Fall Sangria Recipe Sure to Delight

This autumn enliven your parties (or tailgating events) with Sangria. Your guests will love this recipe and you will look like a cocktail hero. Not a bad tradeoff don't you think?

Sangria is excellent to serve at events because it is truly hassle free. You can put out the pitchers and let people help themselves. I used to be one of the ones who would think "I can't make a sangria." Yet this is simply not true. These cocktails take about 15 minutes to prep before chilling the entire mixture.

This particular Sangria recipe can be served chilled after 24-48 hours as you would with a "standard" sangria or immediately while it is still warm for more of a "Vin Chaud" cocktail. For those of you who don't know, Vin Chaud is a mulled wine with spices popular around the holidays. This winter we'll be rolling out specific Vin Chaud recipes so stay tuned.

This recipe uses: Cinnamon Harvest Cocktail Sugar  

Fall Sangria Cocktail Recipe(Serves many):

Ingredients needed:

• 1 bottle Merlot (inexpensive is better --> We used 2 buck Chuck
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 3 Apples
• 4 Cinnamon Sticks
• Cinnamon Harvest Cocktail Sugar  

Directions:

1. Chop Apples. You may want to soak the apples in Brandy. This will saturate the apples with alcohol and prevent the alcohol from the wine from entering the apples
2. Add wine, cinnamon sticks, sugar, and apples to a large pot and heat. Do not boil the mixture (or your apples will become soggy). You want to heat and stir so that the ingredients blend.
3. Remove from heat and place in a pitcher (that can withstand hot liquids). Cover the Sangria and let the mixture cool.
4. Place in the refrigerator for 24-48 hours.
5. When you are ready to serve, wet the rim of a wine glass with a fresh apple slice.
6. Apply Cinnamon Harvest Cocktail Sugar   with your Barmaid Drink Rimmer.
7. Enjoy

Well there you have it, a simple fall sangria perfect for entertaining. Here is a step by step instruction manual for making this cocktail. You can download the presentation by visiting Lime Tree Cove on Slideshare. There you can see our other "How to make" Cocktail presentations.

Filed under: Thanksgiving Cocktail Recipes, Wine Cocktail Recipes, Cinnamon Harvest Cocktail Sugar.

Stay tuned to the blog in October as we'll be rolling out Halloween Themed Cocktails and our Halloween party planner. For a preview, visit: Lime Tree Cove on Facebook.

Tim McCaffery is the chief mixologist at Lime Tree Cove. He is responsible for food and cocktail pairing and new cocktail spices.

Article Posted October 05, 2010