Dress It Up: Cheap Wine into Sangria

Fruit soaked in liquor (apples, peaches, mango, and oranges are all very good in some rum or triple sec), a dash of sugar, wine poured over top: that’s all you really need for sangria. It’s my go-to way to dress up inexpensive wine of either the red or white persuasion in the summer. (In the winter, I like mulled red wine for this purpose.)

Not only is cheap wine dressed up wonderfully by this treatment, but cheap wine is honestly the ideal in this situation. A better quality wine would both be wasted upon sangria and also not add much.

A few tips: be sure to soak the fruit long enough; consider freezing grapes to use as ice cubes since they won’t water down the sangria; serve it with a big wooden spoon so that your guests can help themselves to fruit.

Have any favorite tips for sangria? Share them in the comments.