word on the street sangria

on a whim this weekend me and lisa - my friend from college - decided to make up a pitcher of sangria based on what we "knew" what was in it... and it was amazing. we basically combined two of our favorite wines - bottles we just happened to have laying around - and then we picked up some tasty fruits from meijer, juice, and some club soda and we had our very own sangria mixed up.

i like how my first legit recipe i made up is a giant gallon pitcher of an alcoholic beverage... aha i guess we all need to start somewhere -

Ingredients

1 bottle Menage a Trois Red

1 bottle Woop Woop Shiraz Red

1 bottle Everfresh orange juice, 10 oz size

2 bottles Everfresh cranberry juice, 10 oz size

½ liter club soda

1 orange, pinwheel slices

½ red delicious apple

½ asian pear

1 jar peaches, strained, but not rinsed

Method

Combine both bottles of wine into a large pitcher, atleast 1 gallon in size. Add the orange juice, cranberry juice, and the club soda into the wine mixture. Cut the orange into large pinwheel shape slices, and dice the remaining fruit into bite size pieces and add to the pitcher. Refrigerate for atleast an hour and serve with ice.

i love sangria. this was a definite success. the menage a trois balanced really well with the woop woop and with all the fruit juices and fruit bits it didn't taste like i was downing glasses of wine... it was like glasses of juice, and yeah, i like juice. and alcohol.