!

If you want to get fancy, make a French 75 with peach brandy. 

Juice of 1/2 lemon
tsp or so of sugar (in the bar I used a packet)
1 oz brandy (or gin or vodka)

Shake with ice till sugar dissolves, strain into a stemmed glass and top off with a single serve champagne. So good. 

I can see we are going to be friends.

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Oct 16, 2015 14:32:35 GMT -5 RamblingRose said:

Oct 16, 2015 14:29:12 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

This is one of the best threads of the day!! Along with our Epic " Who should pay on a date" thread on CEP, LOL!!

If you want to get fancy, make a French 75 with peach brandy. 

Juice of 1/2 lemon
tsp or so of sugar (in the bar I used a packet)
1 oz brandy (or gin or vodka)

Shake with ice till sugar dissolves, strain into a stemmed glass and top off with a single serve champagne. So good. 

H made one of these for me last weekend. I think he used gin, which I can taste in about anything and hate. It was delicious.

[immm]

burgundy
apricot brandy (1/2cup?)
triple sec (1/4 cup?)
OJ (1/4 cup?)
splash of sprite (few splashes)
apples
oranges

[residentdj]

Okay - coworker just got back to me. She said she can't remember exactly how she did it, but off the top of her head:

"We used to mix a lot of liqueurs like gin,vodka,cointreau,a bit of granadina (grenadine),rum...so u put a bit of that mix in the jar full of rocks (ice), a small bottle of red wine an other one of white wine, and Orange juice"

[sushi]

The best I've had was actually in Seoul, and it had a bit of vanilla, so I've taken to adding that.

And, yes, to the champagne for bubbles.

Bonus about sangria or spiced wine? Cheaper wines can be really good. I've even used franzia to rave reviews.